Easiest PVE Shard for high placement?

I just realized that due to the new PVE scoring structure, I no longer need to do huge grinds at the end, so the points are mostly front-loaded.

So I don’t always need to choose S2.

Do you know which shards I’m most likely to get the highest placement with the lowest score?

I also know that if I don’t play for a while, I’ll be placed in the n00b bracket, and that will help for the next pve. Good times.

Try slice 1.
But don’t join until 12-14hrs after it has opened.
I usually get top 50 doing this. I dont Play much past the 25cp progression reward

Go to the MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions forum and search for a thread that says Bracket size. Here is the current one for The Hulk. You can wait to see when a bracket fills and then join the fresh one for better placement odds.