Gaming the System?

I'm under the impression guilds will be matched up based on how they have been doing ("paired against a similarly ranked guild"). The Archibald(7*) reward is based on win count, so win count seems to be a high priority.

To maximize win count, could players (with teams of 6*s) drop their guilds towards the later matches (avoiding the tougher battles) and join terrible guilds that will have easy match-ups for the rest of the way? Wouldn't this make getting wins easier, and therefore make getting the 7* reward easier?

Would this work?

I don't think so. We only have a certain number of battles to get the certain numbers of wins, which is enough to put pressure on.... pretty much everyone.
Plus the top teams don't like the idea of losing either....

If you throw free $1,000 worth of cash at their faces, they might want to lose their matches for ya...

There is a timer to prevent guild hopping.

Which only prevents 1 battle. So they would still have room for 2 helps before joining on their guild on the final battle.

Checking things though, 2 wins isn't such a BIG help, considering that the cards require a big number of wins (mind you that only the 4* is require less than 50% of victories considering total attendance).

They could also do something as simple as pair you based on the wins of the member of your team with the highest number of wins. So you hop to a crappy guild, but have 20 wins under your belt...and then get steamrolled when your bad guild fights another 20 win guild.

Or they hopefully reset your win count to zero if you leave your guild. That'll prevent people from guild hopping.

^ This