So this is kind of a hard suggestion that involves some legal and money to support but a good way to encourage players to play more competitive at least is to offer the top 3 or top 5 global champ players a cash prize or in game credits it doesnt have to be too much money and im not sure how triangle factory feels about removing some of the cash prize from vrml and moving it towards ranked to encourage more players to play ranked it might get a little hard because you might have to dm people on discord or get people to sign some papers or something im not really sure how it works but fortnite with cash cups and other incentives to boost competitveness i think would help greatly with player count