All the teaming situations will be taken case-by-case. We have a very well thought out system to determine whether people have been teaming throughout the entire game or if they are using strategies to take out bigger threats.
The current stats will not be reset for the team SG>
The Solo SG leaderboard will be separate from the team SG leaderboard.
The only reason we changed is because we listened to you guys, otherwise, we would have stayed in 1.8 forever. It would have been much easier to just do that rather than to bring compatibility for 1.7 for SG and BG. Also, Devin stated in his post the reasons why it took so long for us to make this decision. Just be happy that it even happened, why be so negative?