Mid Tier MM/Teams: The Best Incentive to Play High Tier?

[Mahrs]

Every time I load into a mid-tier game these days, I am reminded of why I almost never, ever load into a mid-tier game these days.  If I have to because "the grind is life," yeah...but, otherwise?  I totally understand why the elite part of the player base does it - they can carry their team through the "easy pickings" for savage beat downs.  However, for a regular guy like me...just brutal, brutal quality of play. 

[KalishniKat]

I love mid tier. Much much better gameplay that high tier, less gimmicks like radar, less smoke from everywhere, real ships not made up science fiction super ships, less salty [edited] players, all in all a much more enjoyable game playing experience.  Seems like, in my opinion anyways, I can handle being uptierd in my 5s to games with 7s just fine, but when you move up to tier 6 and start facing 8s the crap gets deep. 

[Wowzery]

I much prefer T5-7, get into a T8-10 or T9-10 match, wow, terrible.  I can only stand to play one of those games every couple of days which makes grinding through the upper tier BBs a pain.

[Kapitan_Wuff]

I used to gripe about T5/6 kinda getting the short end of the stick. And I still don't like the protected MM responsible for this, but really, not that big a deal I still have t5/6 ships that I enjoy playing and being bottom tier isn't that bad. More opportunity to rack up big XP/Credit, and nothing feels better than being top of your team while bottom tier. 

[Shoukaku_Kai_Ni]

I don't understand. If you don't enjoy mid-tier then don't play it. If you need to get through it then free XP or suffer through it. 

They're different gameplay, low to mid to high tier.