I chose to go to Bracket XI because I figured that's where the biggest rewards would be, since it would attract the biggest accounts with the most CP. I would much rather play Survival Mode manually against other humans, but the prizes and entrants for the manual brackets are so small compared to automated.

I think if the SPS is split between manual and automated, then we would see higher participation in the manual brackets! Even the players in the manual brackets right now end up playing against liquidity bots because there aren't enough manual players.