Grand Arena is all based around pitting people of nearly equal power against each other by using galactic power as the standard. This already isn't a perfect system.. but that's not the point here.
I did Grand Arena this week and won 2 battles and tied the last one. When I got my rewards, I got a message saying "your grand arena banners were tied. You lost the tie based on GP". I figured I must have lost because I had a leg up on him, thinking my GP was higher.
It turns out.. in the event of a tie..
the person with HIGHER GP (also known as the person with the advantage)
wins by default.
If the whole idea of grand arena is to match people of similar power..
why would the person with the Galactic Power handicap lose in the event of a tie?!?
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posted this in bug megathread...I'm 145k up in character GP but lost...please explain?
That would make the most sense, right? Explains why we see "the lower one win".
Lowest should win then, or just a coinflip, but that's a different matter.
Second, as others have said, giving the win to higher GP incentivizes roster development. It offsets the incentive to only develop key toons and leave everyone else at g1 lvl1. I think it is a good idea for this reason.
Calculated by only applicable GP, i.e. Character GP.
A simple coin-flip would be better. Player with the least deployed GP (offense + defense) would be better still.