I’m not as good at wording as everyone else, but I do want to put my thoughts here too.

I think, bluntly, that the level of dedication needed to get elite is ridiculous and actively encouraging people to not rest properly and spend every possible moment here is honestly not right. Of course there will always be people that are that dedicated or simply have insomnia, but it is not right to encourage that and have the bar set so high as if that’s something people should be doing.
As a normal human who sleeps about 8 hours a night and has other things to do, be it work or otherwise it is blatantly impossible for me to get anywhere near elite. I’ll be lucky if I even get bronze. If I remember right, this was a similar issue in beta. As far as I can tell there has been no reworking done to the seasonal events. It is as if you, the developers want the general player base to feel inadequate.

I also feel like the progress bar is. Redundant. I understand we will be unlocking a quest, but does the quest have a reward? What’s the point of the quest aside from potential story? You don’t need to spoil it but I do think being transparent on the reward is important. Especially these “overtime” rewards that we also know nothing about. It feels worthless to work together towards something as a community and not actually know what we would be getting.
This isn’t even touching on how the tiers completely remove the whole idea of working together. Perhaps it would have been better to unlock the items at bar percentages instead. And gain currency rewards for your total points? I believe that would have made the event feel more like a communal effort.

Again, I’m not the best at wording things, so I do hope what I’ve said makes sense. I’m not trying to attack this game, I very much wanted to enjoy this and play the event with everyone.
But I feel as if my efforts are completely wasted because my life doesn’t revolve around this game, (And it shouldn’t. You should be acknowledging that humans need to sleep and have work ect, and shouldn’t spend every waking moment here.) and I have no idea what the potential rewards for succeeding site wide would even be, so I don’t feel encouraged at all, knowing I will miss out on almost every reward and the possibility of no extra rewards even if we reach 100%.