I will have to say yes, too. It's nice to move up faster than before. With a clean slate, I may hit a 30-35. I'm not the best, but I'm decent enough to be around there.
At least now I know how to play. I lost quite a few games learning, and trying out all the leaders a few times. Now that I'm settled pretty comfortably with one leader (Cutter FTW!) me and my teammate may get fairly high on the new leaderboards. Not like, super-high, like DopedGoat and iEchoic (don't want to get beaten again =P), but high enough for me.
Forge and Anders,
Sitting in a tree.
F-E-E-D-I-N-G
First comes Warthogs
then comes Gunner,
Then comes Gauss in a huge number!
Preferred Leaders
UNSC - Captain Cutter
Covenant - Prophet of Regret