What Are The Best Strategies for getting weaker tourney servers?

"Xioborg;816090" wrote:
You look at the region your server is in e.g. Europe, what time people will typically join e.g. school closing, end of work day, work lunch.. noting the multiple time-zones in the region, then the probability curve of the rate that they'll join and when the mega teams are likely to join and form a view of the optimum time window. I've done this four times now and can happily report that the strength of the shard was completely random.

Sometimes I got top 5, others top 100.