>>76827892Nips really love their artificial ladders, huh. This would result in extremely uneven/frustrating matchmaking in the more populated ranks like Fujin.
I just found this, which pretty much confirms your theory about Blue being an artificial plateau:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/1cpn4ae/a_brief_look_at_the_tekken_8_metagame_may_2024/Anyway, it's good that we have this data, because if we're comparing to T7, it's better to compare percentiles than ranks.