I like it. Maybe I've been playing tournaments too much to notice it's been there, or maybe its new, but either way a much needed feature and hopefully a sign of future direction on the realities of rank here.
Which leads me to an observation - just searching all standard, sequential PUBLIC games with major or higher, there were a respectable 60-ish games, but something like 50 of them were Circus games started by Klobber with no one else in them yet. Only ~10 legit high-rank public solo pick-up games out there!
Just struck me as typical of how hard it is to find players of rank not hunting in packs (I should speak... I've been playing mostly teams as well lately.) Seems to me that's another clear indicia of a problem with the scoring formula that's been talked about before... and why clans and tournaments are the lifeblood of this place.