I definitely think the Elite looks miles better in their lace up version.
But firstly the lace up has less color choice, secondly and most importantly those gloves suffocate your hands like mad, I would never ever want to be trapped in laces with those gloves, after experiencing them only the thoughts of not able to take them off immediately haunted me.
So I'd say velcro if you have to get the Elite. Even the lace up looks so good. But using the Elite, you want to take those gloves off for a breather even before your session get to the end, now imagine you have to wait even longer for someone to unlace you, it would be god awful..
Those are some decent/ great gloves for beginners, but you have to make sure you can "reflesh" the air trapped inside every break by taking them off for a breather. And only doing that to make the elite acceptable in terms of use.
Lace up with these gloves just doesn't make any sense, 'cause the material, the padding, the weight, everything is good for beginners/intermediate user only, lace up make them real unacceptable to use in my book really.