Guild Wars 2

I think we need something like a quarterly special tournament with Legendary weapon skins for sPvP as the rewards.

Run monthly tournaments beforehand for QP entry, these occur at the start of each month to earn QPs, the quarterly tournament itself happens at the end of the 3rd month.
QPs from the qualifier tournaments are earned as 3 for a win, 2 for second, 1 for third.
Of course, everyone’s QPs must be reset each quarterly cycle before this can start.
+ A gem reward for 1st – 4th within each of the monthly tournaments to help add an incentive to initial entry for everyone.
Monthly qualifier tournament would be based on a standard 8 team format.

Either run around 8 tournaments (64 teams), two per hour on a specific evening to give the maximum amount of teams a chance to compete + a lockout mechanic so that each account can only enter once.

Or run the tournaments as and when the players queue up for it (still utilizing some form of lockout mechanic based on one entry per account) but have the tournaments work across a longer period like 24hrs.

Top 8 teams qualify, then do a large knock out stage as the quarterly tournament itself.

8 teams, start off with 1v1 on a best of 3 across Forest, Foefire and Kyhlo.

Best of 3 1v1 between the remaining 4 teams, across Temple, Spirit and Kyhlo.

Then a final round between the two winners, best of 5 across Forest, Foefire, Spirit, Temple and Kyhlo.

There are loads of fantastic weapon skins around, time to use them as an incentive to get people back, playing, training and trying to win something that not many will be able to get.

Winning team members get to pick one skin each to be rewarded with.

One Tourney NA, one EU.
5 Legendary up for grabs every 3 months or so, can’t be too often so that they stay special and rare. Worth competing for as a bragging right.

Thoughts?

Ezrael.6859:

Either run around 8 tournaments (64 teams), two per hour on a specific evening to give the maximum amount of teams a chance to compete + a lockout mechanic so that each account can only enter once.

I don’t think there are 8 teams left… Let alone 64.

I can’t name one team with a set 5 man on NA right now.

Well exactly! They have all left because they have little reason to play.
Who wants to do 8 team tournaments or 1v1 matches several times a day for glory and rank points?… To unlock items that eventually anyone will be able to unlock with enough playtime.

Proper teams aren’t gonna come back and just start playing all the time when a patch fixes all of the trait bugs, they don’t just want to play the PvP for the enjoyment of playing the PvP they need an incentive to play.

People in the top teams want bragging rights, what better bragging right here than a Legendary weapon skin or something similar, unique and rare for PvP.

Building up a tournament system like this would be a precursor to even bigger tournaments.

We need a serious tournament event with serious rewards to get people playing seriously again, right now the PvP is heading into casual mode.

Very few people would come back for a weapon skin.

Serious tourny events are not for weapon skins.

If they made it so that you could earn something in spvp that you could use in pve I would be in before they released it.

I wish they would add a tourney or pvp system for pve like the one in spvp. One in which you could earn items, gold, or skins.

I always hated the way that you can only get legendary weapons. It’s always hard work and has nothing to do with skill.

If they added something pvp like to pve in which I could have a chance to get a legendary weapon or gold with nothing but skill alone. I would love it!!!!!

I think if people heard that these types of tournies were being set-up in GW2, they’d come back just to see how things are.

I think once Anet gets out there and says “Hey, everyone! We’re having a PvP tourney on this date, sign up with your team here. We are only taking 16 teams by said date so be there of be square!” There would be quite a few people who would rush back into the game to see what’s up and if they continue to do it consistently every quarter, demand for more space to be involved in the tournies would rise.

Even if no old members come back, at the very least, new teams would form to participate in such an event.

Fuzion.7613:

Very few people would come back for a weapon skin.

Serious tourny events are not for weapon skins.

Few people would come back for weapon skins but everyone loves the prestige that comes with winning a tourney against the best of the best.

they wont do any such tournaments until they implement the basic features, even if that takes forever. Why not is beyond me, probably dont care enough.