Sniping, payout, allies and enemies.

That's absurd. Obviously if you weren't on the chat, you couldn't know payout times.

There was one person I tried to stop attacking because I got a lot of bump backs from them near payout, so I figured they had the same payout time. But other than that, I just pick battles I can do. Some days it seems I am bumped a lot, and others I am left alone. Arena is arena, and I don't try to make sense of it.