I understand that a player who does not get to participate in a GAC round due to odd number of participents and they should be compensated. But I do not get why it has to be assumed that they would have won each battle with a perfect score of 64. I think total points for defence + total points for each battle win (with 5 surviving units with full protection & health) + points for winning the GAC round, is a fair compensation.
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It is not assumed that they would score this. It is simply the easiest way to tabulate the points. Rather than assign a value that could become outdated, they just pull max points and call it a day.
They would win the round but they need to fight and that would make it fair tbh.
Because that's more difficult and resource intensive? Having to fight an AI would be interesting though. It auto fills a bunch of relatively low gear synergy teams.
The problem with both of these ideas is that it opens the door for competitive players to complain that they were cheated out of banners by RNG, as they could have undermanned squads and scored more than 60. So rather than arbitrarily determine what the "average" player could score, giving out the max is the most fair to the players who will get a bye.
Not a reasonable comparison, since the bye players already got their 1000 points for winning the round, while no one else has yet. If they're only 500 points ahead now, they will soon be 500 points behind.
5 divisions have 1 person with a bye and the other 6 have no byes.
On the one hand, you get max round points. On the other hand, you completely miss out on a round of feat progression. It's a double edged sword.
There almost always has to be a bye. There isn't really an elegant solution for the situation. This may not be perfect but it is reasonable.
They don't short out a whole GA bracket. They just run 1 GA bracket with less people. At least I assume that from the fact that there isn't any division with more than 1 bye.
That isn't actually maximum points. Maximum points at this point would be 3599. Those are just people doing really well.