Guild Wars 2

So the blog post says that if you place 1st or 2nd in a January ESL weekly you are invited to the qualifier, and this is how 8 teams will fill up the qualifier.

1 problem. The same 2 teams can consistently place 1 and 2 each week. Meaning the qualifier would only have 2 teams in this situation.

For NA if the same 2 teams sweep the weeklies there is effectively no qualifier necessary for our region in the WTS event.

Looking forward to this being clarified as it is extremely likely to happen at the moment.

Edit:
The initial scenario has been answered. The invites go to the next teams in line that haven’t yet qualified.

The current missing details are regarding the following scenario due to tournaments only determining who places 1 through 4.

How do you determine who places 5th, 6th in a scenario where previously qualified teams or teams that can’t qualify occupy spots in the top 4?

I feel it’s extremely unlikely that the WTS Qualifiers would only have 2 teams in the brackets for NA.

Yes clarification. Maybe January ESL weekly rules will be adjusted to : if you placed first or second this month already, you cannot enter another ESL weekly tournament. Then the system could grab 8 teams

Chaith.8256:

I feel it’s extremely unlikely that the WTS Qualifiers would only have 2 teams in the brackets for NA.

Unlikely maybe, but still possible given what we currently know, meaning everything wasn’t communicated or perhaps there was an oversight.

To further complicate the situation, what happens when a team perhaps like the reforming outplayed by children that can’t participate in the wts place 1 or 2 in a weekly?

Or what happens when 3 teams that can’t participate in WTS are in the top 3 out of 4 of a weekly?

Read the entire article. It says if a team has already qualified and they get 1st or 2nd again, the next team in line (ie. 3rd place) qualifies.

How do you determine who places 5th, 6th in a scenario where previously qualified teams or teams that can’t qualify occupy spots in the top 4?

GhOst.4019:

Yes clarification. Maybe January ESL weekly rules will be adjusted to : if you placed first or second this month already, you cannot enter another ESL weekly tournament. Then the system could grab 8 teams

Banning the top two teams from all streamed matches except for once a month that seems a little bit too forced a way to get other teams winning the weekly cash prizes. In fact that would surely make them log on to compete very rarely.

I say that because weekly finalists are already banned from the gem events organized by Blu that are designed for amateur teams. If teams want to compete without having to play the top teams, there are ways.

Everyone will be allowed to play in all of our Go4GuildWars2 cups, we won’t add any further restrictions to the cups during the time they function as qualifiers.

EDIT: With “everyone” I mean everyone that follows our current rules/requirements