Before I make a post congratulating the winners I think I should probably directly respond to this. The devs do acknowledge that there are issues with the current leaderboard system, I went into this with a few goals in mind for myself, the main one being trying to boost usage as well as proving to myself partly that this system either works or doesn't. Came out of it knowing without a doubt that it doesn't. They knew from the start though, before I ever held these, but Unova is currently the number one priority, once it is released perhaps the leaderboard system can be revisited, it eventually will its just a matter of priorities atm.
Regardless, the first 3 months were fun when we had some lesser tier matches happening, and I am a little sad that it didn't work out with the current system but, perhaps when this is worked on again it will work out better.
Because it was off the books, just like Community Combat, it was an extension of the CC system where it could be held independently of the normal tournaments we have.