# De-register for Guild Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback\ **Created:** [April 17, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/de-register-for-guild-wars/69612 "2021-04-17T00:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jonathan/32/66724_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jonathan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/de-register-for-guild-wars/69612/3 "2021-04-17T11:29:45Z")
> [@Tibo](#): > > So you deregister and the game fills up your slot with another guild, 2 GWs later you want to come back, you register and your bracket would have 11 guilds. Who do you want to knock down just to preserve your ranking? Tbh, I’m not really seeing any contradictions. The game already has a system for determining who goes into which Bracket when a Guild doesn’t register and then returns, and I’m not suggesting any changes to that. Each Guild is given a ranking after each GW, and I imagine (I don’t know for sure/exactly how it works) they’re just slotted back in at that ranking if they’ve sat out any wars, with Brackets adjusted accordingly. After all, if all the Guilds below got to move up one place for the next GW, having them (or the newly-ranked Guilds in those positions) move back down one place once the returning Guild is slotted in makes sense. The idea is that the Guilds below get a chance to play in a higher Bracket, get (potentially and marginally) better rewards and then potentially move up more easily than would otherwise have been possible. If the De-registering Guild comes back and is an active competitor in their Bracket, I don’t see that as a bad thing or undeserved. Realistically, if they come back and score poorly, I’d like to see them drop down appropriately. If one of the other Guilds moves up above that ‘preserved’ ranking, they wouldn’t be affected by the re-insertion, either, meaning they’ve had an easier time moving up than if there was an additional Guild clogging up the works there that they had to climb over. I hope that makes it a little bit clear why I don’t think it’s a contradiction and that it does actually make a difference, particularly if it’s more than just one guild. It’s also possible (not something I’ve tested or watched for, and may be old) that an unregistered guild will still fall down Brackets anyway: > [@Guild Wars and Rankings](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-wars-and-rankings/24903/1): > > Now that IS JUST A STARTING POINT, and here is where the tradeoffs begin to happen: > > 1. New Guilds (never played a GW before), will try to find an appropriate position down in the lower 25% of the table > 2. Guilds who missed one or more weeks - you will drop some brackets… more brackets the more weeks you miss > > Now because we need to insert those guilds into the system, that means the whole 1/2/3-promote, 8/9/10-demote thing will become more volatile as we move further down the rankings… for example if 5 returning guilds insert above you, you could finish 6th and still end up dropping a bracket. > > […] > > The other tradeoff is, of course, now it’s slower to climb back to where you were if you skip some weeks and drop a bunch of brackets… so if your guild is serious about guild wars, my suggestion is that you’re better off joining the GW and getting 0 points, than just not registering and potentially falling quite a few brackets down. In that case, the question becomes irrelevant (as the ranking wouldn’t be ‘preserved’). The fact that joining and getting 0 is encouraged is a whole other issue… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/de-register-for-guild-wars/69612)._