Talk:Leaderboard Event/@comment-30229492-20170808160849/@comment-27957947-20170808200139

I think the groups are determined by a average of all your past LB scores. The old 'place low and get an easy group next time' doesn't happen anymore. After several LBs of that pattern back in the beginning, the groups leveled out. In my groups now, the final scores of the top 12 or so are usually similar and close.

I do think there are either some ringers intentionally placed in each group by S8 to encourage spending (ugh), or it may just be that someone who does score a lot more points than everyone else on their board don't do that in every LB. Maybe they just really like that particular grand prize and went all out? Maybe they skip/score low in the LBs where they don't like the dragons, which would bring down their overall average? Plus, when one person breaks out the boosts, others start doing it. That can lead to 2-3 people having super high scores.