I would like to see automated tournament in gw2, similar to the ones from gw1 (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Automated_tournament).
What is my vision?
I know that there are the ESL tournaments, but it would be nice to have something that addresses the needs of a bigger part of the community.
There could be different tiers within the tournament. For example the tiers A, B and C.
The “A” tier would be for the top players, winning here would give the biggest rewards.
The “B” tier is for the players that want to play competitive, but are not on the highest skill level.
And the “C” tier would be for newcomers, that would like to be in a higher tier one day, and for teams, which just want to play competitive without having the time/potential to play on higher tiers. So it would be rather for casual players. Obviously this tier would have the lowest rewards.
When should the tournament take place?
Maybe it would be better not to run them every day at start, maybe just once/twice per week, or every 5 days? So that it is not allways on the same day and players that can’t play during the week/on weekend can participate too?
Rewards
I was thinking about a low amount of gems and maybe some materials or BL-keys.
I have the feeling, that there is already enough gold in the economy.
It would of course depend on the tier and the frequency of the tournaments. If it is once per day, the reward should probably be a “Black Lion Claim Ticket Scrap” for the winning team in tier B. And for a weekly tournament maybe a “Black Lion Claim Ticket”.
It should not overreward the winning team! I would like it to be more something like a side effect, while you have fun during the tournament.
Choosing tiers:
Now how to prevent a decent team from farming tier B?
I would like something like a “mini league”, that means if you are top 3 in tier A you will have to play next time in tier B. Same for tier B.
Based on the amount on teams per tier, the “worst” x teams could be placed in a lower tier. Otherwise one day every team will play in tier A.
That would be account based.
How it works:
Place a new NPC in the Mists, or use an existing one to register. You form a five man party and press “join for an automated tournament”. The player who does this is the team leader. The player names are shown in a list. All players on that list are prevented from entering ranked or unranked queue for the duration of the tournament, unless the get knocked out before. The team leader an 3 other players who registered for the tournament have to be in the party! The remaining player can be switched if needed (Substitute). 1 min before each match, there will start a timer, at the end of the timer the team leaders have to be in a party of 5. If they are not, the team is kicked from the tournament and the other team wins without a fight.
Please let me know that you think about this and if you like it, please support the idea
If you don’t like the idea, please tell exactly why you don’t like it.
Try to be friendly and constructive!
EDIT:
Rewards could also just be more Glory points for each match. It should not be highly rewarding to prevent people from abusing it.
But you should receive about the same “amount” as you would receive from playing normal ranked matches + some additional rewards for the top 3,5,10… teams per tier scaling per tier of course. So that the top team from tier C is receiving less rewards than top 4 from tier B, which receive less than top 4 from tier A.
The more you progress within the tournament, the higher the reward, so you could, it could even just mean the “reward track gain” scales with it.
But no rewards for the loosers in tier C, except the usuall rewards for loosing a ranked match.
If you want, you could even think about Leaderboard points for the top teams, as an additional possibility to gain them.
Automated Tournaments!
(edited by Tranassa.4968)