Guild Wars 2

• Will final be Bo5 or Bo3?

• Will brackets be randomized, seeded, or unfairly matched so other teams have an advantage over others?

• Will there be at least 30 minutes break between group matches and finals?
  • If so, it could be used for community events, interviews, or something.

^ An answer would be lovely.

Here’s a thought: Ask the teams to lock down their builds and submit them to the shoutcasters (or ArenaNet) the night before the match. That would give people time to put together some intelligent commentary about the builds and team comps before the fight.

(Assuming your shoutcasters are trustworthy)

When will the guilds involved be notified and when will the brackets be finalized? While the brackets being finalized isnt a huge issue it would be nice for the teams who are going to be involved to know for sure a couple days in advance. A Friday afternoon email saying “btw you play tomorrow at noon” or “your in but you wont be playing till Sunday” is kind of a hassle for those of us who are trying to plan our weekend around this event.

For the shoutcasters:
I would love to see more drawing of circles and arrows on the minimap.
In fact i want the minimap to be a megamap!
I dont mind opening two steams so i could have a clear view of what is actually going on..
One with the match and one with a map like in the begining of the game..

Inbetween:

-Maybe some gossip?
-Have a Mixup game with dev’s.
-Pre-record some interviews.
-Show a random arena and make people famous or infamous
-Give aways! who doesn’t love a giveaway?

Definitely in favour of more team comp talk.

Thedenofsin.7340:

Here’s a thought: Ask the teams to lock down their builds and submit them to the shoutcasters (or ArenaNet) the night before the match. That would give people time to put together some intelligent commentary about the builds and team comps before the fight.

(Assuming your shoutcasters are trustworthy)

I am not in favor of this. Countercomping is a HUGE part of this game.
I would be ok with them showing my build if the stream or the spectator feature had a delay on it. Until that happens, I expect builds will not be shown on stream so there’s no streamsniping for builds.

Acandis.3250:

Thedenofsin.7340:

Here’s a thought: Ask the teams to lock down their builds and submit them to the shoutcasters (or ArenaNet) the night before the match. That would give people time to put together some intelligent commentary about the builds and team comps before the fight.

(Assuming your shoutcasters are trustworthy)

I am not in favor of this. Countercomping is a HUGE part of this game.
I would be ok with them showing my build if the stream or the spectator feature had a delay on it. Until that happens, I expect builds will not be shown on stream so there’s no streamsniping for builds.

Agreed with Acandis. Teams should not know who they are facing until they step into the arena. At that point they shouldn’t be allowed to leave the arena (to prevent profession switches or trait changes).

Counter Comping is downright cheesy. Did you like it when friends looked at your screen when playing Halo as a kid (Lan Multiplayer)?

Don’t think thedenofsin was suggesting making the builds public but rather given to the shoutcasters beforehand so they get familiar with skills/traits they might not have seen before. I think it’s a good idea, sometimes the casters just don’t know what some builds are capable of.

Defektive.7283:

Acandis.3250:

Thedenofsin.7340:

Here’s a thought: Ask the teams to lock down their builds and submit them to the shoutcasters (or ArenaNet) the night before the match. That would give people time to put together some intelligent commentary about the builds and team comps before the fight.

(Assuming your shoutcasters are trustworthy)

I am not in favor of this. Countercomping is a HUGE part of this game.
I would be ok with them showing my build if the stream or the spectator feature had a delay on it. Until that happens, I expect builds will not be shown on stream so there’s no streamsniping for builds.

Agreed with Acandis. Teams should not know who they are facing until they step into the arena. At that point they shouldn’t be allowed to leave the arena (to prevent profession switches or trait changes).

Counter Comping is downright cheesy. Did you like it when friends looked at your screen when playing Halo as a kid (Lan Multiplayer)?

It is a double sided coin though, you see them, they see you. Most people make it sound so one sided. The enemy can see what I am running.
But you see what they are running too.

I agree there is a fine line to this, but in a spectator sport, the crowd has to know something. When you turn on the stream, all you see is AoE rings and particles and pets.

Spectator does not have casting bars, so I have no clue what is going to happen unless I am watching all the players animations at one time. Honestly, shoutcasting is more like real time replay. I am not questioning any caster’s knowledge of the game, but all they can really offer to observers are rezzing and stomps. Because they as well are in the dark.

We can compare this to other games or professional sports or whatever and I feel like they can do more predicting. But from current spectator mode combined with shoutcasting, you could only speculate at most.
Partly due to spectator not discriminating aoe ring colors.

Prime example, at least in gw1 spectating, you had cast bars, but there was a general flow to targeting. Follow the frontline right? Maybe this is my fault in not knowing what to follow yet in gw2, but I don’t see that clarity yet.

Acandis.3250:

• Will brackets be randomized, seeded, or unfairly matched so other teams have an advantage over others?

Any team that acandis is on will be unfairly matched anyways, in the opponents favor of course.

tang.7203:

Acandis.3250:

• Will brackets be randomized, seeded, or unfairly matched so other teams have an advantage over others?

Any team that acandis is on will be unfairly matched anyways, in the opponents favor of course.

ACANDIS GET FUKT BY DA BUNKY KILLA