Guild Wars 2

Hey there guys, I wanted to bring some visibility to changes we decided to make last week to the Mistpedia Weekly rules to accomodate for newer/amateur teams and players in the interest of creating a middle-tier tournament series. Starting this week we’re doing two new things differently:

• The cups will no longer be streamed
• Teams that placed in the top two in the previous Sunday’s ESL Go4GW2 cup will not be allowed to participate in the conquest weekly.

The main reason we have decided to make these changes is we wanted to make our tournaments more accessible to lower tier teams and not have to deal with getting thrown up against squads such as The Abjured in their first tournament they ever play in. We hope that with these changes in place, more teams will have an interest in signing up.

If you are interested in playing in the weeklies you can find signup information HERE.

I also talked a lot more about why exactly we made these changes, if you are interested in reading I made a blog post about it HERE

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

~bump. This is really cool! I encourage up and coming teams to sign up and take a chance!

Hopefully the MP police has a way to keep high ranking players from logging alts to farm gems.

I agree Acandis, this sounds like a great opportunity for you

It will be interesting to see if not streaming will help or hurt (less event publicity) the amount of teams that show up.

@Blu,

Good change eliminating the top 2 teams.

I’m not as convinced about the no-stream rule. I personally like watching the matches.

We had 1 year of only ESL weekly on thursday and now recently a big Anet tourny every few months.
Since we now have a real competitive weekly/monthly tournament system, I understand and its reasonable for shoutcasters to focus their time on those. A bit sad to not have anything to watch on thursday but ok.

Also, great idea on the ban.
Top teams should focus on money tournys, and newer and middle tier teams get the gem tournys for their playground.

As an added note, we may revisit streaming the cups in the future, but at the moment one of the key complaints we get when talking to teams was that they did not want to be streamed, which is the main reason why we made this change.

BLUna.7928:

• The cups will no longer be streamed

Noooooo

Flumek.9043:

We had 1 year of only ESL weekly on thursday and now recently a big Anet tourny every few months.
Since we now have a real competitive weekly/monthly tournament system, I understand and its reasonable for shoutcasters to focus their time on those. A bit sad to not have anything to watch on thursday but ok.
.

The ESL weeklies on Thursdays are still being streamed, so feel free to tune in this Thursday at http://twitch.tv/jebrounity

So are those rules just for the NA weekly gems tourny?

Guard.6751:

It will be interesting to see if not streaming will help or hurt (less event publicity) the amount of teams that show up.

Most users, or casual players, can’t stream or do all of that ‘twitch’ stuff. I bet 60% can’t actually.
Yea it’s probably that high.

Flumek.9043:

So are those rules just for the NA weekly gems tourny?

As it says in the original post it’s the Mistpedia Weeklies.