A new personal best!
But my goodness it was rough to get there. It reminds me of the old days of trying to grind past Gold III into "Diamond hell".
The increase in end-of-season rewards is big a jump from Champ I to Champ II, strangely more so than the jump from Champ II to Champ III. I'm sure this has been brought up by others plenty of times before. I guess folks up in Champ III are more busy trying to place in the top 50.
I've been playing a lot as of late because it's the sort of game that you can quietly play while video conferencing ... which I have been doing a lot of. And I'm sure many of us are doing it too.