# How are brackets decided (bug?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Created:** [May 15, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-are-brackets-decided-bug/24157 "2017-05-15T09:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 141
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkness/32/2712_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-are-brackets-decided-bug/24157/141 "2017-05-30T06:02:46Z")
I respect your tenaciousness, but I expect you’ll be disappointed here. I find the lack of any meaningful response by the developers very interesting. They don’t seem to have any intention of clarifying this issue. I think the “best” you can expect is something like this… > [@Strange Guild Wars bracket movement](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/strange-guild-wars-bracket-movement/23815/64): > > Okay! I am here! I have some information for you all. Those that have filed support tickets will likely have seen this already. The bracket calculation for Guild Wars is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, how well each guild performed in their bracket (standardized by the general difficulty of that bracket), the position each guild finished within their bracket (positions 1 & 2 are awarded small bonuses, while positions 9 & 10 are penalized somewhat), as well as (to a … Which is essentially telling us nothing that would explain the strange demothions… ☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-are-brackets-decided-bug/24157)._