On the 24/7 servers the standard points system is meant to be 6 points for scrub up to 770 points for beast. For some reason on some servers it has a smaller points system, only recquiring 550 points to obtain a beast rank. This was noticed recently and should be fixed soon. To precisely answer your question, the amount of points needed was never lowered, there were just a select few servers that for unknown reasons have apparently always had a lower amount of points needed and this should be fixed soon. You could have a time faster than a beast because they play other mapd whereas you only play that 1 map, points are based off of time on all of our 24/7 servers not just 1 map, which means someone with a beast rank could be slower than a semipro on a given map. Hope this answer your question :smile: