Personally, I think that all of this concern for "sniping" isn't really fair. I mean, it sounds to me like a legitimate strategy, albeit a poor one. I'm not very good at MA, and haven't played for several months myself, but I do remember using similar strategies when I did. It wasn't that I was trying to knock somebody off, I was just trying things out because my previous strategies weren't working either. Having unexpectedly hard opponents seems like a totally fair game dynamic, especially in the first couple of rounds where u have actual human opponents. Of course, maybe I don't understand the problem at all, but I would say that if someone has found a way to climb the rankings more so than they had previously, then maybe they'll eventually figure out a better strategy and climb higher. Now duplicate accounts are another problem entirely, and if they are using said "sniping" strategy to make it easier for their "multi" then by all means take that option out of their hands.

Michael