Guild Wars 2

It is likely taht season 5 won’t have an option for teams to queue up like they used to. Instead it will be solo/duo only in ranked queue. But what about the guild teams? The ones who sit in discord/teamspeak and want to compete against other teams:

LoL had an interesting approach on this one: Scheduled Team Ranked. I believe it would work in GW2.
Scheduled Team Ranked would allow 5 man premades (only 5 mans) to play against other 5 mans. To avoid population issues and 1 hour waiting times, the queue would only be enabled at NA/EU prime time (like 6pm – 11pm, seperate for both servers). I think it will solve both the soloq vs Team and the full team queuetime issue.

I approve of this idea.

………Not that it matters whether I do or not.

There had been community organized weekly tournaments for a long time.

The problem is not that we don’t have people facilitate team competition. It is that we are totally in lack of teams.

I don’t think there should be any problem organizing such events as a community as long as there is enough interest

Exciton.8942:

There had been community organized weekly tournaments for a long time.

The problem is not that we don’t have people facilitate team competition. It is that we are totally in lack of teams.

I don’t think there should be any problem organizing such events as a community as long as there is enough interest

The only teams that go for community organised competitions are people who want to go pro. The rest of the community, who DON’T want to go pro, also need an outlet to play with their friends. It’s not just about competition. A Ranked Team queue separate from Solo Q with it’s own MMR is required. These people played ranked and will play ranked team queue because they feel that the word “ranked” represents more competition even if they are not going to go to Pro League. They just want to “feel” like they are competing. If they went to unranked, they wouldn’t feel that.

Providing for those people isn’t hard and won’t detract from anything else that the community offers.

Dirame.8521:

Exciton.8942:

There had been community organized weekly tournaments for a long time.

The problem is not that we don’t have people facilitate team competition. It is that we are totally in lack of teams.

I don’t think there should be any problem organizing such events as a community as long as there is enough interest

The only teams that go for community organised competitions are people who want to go pro. The rest of the community, who DON’T want to go pro, also need an outlet to play with their friends. It’s not just about competition. A Ranked Team queue separate from Solo Q with it’s own MMR is required. These people played ranked and will play ranked team queue because they feel that the word “ranked” represents more competition even if they are not going to go to Pro League. They just want to “feel” like they are competing. If they went to unranked, they wouldn’t feel that.

Providing for those people isn’t hard and won’t detract from anything else that the community offers.

If they want for fun they still have unranked, i dont think they will do the same that they will do for ranked. I guess having another queue for only 5 man matches in ranked is better, but not letting them progress in the same leaderboard as a solo player is key, its really unfair. Example, imagine i am super good, and i have another friend who is really good too, but then we have a third guy who is really bad and is a clicker at that. We queue all 3 all the time and we will matches because me and the other guy are really good, so we are carrying our other friend. In the end do you think that guy that got carried by us deserves to be in the top 100 players?
So the best to do would be have separate queues for teams and different leaderboards for teams too.

otetas.9675:

Dirame.8521:

Exciton.8942:

There had been community organized weekly tournaments for a long time.

The problem is not that we don’t have people facilitate team competition. It is that we are totally in lack of teams.

I don’t think there should be any problem organizing such events as a community as long as there is enough interest

The only teams that go for community organised competitions are people who want to go pro. The rest of the community, who DON’T want to go pro, also need an outlet to play with their friends. It’s not just about competition. A Ranked Team queue separate from Solo Q with it’s own MMR is required. These people played ranked and will play ranked team queue because they feel that the word “ranked” represents more competition even if they are not going to go to Pro League. They just want to “feel” like they are competing. If they went to unranked, they wouldn’t feel that.

Providing for those people isn’t hard and won’t detract from anything else that the community offers.

If they want for fun they still have unranked, i dont think they will do the same that they will do for ranked. I guess having another queue for only 5 man matches in ranked is better, but not letting them progress in the same leaderboard as a solo player is key, its really unfair. Example, imagine i am super good, and i have another friend who is really good too, but then we have a third guy who is really bad and is a clicker at that. We queue all 3 all the time and we will matches because me and the other guy are really good, so we are carrying our other friend. In the end do you think that guy that got carried by us deserves to be in the top 100 players?
So the best to do would be have separate queues for teams and different leaderboards for teams too.

You are pointing out something I already agree with. I am simply asking for a SEPARATE QUEUE FOR TEAMS who want to play ranked. Neglecting Ranked Team Queues (THAT ARE SEPARATE FROM SOLO QUEUERS) because “pro players don’t play ranked as a team” is so mind-numbingly short-sighted, not even the appropriate concave lens would save you.