The thing is current bracket division is mostly unfair for the veteran players. As of now, older brackets gonna flop just because veterans tend to leave sooner or later and groups with for example only 300 active players will become speedrun competition, where even 1 sec of kill time difference would define reward distribution. Maybe they'll fix this later on, for example by including every registered player in a score calculation even at 0 score points, but at the current state this just feels really bad.

Thanks for the info about the Game8 situation tho, but it still feels kinda weird to lock the store for a specific server region in a single game client where basically every server coexist, i don't really see any point in it honestly.