A couple of months ago, I predicted that the clan ops would have terribly skewed scoring and would be worthless to even consider a "competition."

http://community.callofduty.com/message/205421425#205421425

Turns out, I was not only right, but I only scratched the surface of how bad it would get. ELITE is now giving the TOP 100% (which is everyone) a bronze medal. Enlist and you get bronze. WTF. Are you serious? Why does every clan deserve XP if they can't make the top 50%? This is the last straw IMO. The clan ops have been bad enough that they don't even consider Hardcore players to be worthy of ops. Now, everyone gets XP, too. If that's the case, the last small semblance of competition has flown out the window. Of course, it's not like anyone could check to see exactly how many clans have gotten gold on every op (HBI has), because there isn't a clan tracker. Hey, that would have been a GREAT idea... but you didn't think of it. There are no "standings" or "rankings" of any sort. ELITE, as a website, is the next best thing to useless... Well, honestly, it IS useless. It's like you are just trying to pander to the lowest common denominator customers enough that they'll stick around for ELITE 2.0. Right. Not buying it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... (Hardcore gamers are seriously pissed at you and the entire CoD franchise right now.)

The other thing about this is... There are no leaderboards to look at for these most recent ops. So, even had I wanted to (and I did), I couldn't go back and analyze the scoring for the last clan op. 25000+ clans enlisted. ELITE describes how to get bronze now... "Bronze: All remaining clans with participants whom scored." (Should have said "who" there... terrible grammar ELITE on top of your other boneheaded mistakes.) So it SAYS that only clans who SCORED are receiving bronze. Oh yeah? And where's the proof? I want to see the leaderboards. If even one clan gets XP for not participating, it invalidates the entire point of clan ops. If all someone has to do is enlist to gain XP, then it isn't a competition, it's a joke. Oh, wait. It is, and has been the entire time, a joke. There is no "fixing" of ELITE. It is broken beyond salvaging. And that's even before you had a chance to mess up Clan Challenges. I'm disgusted with what we've gotten for our money. This isn't competition, this isn't worth the money or effort, and God knows the game itself really isn't that good.

I would like you to get your stuff straight, Beachhead. I know that Activision and Infinity Ward stuck you in between a rock and a hard place. You have done well, all considered. The concept of ELITE was awesome. I bought into it. But what you have delivered isn't enough, not by a long shot, for this customer. I am a hardcore CoD gamer. I am a clan leader. I want the clan ops and challenges like they were promised to us. I don't care how much trouble they are... proper clan ops and clan challenges (of ANY sort) should have been your number one priority this entire time. If you wasted one second worrying about Lone Wolf ops, then you did the entire ELITE membership a disservice. The reason given why there have only been core ops is because most players play core? Ok, fair enough. Then why on God's green earth have you not put your number one priority on clan ops and challenges... because that's what the VAST majority wants. But I'm pretty sure it's too late to change or save anything. And Activision and Infinity Ward will realize their mistakes when ELITE 2.0 rolls out, and four people pay for it. Enjoy!