As mentioned before, SWAT and Snipers are under the Team Slayer playlist. They mentioned it before on a Weekly Update. They said it had something to do with being more noob-friendly and helping halo newcomers at getting to know each gametype.  They'll give them their own playlist at some point. Both playlists had a huge fanbase and I think team SWAT was the most popular playlist; ignoring them would be like ignoring MLG and they said so themselves.

no im a fan of playing the map and getting the power weapons. If you can kill a guy all the way across the map with the starting weapon, whats the point of having power weapons?

Calling the Ar less skilled is n't even an argument.  There's more to skill that just shooting headshots. Having a feel for a guns strengths and weaknesses is important.

I'd rather have variety in the game than the same thing over and over.

They should ignore MLG; talk abou turning the game into an annoying camp fest. They're already talking about banning certain AAs, and of course DMR starts.

It is not removed, but it falls under the Team Slayer playlist. Usually you have the option to chose one of the gametypes when the voting between 3 different types of Team slayer is on. I'm glad I at least get a little bit of SWAT and Team Snipers but they have to get their own playlists and it should be added to Arena (ranked). Seriously every time I play SWAT or Team Snipers now it's just way to easy. I was level 50 in both and I just loved playing against the best. We kinda all knew each other, it was like our own little community. I realize ranks are reset seasonally but at least I will be up against some competition when it's added to Arena. Plus I want the option to play it every time I want, now if you want to play it you just have to hope it's being chosen.

I'm fairly sure it's free for all. All the times I played it in the beta, it was free for all.

Yeah I use pretty much any weapon that I feel like for the best situation seeing as i'm good with every weapon.

But really man theres no argument the ar doesn't take much skill compared to the dmr.

Wait what?

There are a massive amount of people that associate themselves with MLG that are to put it frankly retarded. The forums there have some of the most stupid people I have ever had the displeasure of reading.

But at the same time there are some very highly intelligent people involved with MLG and any high skilled player can tell you that MLG settings bring about the most level playing field and allow the players with most skill to win. MLG settings do the exact opposite of promoting camping just by the fact that they turn radar off. 

Also just because the DMR is precise doesn't mean the power weapons are useless. Going for snipers and rockets to name a few are essential or else you will get spawn killed to kingdom come.

Team headhunter is under the objective playlist.

are you saying that one hit scan weapon needs more skill than another hit scan weapon? There's a  fallacy there somewhere.  The biggest difference in the two weapons is the fact that one can register headshots. Skill isn't only head shots.