Guild Wars 2

Forget the whole “Challenger League” idea, it has been flawed since its inception because of the many issues surrounding the guild leaderboard.

The fact that a terrible group full of bunker Mesmers queuing at an odd time of day can easily outpace a solid group of experienced players playing during the middle of the day (because they face pro league teams who are ineligible for the challenger league tournament anyway) is ridiculous.

The fact that you could do terrible, create a new team, and instantly reset your MMR is terrible.

The fact that you could do great in ranked queue and quickly make another team and another team and another team and another team is crazy.

The fact that a Great team abusing everything possible could simply make multiple teams on multiple different guilds, get them really high up in MMR and sell off spots to much less deserving individuals is terrible.

The fact that pro league teams that keep making teams make the leaderboards horrendous to read is just awful.

I propose a sign-up and play tournament that will give hope to many teams a week (or a couple of weeks) after patch rather than a system where Arenanet will have to go carefully through the leaderboard, attempt to pick out teams that are not disguised or sold pro-league teams, and eventually end up with one decent team, and several middle of the night FOTM farmer teams. One or two large tournaments AFTER the patch will have much better potential at stirring up the pro league teams with actual talent and will give hope to many other players who have teams but due to circumstance never had the time or correct amount of bunker mesmers or willingness to exploit the many things to exploit to grind through ranked queue.

If Anet does continue with their plan to pick out 5 teams from the leaderboard, To the teams who are chosen, I would be willing to buy one of your team spots off you (in game money ofc) or hope that if a member cannot make it, I can come. I play necromancer (Certain to be VERY op), DH, Bunker guard, tempest. I have competed in around 50 ESLs(got my lavish llama to prove it) multiple tournaments, have 11,000 games played, am obviously legendary league/rank 80.

Hopefully, Arenanet makes a good decision and changes it so I, and many others, have a chance to take our own teams into pro league rather than buy a spot/beg our way onto one.