If you used handicaps to equalize the entire playing field you would not accomplish the battles in 3 days. So in that scenario every player would have to battle every player in Rag style to see who gets into the top 150 (whatever amt they said) to then move forward on determining the top 150 of all servers. Of course not all would join, but a significant amt would. In tennis they have top seeds to cut down on the # of matches needed. Guess you can compare stats, games, sports, whatever forever if you look for it.