Guild Wars 2

“We don’t want to split up our community through too many queues.”
Let’s not put in a 2-team Solo and a 2-team Premade queue.
Let’s put in a mixed Free queue with a 2nd Free queue that requires 40 players to start.

……LOL?

Its the same two ques that exist now.

Just without a ticket cost.

Only reason for it that i can see is they commented they dont know how to make the map rotate. So this is probably to keep more than 1 tourny map in circulation.

Yeah what daydream said. They already said at the last state of the game that they were figuring out the best way to do the map rotation (map vetoes, etc.). I think it’s also because they feel the 3-round tournament structure has merits, e.g. it feels like you accomplished more by winning a 3-round tourney than 3 straight single rounds.

Whether that is true or not we’ll see, but I suspect this is another endeavor by ANet to gather data on player preferences and if their data shows nobody queues up for the the 3-round tournies they will probably remove it.

To me it seems like a lot of the current sPvP structure are just placeholders until they get better systems in place. What I eventually think will happen, say 1 year down the line, is that hot join will be replaced with custom servers, the “ladder” will be the 1-round tournies, and then your MMR will qualify you automated 3-round tournies which then qualify you for regional tournies similar to what ANet did with GW1.