User blog comment:Care Level/MVP Status/@comment-5556439-20130824203601/@comment-9593635-20130824204746

• "The reason why its not smart is simply because you already have people who obviously contributed most to the game."

Well, yes; the idea was that they should be rewarded for it.

• "Also, people could amass large amounts of MVP points by pub-stomping with friends in Lower MMR."

That's already an existing edge case: people can climb ranks by doing the same thing, already. But we're not working for edge cases, here: we're targeting the mainstream audience.

• "It would be really easy to abuse and the concept of a "MVP" at the end of a game is pointless to begin with considering that its a team game and not one person singlehandedly EVER wins the match by themselves."

No one's suggesting that the MVP won the game by themself; no basketball ot football MVP would ever make the claim that they could've carried the season to where it ended without their teammates. MVP is simply recognition for the player who gave the most from their team.