High tiers players tend to help each other if they are from the same server/group in matsuri. Doesn't necessarily mean they do it because there's sone kind of fear for the mods, it's just that if you keep another problematic player busy then for you too is easier to get better outcomes. In the end, in top fields, we all meet more or less the same people and we all know who we can generally beat and who we can't, so if somebody i can't beat gets engaged by somebody that can beat him, then i can beat somebody else he can't beat as a consequence, so we both get an advantage.

P.S. imho mods should have an advantage, yes, but not in the server they had their first account. What i mean is that by being a mod you should be granted a moderare whalish account in another server that can't give advantage to their main one. About gl i think they should get paid in seal scrolls, not in coupons. Yes, in the end is the same thing but in concrete the difference could be not slight.