LB banners

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Previous Halloween event the players that ran the event map for hours and hours and managed to get their names on the LB within the positions of receiving the Red Balloon banner and as reward got their banners as promised. But.. Turns out that these banners were all trade-able. This was not mentioned in the Halloween guide thread.
The reason for this thread of somewhat of a question which is the following: Will the same go for the winter event, the coming LB events, Top Player LB, and so on?
I see a LB banner as a reward for the amount of effort, time and dedication put into something, wouldn't making future LB banners trade-able counteract this?
I hope that this was just a one time thing or that next time that STS plans on making another LB banner trade-able that it's mentioned on the same day as the event goes live or possibly ahead of time.

What do you guys think about this all? Is it fair to those who invested so much time into getting a spot on the LB for the banner not knowing that it would be trade-able?



*Thank you STS for listening and implementing this.