the top 24 people on the leaderboards aren't necessarily the best players, only those who spend a lot of time playing game after game on the servers. Many of those have confessed to quiting before dieing so they don't lose points and thus stay high up the leader boards. What you would probably enjoy more is seeing players with high win/play ratios face off, although to make this fair they would need to have played a set number of matches to qualify (otherwise you'd have people with a lucky early couple of wins and a high w/p in with these top players...)