Our player base has gotten better and this league has 6 teams while the last 5v5 had 7. The 7 teams led to 6 more players starting. With so few starting spots available (30) many teams don't have "weak links". Kills are harder to come by now and apart from the 2 outliers on cwaters team, a 1.19 k/d is league-best while the average k.d is a .98. in previous leagues a 1.19 k/d would be
NWCL 1 1.19 = 7th best k/d
2nd NA 6v6 1.19 = 14th best k/d
1st NA 6v6 1.19 = 12th best k/d.
NWDL S2 (5v5) 1.19 = 7th best k/d
What about the lowest K/D. Due to us having a league 2 many of the weaker players haven't played a single round in the league. Only 2 league 2 players have even played in league 1. The lowest k/d in league 1 this season is .55 from maple. He is nearly .2 lower than anybody else in league 1 and since I removed outliers in highest k/d, I will do the same with the lowest k/d. Without the outlier, the lowest K/D in league 1 is a 0.7. While a 0.7 is not great, For it being the worst K/D in the league it really isn't too low. Now I will compare this 0.7 K/D to past leagues while removing .2 K/D outliers.
NWCL (5v5) lowest K/D was a 0.38
2nd NA 6v6 Lowest K/D was a 0.43
1st NA 6v6 Lowest K/D was a 0.33
NWDL S2 (5v5)lowest K/D was a 0.43
All of these are nearly half of our current lowest K/D. So due to risk bringing it back to 5v5 and removing a team, a 5v5 with 6 teams has been our most competitive tournament in terms of K/Ds With our Best K/Ds and Lowest K/Ds becoming much closer.