The first idea is to basically make a Snow Wars Shop. A currency drops from winning battles of Snow Wars and found nowhere else. (Maybe take out the fest currency to compensate). By winning battles, you can use this currency to eventually buy some of the items that very rarely drops otherwise. It's just depressing to spend so much time on Snow Wars to only get a couple drops and only one that's particularly rare. Make it where you still have to work at Snow Wars but by doing enough you don't have to rely as much on RNG being kind. The prices could be a bit more friendly as well than the fest shop since people have actually worked at Snow Wars and can be compensated for their time and effort.

The second idea is to make it where you can see how many battles are needed to be won to get to the next stage. I don't know how many other people might feel this way but I find it frustrating when you're not a really big fan of Snow Wars and you're slowly trudging along for either the hope of an avatar item drop or working towards the task and you have no idea how much further it is until the next tier. The amount of points from wins jump around a lot so you might think that you're not too far away to slowly crawling along.

Support for sure on the first suggestion!

For the second, I would love something like that, even if it was just something like 'current points toward tier 1: 475/600'. The only problem I could see with saying how many fights there are until the next tier is that losing rated battles also loses you points. Also, near the tier benchmark, you can have either the current tier's difficulty or the next one up. The current tier gives you a pittance in points (10 I think?) and the next one up gives you 50 points, so how many fights you still need to do can be based somewhat on rng too.

It would be my selfish wish that it could somehow calculate the minimum that you need depending on the points you already have. So it would recalculate if you lost and needed extra.

Definitely throwing support behind idea 1! Drops for snow wars haven't been great and I would prefer a seperate snow wars shop currency over more frost tokens. Especially with frost tokens readily available in the fest zone.

As for idea 2, it would be convenient but if you know where the tier starts and ends it's not a massive issue. I kind of agree with Mika on that one. But if its done as a point system i.e. 300/600 points required for next tier that would work ^^