Guild Wars 2

Starting Monday 7th of September, teams will have to bear in mind the following new way of working:

• Team captains must use battlefy chat to organise their match with the opposing Team’s Captain. You can enter your match-up chat by going to the current Tournament Battlefy Page > Brackets > Your Current Matchup (click on it) > scroll below to see the chat. Both captains are expected to use this chat. Reason why is the following new paragraph.

• Teams will have to utilize their own servers. Once you contacted your opponent’s captain by using the Battlefy chat, you decide between eachother who’s arena you’re going to use. So if Team A doesn’t have an arena but your opponent does, you’re going to use his. Other way around same.
  However, if you both do not have an arena at your disposal, please contact an AG admin ASAP, as we can offer you an arena to use. Bear in mind that this can bring some delay depending how many matchups and arenas we have at the same time.

• While you’re organizing who’s arena you’re going to use, we also expect you to submit the score yourself on the exact same page the Battlefy Chat you used to contact eachother. Team Captains should do this. Keep in mind submitting on YOUR matchup, so always doublecheck you’re on the right page.

• Last but not least, before you’re starting the match, we expect both teams to check accountnames of your opponent’s team and compare them with the list they signed up with, to see if they match. You can do this easily by right-clicking the opponents name > Report > name will present itself.
  If you see any accountname not signed up in their team but present in your arena, please contact an AG Admin ASAP

Arena Settings:

Password: Yes
Team Size: 5
Score Limit: 500
Time Limit: 15
Respawn Time: 15
Starting Players: 5
Respawn Type: Individual
Spectators: Yes
Ready Button: Yes
Autobalance: No
Lock Gear: Yes
Lock Skills: Yes
No Progression: Yes
Force Respawn: Yes
Tournament Commands: Yes

Map Rotation:

• Forest of Niflhel
• Temple of the Silent Storm
• Legacy of the Foefire

PM the following contacts for any additonal questions:

• Terrorsquad.2349
• Foz.9865
• Brunners.7251

Monday 7th of September Tournament page: http://battlefy.com/academy-gaming/eu-ag-weekly-28/55e4cb7130e9d66900fdac06/info

Why the downscales on the tournaments, did you loose staff?
A shame that AG is not evolving into a more professional scale but rather the opposite.
As I would like to compete I will probably not be able to help administrating the tournaments but I can ask around if this is the reason.

Let there be no doubt – AG is an excellent initiative, I am simple surprised that it hasn’t received better support from A-Net with permanent servers and a form of reward for the hosts to keep things running (in case this is the reason of the amateur’ish downscales).

NSKL.3174:

Why the downscales on the tournaments, did you loose staff?
A shame that AG is not evolving into a more professional scale but rather the opposite.
As I would like to compete I will probably not be able to help administrating the tournaments but I can ask around if this is the reason.

Let there be no doubt – AG is an excellent initiative, I am simple surprised that it hasn’t received better support from A-Net with permanent servers and a form of reward for the hosts to keep things running (in case this is the reason of the amateur’ish downscales).

Has nothing to do about Staff, let this be clear.

Its more about having a smoother Tournament in the long run, when everyone got used to the new system. So as admins we only need to jump servers (or use our own as we always did for teams who dont have an arena) to check out how it goes.

It will be quite chaotic first week, but surely will be clear for ppl later on, as we expect players to be mature enough to understand what they need to do.

If not, they can always ask and we’ll help along the way

Is Academy Gaming downsizing? Is that what this is?

Velimere.7685:

Is Academy Gaming downsizing? Is that what this is?

No, we’re still the same Staff and same RO16

We’re just trialing a new system on Battlefy where teams can chat to eachother straight away in their matchup.

If ppl are getting used to this system, the Tournament will go faster and smoother and the Stream/Shoutcast should start sooner aswel

The new ways of working went very well yesterday and most teams had no issues!

If you still have some questions before signing up, please dont hesitate to contact us