Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33905330-20180828091653/@comment-36299871-20180828205810

SM Racer is the only one who picked up on the higher participation. I've not been playing this weekend so I missed how many people participated in the end but I'll take SM Racers 300,000 as an guide. Under the old system (assuming 100,000 participants):
 * Group A, 0.1% - 300 * 100 = 30,000
 * Group B, 4.9% - 100 * 4900 = 490,000
 * Group C, 5% - 59 * 5000 = 250,000
 * Total gold = 770,000

Under the new system (assuming 200,000 participants)
 * Group A, 0.1% - 300 * 300 = 90,000
 * Group B, 0.9% - 100 & 2900 = 290,000
 * Group C, 4% - 50 * 12000 = 600,000
 * Total gold = 980,000 + all the rest for the lower levels

So the only losers are some group B players. 200 of the top group B players get luck and get promoted to group A. 1,800 of the bottom group B players got demoted to group C.

I used to place around 3,000 so I'm one of the ones who have dropped from group B to group C, by a whisker. You can imagine how happy I am about it.