Academy Gaming will be putting on a 5v5 weekly tournament aimed at newcomers to PvP and less experienced PvP teams who are looking for some even-leveled competition rather than facing top-tier PvPers in ESL cups. This is a complete change from previous tournaments where we only eliminated a few teams from participating.
Free Agents (NA ONLY): Free agents will sign up solo under the team registration and report to our teamspeak (meatyfrog [dot] com:1337) and we will put you into a team and register for you.
NA WEEKLY 5v5 TOURNAMENT DETAILS
Weekly 5v5 Conquest Tournament
Hosted on NA on Mondays @ 5:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern
The first 16 teams to check-in will guarantee themselves a spot
Criteria For Who CANNOT Participate In NA Weeklies
The players who won the previous week’s AG weekly are not allowed to participate
Players that have won a series (best of 3) in the previous week’s ESL cup (meaning you won a round vs a team) are not allowed to participate
EU WEEKLY 5v5 TOURNAMENT DETAILS
Weekly 5v5 Conquest Tournament
Hosted on EU on Mondays @ 6:30pm GMT
No ESL teams/individuals that have placed in the top 3 in the past 6 months in the ESL/Go4 tournaments are allowed
PRIZING
1st Place: 10,000 gems (2,000 per player)
2nd Place: 4,000 gems (800 per player)
Top 8: 5 Mini Llamas per team (1 per player)
NOTES
EU is now being run by Academy Gaming with several different rulings in terms of who may participate
If you wish to get involved with Academy Gaming, send us a PM to get an invite and see what we’re all about!
Questions? Ask us in-game or reply here!
Admins to PM in-game:
Tichorum.2415 – Storm – NA Admin
Brunners.7251 – Brunners – EU Admin
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
Super excited about this happening. The response from stream was amazing and so much interest has been shown already.
Free Agents we have room for you as well! Players who are interested in doing tournaments but do not have a team we are actively helping players form teams for these events.
We have a guild Academy Gaming [AG] set up for players who are either new to the scene or are just looking for like minded players that are short a team as well.
Any Questions Ask us in-game, Reply Here, or check out the daily stream!
Twitch.tv/cooleoben
KGG Community Leader
Academy Gaming
After seeing so many negative people in the game trying to ruin it for others, you have got to respect the people that take it upon themselves to do something for the community. We need more of this!
This will give guildwars2 a whole new way of letting players get to know eachother. Which will raise the community of gw2 much higher and people who didn’t feel that they were good enough to get on a team will now have hope. This will raise the spirits. I think that The twitch community is doing a great job on helping the whole guild wars 2 community and letting players get together in a whole new way.
This is an amazing idea because everyone gets to be apart of the fun. I only have a few close friends online that play this game, and when Karma announced this on stream with you, I was really excited. I can join a team and get better with them over the next few weeks.
I’m also very excited to see more PvP being streamed. The combat in this game with all the different classes is extremely exciting to watch.
This is so exciting! A guild purely dedicated to pvp, with rewards for the people who work hard and deserve it! It’ll be so good to have people in a guild to team up with, and be accountable, rather than feeling to need to kick others from the team for off days. Haveing a guild team makes you a little more accountable and empathic, instead of elitist int eh bad sense of the word. Looking forward to seeing how it goes! Awesome idea!
The amount of positive feedback we’ve received from doing this is more than I had anticipated! Thanks for the support, and hope to see plenty of teams on Saturdays!
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
The preview tournament was a lot of fun. I couldn’t believe how fast you got 100 people to agree to do a solo Q / free agent tourney so fast.
The free agent tourney was a blast and the teams were pretty evenly split for fun games. I hope there’s more that I can sign up for!
Thank you! It was 50, but even so, we got 50 people involved in a solo queue tournament and on teamspeak within 90 minutes. It was amazing to watch and something we plan on doing bi-weekly.
We’ve got some other exciting things on the way, so spread the word!
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
Thank You guys for an amazing Spur of the moment 5v5 Tournament. Held a 90 minute sign up and check in period and had over 50 People sign up for a 500 gold pot. Shout out to all the winners and can not wait till this Saturday.
Good Luck to the teams that have signed up and will be signing up. Can not wait to see you on Saturday!
Twitch.tv/cooleoben
KGG Community Leader
Academy Gaming
This sounds like great stuff, guys. I think it addresses two of the biggest issues – finding a team and the sense that there’s no point in trying since the “usual” tournament winners are just too good.
Looking forward to this starting in EU. Best of luck.
Tournament starts in 90 minutes. Already have 14 Teams registered. Sign up either as a full team or as free agents and get picked up! 1250 gold is up for grabs in this weeks Academy Gaming 5v5 Tournament! Stream will start 1 hour prior to the matches!
Twitch.tv/cooleoben
KGG Community Leader
Academy Gaming
I apologize for that. I was told only a few hours before that Karma would be unable to make it and was struggling to find a suitable host since my stream wasn’t doing so well in terms of my Internet.
I will be sure to update it in the future if it changes!
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
Karma happened to be ill and it was not streamed due to this.
We are putting in a new rule in which any suspicion towards players using alt accounts will result in an automatic disqualification from that event and a permanent ban from all other future AG events. This will be taken very seriously without any second chances. All players that are associated with the rule breaking are also banned due to their knowledge of who they are playing with.
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
Not sure if I should ask it here, but——how has the showdown with DoD impacted you guys? I watched you guys played against Ellusive and I liked all your builds, really brought new air to the meta. It’s a pity that DoD got lucky yesterday
Casual player of all races, classes and genders
Champion Slayer | sPvP Rank 90
Dragonbrand
The team isn’t necessarily associated with AG. I created AG (with Karma, of course) and decided to just take the name with me to make a team for ESL cups. I believe in the future there is a possibility the name will be changed to better suit the entire team once a roster has been established.
DoD is a very strong team and we both had subs for those matches. I don’t think they got lucky, I think they just played better and hopefully once both have our full rosters there will be some good games between us!
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
We are no longer allowing for individuals who have participated in that week’s previous ESL Weekly Cup to participate nor are we allowing any individual deemed as “over qualified” to participate. The tournament is aiming toward lesser practiced teams.
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
I believe it was due to their not being one last week or this upcoming week. I am also at a standstill with tournament funding seeing as my partner has now seemingly left GW2. If I am unable to get funding for them they will no longer be continued.
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.
The nature of ACG weeklies were to get new players into the competitive scene, correct?
There’s other ways you could do it without having to encourage people with gold. Personally speaking, I could care less about gold. With the expansion coming out I’m trying to get better mechanically so I can possibly find a future team. I suspect that a lot of players like me are just looking for possible teams and don’t really even care about the gold.
The nature of ACG weeklies were to get new players into the competitive scene, correct?
There’s other ways you could do it without having to encourage people with gold. Personally speaking, I could care less about gold. With the expansion coming out I’m trying to get better mechanically so I can possibly find a future team. I suspect that a lot of players like me are just looking for possible teams and don’t really even care about the gold.
id join just for the experience. im a willing free agent for when the next one is on!