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I think you nailed it with the matchmaking exploit. I haven't yet tested if you keep medals if you are kicked (I will, in a few days), but I have reasons to believe the medals are non-transferrable. But I do confirm that a lot of the guilds in top 100 are "very lucky" earning near max points every war. There is even a guild which earned the absolute max for the last 3 wars in a row. We do not see the entire picture yet as some of them haven't yet started spending the medals they earned. I also know that buying medals for gems is not a factor in the competition, at least at this point in the season.

As far as matchmaking goes - I do not currently believe that guild names make a difference, but their powers do. and as long as one placed enough of controllable ghost-guilds above and below itself to distance from the real competitors that would work exactly as we see. Main player uses the middle guild to always win and joins it at the end of the season to earn the prizes. Main player cannot be part of that guild since that would cause guild power too high to stand up the ghost-guilds above and below it.