You could place top 100 on free energy, if every member participated very well AND top 100 guilds didn't get matched with top 20 guilds and their major gemspenders.
People in the top of the top don't seem to understand what it's like out on the fringe and beyond. My guild, for instance, has about 10 solid gemspenders who could throw down a few hundred gems per war. We can't compete with the top 20. We get matched up with them and we'll get maybe 10-20k points and no bonus. But if we gem matched with a comparable guild, we can post 30-80k or more.
Just because we spend a collective few hundred bucks, and not a few thousand, doesn't mean we shouldn't get better rewards. An EB+ we got for free two months ago is an insult.