The best assessment was actually another poster on the forum (forgot his name so can't give proper credit). He said: [i] The Best feed on the Rest....and the Rest get pissed. [/i]

I also think your shark analogy is strong as well. These sharks tend to be streamers where they trade carries for subscription/$. Those carries are like remoras.

...and Trials seems to slowly becoming a competition that is dominated by "professional" gamers of one sort another.. Either streamers, podcasters, YouTubers, or "video game media" people IOW, people who get paid to play these games in one fashion or another. Directly or indirectly. Only Trials seems to think its a reasonable thing to do to pit a streamer who plays Destiny for 8-10 hours a day up against a weekend warrior who is lucky if he plays 2 hours a day..... ...and calls that "competitive". That's like putting Steph Curry and LeBron James in a game two-on-two against couple of rec center basketballers.