Allan Pike

Ladder is a Marathon, tournaments are more equal to a sprint. Having endurance over 100's maybe 1000's of games, possibly playing the same deck/class is way more difficult and draining for me personally.

Each have their challenges. The marathon of ladder increases your sample size and allows the cream to rise to the top. This is somewhat true of tournaments as a player can optimise line ups and bam strats but it’s far more likely someone could highroll 1 tournament to qualify.

So Ladder probably just edges 5 top 8s for difficulty rating? Both require a very good understanding of strategies and meta over a longer and sustained period of time than a single tournament win.

I agree with all you said which just means we should have what we had in 2018, something between both :)