blood games are cool, but really it only caters to the top 20 glads imo.
thats totally true, and thats why i promoted the idea of doing blood game type of events for the lower brackets instead of the insane amount of arena fights.
The demand for rapid development came when more managers wanted to join the blood games and thought it unfair that only the veteran managers could join. Speeding up the development will not help that situation anyway. One blood game will never have room for everyone, and it will always be a limited amount of gladiators that actually can win that one game.
The reason that everyone wants to join the blood games is of course a combinations of the prizes and what i think its the ultimate challenge for gladiator dueling, pitting your strat againts 1 other strat.
Why not let everyone actually have a chance to experience that and not just an endless row of random fights in th arena.