Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I notice some tournaments are opening a free agent section (sadly only NA for now) and i think this could be a very interesting way to involve A LOT of people in tournaments and maybe to create new teams.

Besides the suggestion to introduce more free agent tournaments (for EU too) i like to see a very simple MMR for everyone, in this way organizers could create more balanced teams and the entire tournament would beneficiate for this.

So basically when you register like free agent, you need to give 2 voices:

Your experience tournament level

- beginner
- intermediate
- veteran
- ESL

and your role:

- pure dps/roamer (like zerker thief/mesmer/guardian)
- tank/holder (like cele ele/war etc.)

I think with these 2 simple voices, organizers could create very interesting pug tournaments and a lot of people would be interested on them.

What do you think?

I’d partecipate for sure

You would have too many veterans signing in as beginners “for the ROFL stomp” and intermediates signing in as veterans “due to ego”. The idea behind this engine sounds great but there is a lot that you would need to flatten out to make this system actually work as intended.

In the long run, I believe you would run in to the same problems that the arena-net team runs in to while trying to create an adequate MMR system. This is why normal tournaments just allow players to build their own team as enter as such.

Of course these categories are not fixed and are only indications on skill level, not laws written in the stone.

You can simplify the categories of course and in general i think ESL players are well known so if an organizer see an Helseth random signed like a beginner of course he doesn’t consider him like a beginner

It’s for sure better than organize a full free agent tournament totally random.

I’m pretty sure a tournament like this would involve A LOT of more people than an ESL random day.