Guild Wars 2

I’ve looked at the rankings and don’t get it. The servers at the top are tiers 1, 2 and 3 it seems to me, it doesn’t seem like the top ranks are all tier 1. Can someone please explain how this all works.

Because you can only have 3 Servers in each tier at a time (Its how you get your match ups) IE: for T2 its SoS, FA, and YB the current match up, if the points system wasnt so horribly broken you may expect so see FA go up to T1 sometime and and T1 server come down, however because the “glicko” point reward system for winning each week is so broken this isnt the case.

Most of T1, and T2 are locked meaning the servers arent going to change positions anytime soon.

Tier 1 = Server Rank 1+2+3
Tier 2 = Server Rank 4+5+6
...
Tier 8 = Server Rank 22+23+24

You might as well call "Tier" for "Match-Up" instead, so "Match-up #1" would be BG+JQ+TC.

Servers – individual ranks (1,2,3, etc).
Tiers – consist of servers. Tier 1 is server ranked 1,2,3 etc.
Leages – consist of tiers. Gold is 1-6, Silver is 7-15, Bronze is 16-24 (or 26 if EU).