[Deidara837]

I think I wouldn't mind cumulative for D8 but:
a) It doesn't affect me
b) There just aren't enough people to run elimination at the moment

For everyone else, I'm vehemently against cumulative scoring for most of the reasons Mike posted in his first paragraph. It also punishes players for not getting AAAs on all of the early files making it even harder to catch up to the top contenders. If you don't have super competitive scores on the early rounds and they get locked in you're kind of just stuck in a hopeless hole for weeks later on which probably feels worse than actually getting eliminated in due time.

The only option I could think of to make that less punishing is to leave the previous rounds open for improvement, but logistically that's not great for a tournament setting and as mentioned earlier makes it more of a league, and even with that change I would still be against cumulative.