An argument could be made for designating (each new iteration of) green as the competitive server, since that content comes with a clean slate and increased difficulty after each expansion.
Green began with a race for server firsts, prenerfs, and best of the best titles. And while blue has enjoyed much of the same years ago, a lot of its shelf life can be attributed to alt armies and old feuds. Blue players wanting experience that competitive atmosphere again could always box, one character on green and one on blue. Blue has been around far longer than the trilogy itself, serving as the beta/test server, with unclassic features that must have been a PITA to eventually remove; that places an asterisk next to most player achievements. It has seen many different versions of easymode, including level 1 epics, all/all soulfires, etc.
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As far as p99 history goes the charm nerf has to be one of if not the biggest. On p99 during the first 6 months or so after launch charm had a set duration. Enchanters and necros were literally solo farming multiple camps with ease with timers set for their charm breaks. It was not uncommon to zone into lguk do a cc and see a solo chanter or necro claiming frenzy, am, and lord as one camp and holding down with ease at lvl 50 in scraps for gear corpsing their lore drops and continuing to hold the camp for hours sometimes days at time when fbss was sellin for 15-20k a pop, SSoY - 10-15k a pop, SMR - 10k etc (I am guilty of this). I made something like 100k in ~24 hours at one point which was a ridiculous amount at that particular time.
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For this reason and others, it isn't as impressive to see a max level player in full BiS on blue as it is on green server.
This isn't an argument for rotations on blue, but if the top guild did hold competition in such high regard, as has often been the claim, cheating would not have been allowed. The moment any participant cheats, those who quietly benefit from it are also quietly opposing competition, more so than anyone openly arguing for a rotation, as they are merely rotating trophies between their guild members.