# How do brackets and ranks work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Created:** [November 21, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-do-brackets-and-ranks-work/67235 "2020-11-21T22:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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Guilds were placed in brackets by their current trophy count at the time guild wars first started. Since then, they have been moving up and down the brackets after every war, depending on their placement in the bracket and the hidden algorithm that handles the movement between brackets. Devs never want to publicly confirm much about it, but basically the top 1-3 guilds in the bracket will move up, the bottom 1-3 guilds will move down. Here’s an old post on that algorithm: > [@Guild War Brackets - Need an Explanation](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-war-brackets-need-an-explanation/56731/11): > > @MarcAnton This is the last official note (July 2017) that was provided by Sirrian regarding the bracket movements. There seems to have been some adjustments due to guild wars changing monthly but it should provide you with an indicative idea of how the bracket placement works. Also it will explain the “exception” at higher brackets as Fourdottwoone was trying to highlight. The path up the brackets is long and full of guilds that seem to have no business being in that bracket. Many are guilds who used to be active, but aren’t anymore and are on their way down the bracket ladder. There’s a few threads around on the subject, here’s the most recent one: > [@GW Dead Guilds and Moving Brackets](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/gw-dead-guilds-and-moving-brackets/67188): > > Can we do something about the dead guilds in GW? I get it, my guild isn’t in a low bracket, but there’s a difference between the top of the bracket at several hundred thousand points, and bottom with 0 or just a couple thousand. This is after a year of climbing (or is it descending since it’s going to bracket 1? Anyway…). We were just shy of our one year anniversary before we even lost a GW. How are these dead guilds not at the worst bracket? How is it after a year of winning GW we’re… What bracket are you in and how fast are you climbing? There isn’t much you can do to get higher faster unfortunately. Go for the highest score possible and hope for the best. Good luck! 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-do-brackets-and-ranks-work/67235)._