Just a thought, would it be easier to limit the amount of team changes a player can do? From where things stand, wouldn't it be kinda awkward explaining to newcomers as to why they will get punished for... scratch that. New players wouldn't be so sharp as to abuse the natural cycle to skyrocket their rank.

I kinda have a question in my case... I sometimes pop into the server for i dunno, short periods of time, like 10-40 minutes, depending on how laggy I am and how long I can tolerate it. People who know me see my normally >100 ping shoot up to 300 and then scale up toward 800... I think this is stretching it, but I want to clarify this in case some crazy person pours punishment on me when I connect and spawn 3 or 4 hours later..... o.O