Guild Wars 2

I really miss the paid tournaments because the game was very competitive back then. However the system was heavily broken: tickets were very hard to earn and rewards were only good for the winner.

Nowadays GW2 lacks a competitive scene. There are less than 20 people playing this game competitively and I really think this system could rebuild the scene.

To make the system work I believe the following changes are really needed:

- 5 ticket requirement. You get 2 ticket by winning team arena and 1 ticket by winning solo arena. You also get 1 ticket from the daily PvP achievement.

Back then you had to play 5 whole free tournaments (3 round each) and win them to get one single ticket. The system I propose encourages people to play team/solo arena and it’s also easier to get the 5 tickets. It’s also possible to get them when your team mates are offline, so no more afkers in the mists.

- Each tournament has 3 rounds and 8 teams participating

- Random map pool: Nifhel, Foefire, Kyhlo and Temple.

Self explanatory. It would be really nice if you could also ban 1 map when you submit your roster.

- Paid tournaments are only active at peak times. For example, from 19.00 to 24.00.
This is needed because we want the player pool to be as big as possible. Also, thanks to the time restriction you are not spliting the community in team arena and paid tournaments. If the playerbase is still too low, paid tournaments could be limited to monday, wednesday, friday and sunday.

- The two teams that lose at 2nd round are invited to spectate the finals

It would be really sweet to see the finals and learn from the best players. Hopefully this system would help average teams to improve.

Also, spectator mode would finally be used outside of hotjoins. The 10 spectators restriction is not a problem here because you are only inviting the 2 teams that lost at 2nd round.

- Rewards:

1st position: 5 gold, 5 tickets and a dragon chest (rank 80)
2nd position: 2’5 gold, 3 tickets and a phoenix chest (rank 70)
3rd/4th position: 50 silver, 2 tickets and a shark chest (rank 60)

- After a paid tournament ends a notification appears to everyone’s chat with the names of the 1st and 2nd position teams Bragging rights are important as well.

With only one exception (Ban 1 map) everything I proposed would be very easy to implement as we have seen it before.

I’d love Anet to reimplement this kind of tournaments to encourage the creation of more teams and the revival of a somewhat competitive scene.

Dead gaem is dead.

8 team tournaments were terrible dude. Sorry to say it.

Dead community is dead.