That may be the worst part. After they said tributes were bugged. Just to be a smart ass. I did a bug report on the PvP system at that time. Assuming the devs had this system on purpose and knew it scaled against end gamers.
But instead of making it better in anyway. They made it worse.
So now we can only hope that enough of the community actually cares enough to say something about one of the worst inbalances in the game.