It's kinda obvious that pandawow won't do 'free rewards' when most of the classes have SOME sort of buff abuse to by pass the required Rating. And in total of getting high rating, you mostly also clutch through and win for fearing and falling down the map, giving your team more chance to win.
And Elite items was available long time ago. They deleted the Npc's window items.
Also pandawow already doing r1 r2 r3 etc etc rewards. Seems to be enough for me.
Anyway, getting 2.5k or higher is a bit easy at the mid season. Since people are only interested in the ladder at start season and end.
For me, personally it's a great idea, but really bad to do it now or 2 or 3 months. Since most important abilities doesn't work on certain classes, which makes it have lower survivability. Gamebreaks. And those abilities won't get fixed till russians look at our bug reports.
Meh, as i said.