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FYI, I just noticed something strange that just occurred in the Season standing. It occurred sometime between an hour before the Season 6 War 5 Round 1 Prep Phase starting and 3 hours after the Battle Phase ended.

Our guild dropped from 27th place down to 70th place despite taking the maximum number of points in Round 1, 4080. Because the rankings are so tight that is not the surprising fact. The surprising fact was the following 2 facts.


 * 1) We dropped 40.1K points further behind the 20th position Guild.
 * 2) We went from being 17.1K points ahead of 51st place to 20.1K points behind 50th place.

This implies to me that 40+ Guilds each spent over 40K medals each in a 4 hour window of time. Now it could be argued that it was Guilds spending their 28K medals from winning their War 4 and and extra 12K medals that they had been each been saving up. But I think it more likely 1 of 2 other scenarios:


 * 1) Either it was a psychological domino effect of teams seeing other teams moving up the ranking and them wanting to keep up and spending their saved medals. Even if they were not spending them wisely or to great affect.
 * 2) Or a new exploit has been found and a large number of teams know what it is and are starting to take advantage of it.

Anyone else notice this rapid spending of medals (movement of Guilds)?

Any other thoughts as to why or how it just happened and happened over such a short period of time?

I have previously believed that all of the Guilds shown are real Guilds and not Bots to (like in the daily tournaments) created to drive up the cost of placing in the Season positions. But maybe I am totally off base and this is a Developer Bot driven scenario?