If BGs are going to reward premades pubstombing PUGs

[Celldweller-heartseeker]

It will very difficult for an unorganised random group of players to defeat an organised premade group.

As it should be.

and because I know I’d be slaughtered if I just queue up and hope for the best.

Actually not as much as you’d think. I queue’d up solo 99% of the time in Vanilla and MOST of the time you ended up against a full pug of people doing the same thing. The premade stomp happened every 8-12 runs and you just waited dead in your GY for them to realize you aren’t impressed by them humping your corpse so they finally cap the 3rd flag or take another base to end it.

Precisely this. Premade teams were very uncommon in vanilla, relative to today where it seems to be every other in AV and 75%+ in WSG

[Celldweller-heartseeker]

Well, they would need to add deserter to dropping the popped queue so there is an incentive to play rather than dodge. Even then many would dodge.