Or make the rewards for finishing 1st relative to last not be 20 or more advanced refine runes to no refine runes for the last place. Make the game a bit fairer but still reward with winners without overtly punishing the weaker players

Sage has gotten worse recently because the lower powers stop playing SWB being they either get booted for low morale and don't get any reward from this event.

Instead of booting out the loser for low morale, you should boot people who always win for having too much morale. Let them get 10 wins and then kick them out with max rewards. Then let us others rack up enough kills. Everything in this game is set up to keep low power people down and benefit the 1%. Just terrible. There is not social justice in this game.