I am only referring to the line of:
I doubt any other shard can compare.
Our shard chat has 63 people in it (not counting those who regularly climb but are not in the chat). Players regularly drop past 30 each day. Anyone who drops past that point will have to average 5+ wins to take top spots.
Each hour has it's own rotation and what not, but many if not all take the top spots at PO every day. So yes other shards do compare on the needed win average to climb daily.
From my understanding the reason for this was activity of the group as a whole, not due to any group keeping others out of the top edge. The level of activity you are noting is not extreme by any means, but yes it is made worse by the the way it has been organized.
