Guild Wars 2

This is something I never thought of till recently. So the other day in my 3rd match (ranked) of my total, we were 4vs5. Both teams managed to reach the 500 points at the same time from the cap points tick. However, my team was declared the loser as I received 500 rank points.

So my question is, how exactly does the system declare the ‘winner’ in this situation? Did it pull like the entire player points from both teams and just picked the one that had the most points overall? In this case, the team with 5 players?

Or did both teams get a “loss”? If so, how does the system work in this case? Did it simply calculate the team points along with the loss? Like, both teams had 500+- points, so both teams will get the minimum amount of loss points as the system calculated the match as being really even?

I could’ve done a bit more research on my own, by checking exactly how many points I lost, asked a player of the other team and so on. But I was pretty annoyed at the time that not only were we 4vs5, but that we even got a loss when we actually “won”, so I just continued playing trying to suppress the match in my dark inner corners of my mind :P

If the game ends in a 500-500 score, then the victory goes to the team with the highest scoring player.