Guild Wars 2

Not sure if anything like this is already planned or in the works but I just wanted to voice a suggestion for a way that these new features could be implemented into CAs to improve tournament play experience.

Ready Checks: The new ready check before games start is great and could also be utilized in my opinion in CAs. This could be accessible via a new server command (/readycheck or something similar) and would bring up the same pop up to remind tournament participants that games are ready to start and they should ready up. I’ve noticed that players often forget to hit the button in it’s current implementation, so I think this could be a good way to “poke” the players to get games rolling.

Map Picks: I’ve always like the idea of teams being able to decide the order of maps in a tournament setting, but unfortunately with the current way CAs work it’s extremely clunky and the whole set of maps needs to be determined before the first game begins. I think if an option was added to CAs to allow maps to be picked via this new voting system at the end of the current game, I think that could add another bit of a dynamic to the way a tournament set progresses, as certain teams play much better on specific maps. This would also allow TAs to set rules for how the maps are decided between rounds.

As an example, a vote could be done at the beginning of the set with the captain of each team submitting one vote for the map they want first, and from that point forward the loosing team could just have themselves vote for the next map, or they can have a higher number of players vote for the map they want next (That’s just an example of a format TAs could use and dictate on their own, copy+pasting the map vote system into CAs would suffice without changing it’s mechanics).

You forgot the most important thing: Evon Gnashblade Representation Buttons are still not usable in PvP servers. You have to leave the arena, activate the button in HotM and rejoin again when you want to represent Evon Gnashblade during ESL-finals and it just ran out. Unacceptable.

Keksmuffin.1450:

You have to leave the arena, activate the button in HotM and rejoin again when you want to represent Evon Gnashblade during ESL-finals and it just ran out. Unacceptable.

#EvanForPresident

But on topic – yeah, the CA should get some love too through the new features.