Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, Storm here to inform you of some major changes that are coming to Academy Gaming for both NA and EU over the next month.

For those of you that are new to Guild Wars 2 or are unsure of what Academy Gaming is, read the paragraph below. If you’re familiar with us, feel free to skip over it.

Academy Gaming has been host to one of the most popular weekly tournaments for nearly 10 months now. Our tournaments are aimed at the low to mid tier players and have a strict policy on keeping the higher tier players out of our tournaments. We currently host one 5v5 conquest tournament every Monday evening for EU and NA (one for each), all details of such can be found at battlefy.com/academy-gaming.

With the recent announcement of Pro Leagues, obviously a lot will be changing with competitive Guild Wars 2 as well as our tournaments. While NA and EU differ slightly in rules and participation, we are aiming to stay in sync with one another.

Day change: Beginning on November 18th, we will be moving both our NA and EU weekly tournaments to Wednesday evenings. The times will remains the same for both of these. This decision is, of course, due to the ESL Pro Leagues being held on Mondays which wouldn’t make sense to interfere with.

Eligibility: The finer details of eligibility are still being worked out and will be updated when Pro Leagues come around, but the general ruling as of now is that no team or player participating in Pro Leagues will be allowed to play in AG. Further restrictions may be imposed when more details on the guild leaderboard are introduced (ex. the top 5 teams on the leaderboard are ineligible).

Our aim: One thing I have noticed over the last 10 months is how confused many players are with what is going on in top tier tournaments. With the recent influx of players I am going to make it our aim to change the style of our commentating for strictly AG. This style would include, but is not limited to, a more new-player-friendly approach explaining basic decision making and more or less a less chaotic experience. With this in mind, I hope to make Academy Gaming more true to its nature.

If someone should have any questions or concerns feel free to reply and let me know!

Note: Free Agents will still be allowed for the NA tournaments.

tichorum.2415:

This style would include, but is not limited to, a more new-player-friendly approach explaining basic decision making and more or less a less chaotic experience.

Does this mean less jokefully bashing of rangers and other various non-meta builds and choices?

Just saying, I mean I know its all in good fun, but you guys sounded really critical of certain builds (like the MM necro on monday, or the rabid condi necro a few weeks ago) which some players may take offense to.

nearlight.3064:

tichorum.2415:

This style would include, but is not limited to, a more new-player-friendly approach explaining basic decision making and more or less a less chaotic experience.

Does this mean less jokefully bashing of rangers and other various non-meta builds and choices?

Just saying, I mean I know its all in good fun, but you guys sounded really critical of certain builds (like the MM necro on monday, or the rabid condi necro a few weeks ago) which some players may take offense to.

To me its all in good fun,

For instance 1 AG tournament that nos guest hosted. A team that was working with the Abjured and a team with a ranger were in the finals. Nos and storm made some jokes about the ranger being there but the dude played great and his team won the tournament.

Its like when you watch a sports show and you hear charles barkely and shaq talking about a player and 1 says he loves him and the other says he hates him. Its just good entertainment.

Another 1 is like when the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship and espn analyst named skip bayless picked every team to beat the mavs and through out the playoffs called him soft and that he wasnt a elite player.

Everyone has a opinion and i personally think it be more fun listening wise from a energetic person who doesnt always agree with storm. Everyone loves to be batman but the entertainment side of things needs the joker.

all i want is my llama

nearlight.3064:

tichorum.2415:

This style would include, but is not limited to, a more new-player-friendly approach explaining basic decision making and more or less a less chaotic experience.

Does this mean less jokefully bashing of rangers and other various non-meta builds and choices?

Just saying, I mean I know its all in good fun, but you guys sounded really critical of certain builds (like the MM necro on monday, or the rabid condi necro a few weeks ago) which some players may take offense to.

I get that seems to kitten some people off I guess…. but they saw my build and we’re like what the kitten is he doing with wob…. I guess I just don’t care lol…. Just makes it funnier to me when they question something and then it works.

NeXeD.3042:

nearlight.3064:

tichorum.2415:

This style would include, but is not limited to, a more new-player-friendly approach explaining basic decision making and more or less a less chaotic experience.

Does this mean less jokefully bashing of rangers and other various non-meta builds and choices?

Just saying, I mean I know its all in good fun, but you guys sounded really critical of certain builds (like the MM necro on monday, or the rabid condi necro a few weeks ago) which some players may take offense to.

I get that seems to kitten some people off I guess…. but they saw my build and we’re like what the kitten is he doing with wob…. I guess I just don’t care lol…. Just makes it funnier to me when they question something and then it works.

LOL same thing, the last PvP team i was on. We would do unranked/ranked matches and win 500-200 most matches and people would cry facing a premade and then when we went into the AG tournaments and get smashed against Button Mashers or who ever.

Then the week i said i needed time off another guild member who couldnt make it watched the live stream and storm called the team weak pugs and it was funny true and so it work both ways. They make fun of your build and you do well so they have to take a step back and we went in with typical builds and wipe and they make of fun of us like they should of.

tichorum.2415:

This decision is, of course, due to the ESL Pro Leagues being held on Mondays which wouldn’t make sense to interfere with.

Source please? I don’t remember seeing anywhere that pro leagues were happening only on Mondays.