Guild Wars 2

There is a small community that likes to host 1 V 1 servers, however how brilliant would it be to have a 1 v 1 Colosseum game mode where perhaps you fight up to 10 contestants.

You fight one player then once defeated you move onto the next opponenent. the player defeated is knocked out of the match. You earn points based on each player you kill moving up, maybe a time frame can influence how much points you earn each round.
You may spectate once lost to continue to watch the ongoing matches, but the round is almost continuous until the last player wins/loses.
There may come an issue where some players dominate 1 v 1, but that is how Arena net can also monitor balance.
Moreover players must understand that a player who is ultimately good with his profession is not overpowered however, lets not confuse skill with ease.
Thanks, – Ethereal Phantom

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Double Elimination Tournaments already does this except it’s done on 2-3 maps to segregate players and Twitch streaming.

Not to mention there are indeed inbalances in 1v1 play. The game, argumentative, shouldn’t be balanced 100% on 1v1 because that would make every other 5v5+ gamemode imbalanced as well as limit build diversity; for some classes only 1 build works eifficiently in 1v1 than others.

Lastly, It would take way too many resources/development time to add this new gamemode. We would rather have a 3v3 gamemode or a Stronghold update/evolution revision, instead of a complete overhaul of class balancing that would literally take 2 years because ArenaNet is understaffed.

There’s a plethora of items that needs to get done. I rather this idea wasn’t one of them.

I’d much rather have a 3v3 map that encourages people to split up for 1v1s for whatever reason.

People will play it is all I’m saying. It will teach players how to rotate their builds properly too.