Guild Wars 2

Hello Recently i see u guys had tournaments at random times, was wondering it would be cool to add mini tournaments in the pvp arena area where random people can select a tournament and be in que for it when its ready. the winning team gets a prize. obvious make an auto prize draw where u guys selected not to crazy prizes, but well worth going into the tournament for cause im curios how many players want to join the tournament, but don’t have a team and not wanting to search for one. just be sweet to have mini tournaments in game.

From what i remember, there used to be mini tournaments like this in place of where solo/team pvp is now. I have no idea where it went or why they did away with it, I for one definitely enjoyed it.

They are having one again – jeez – read developers blogs….

Dusty Moon, U dont understand what im saying do you, yes they are having a tournament but that’s 1 every so many days months, im talking about mini tournament within the game in the pvp area like rooms where random players can register in game and when its starts the players who are register are teleport to the pvp map. not just 1 tournament many in a list with set times.

Evan Lesh.3295:

We did ship with 3 round round tournaments with 8 teams and rewards were based on placement. However, the barrier to entry was high and queue times were long. Having a structured (in-game) way to support multi-round tournaments again would be fun though.

Reimplement free tourneys limited to one per day.

One tournament every day at 21.00 for example.

The system could start with 8 teams only but it would be even better if there was no preset number of teams

ie; only 2 teams join make it 1 round, if 4 teams join 2 rounds, 8 teams 3 rounds, etc

Rewards would be adjusted depending on the number of teams (gold? Gems? Titles?)

Also after you are eliminated in later rounds you are invited to watch the finals

I definitely agree with Marcos

As it stands, PvP players are pretty much bored and are desperate for more exciting queues or tournaments (in-game)

Evan Lesh.3295:

We did ship with 3 round round tournaments with 8 teams and rewards were based on placement. However, the barrier to entry was high and queue times were long. Having a structured (in-game) way to support multi-round tournaments again would be fun though.

Perhaps implement scheduled (3x a day?) automated swiss-style tournaments in the fashion that GW1 has used for GvGs (and hero battles) for 6-7 years now? Swiss style makes it so that the number of rounds depends on the # of teams that sign up, and if you get >16 or 32 teams signing up you can have Swiss rounds leading to a single-elimination round for the top 8 teams

Evan Lesh.3295:

We did ship with 3 round round tournaments with 8 teams and rewards were based on placement. However, the barrier to entry was high and queue times were long. Having a structured (in-game) way to support multi-round tournaments again would be fun though.

Tickets + no mmr was an horrible design you know, and 40 people to start a queue was a really bad idea.

Team ladder (with division, gold/silver/bronze etc.) + automatic daily/weekly/monthly tournament based on team positions in ladder would be really fun.

Of course with very good rewards and team stats

Why don’t put weekly tournaments for single (on the new arena that acquires more sense), and for teams (on the teamq rotation map)..
Partecipating once for week incentivate more ppl and this will resolve queue time, maybe add final prizes (gold chest like wurm or pav chest), with 3 certain prizes (obsidian, x champion bags, 1 exotic guaranteed, 1 new dedicated skin?) and random prizes such as glob of ecto, stacks of t6, ascended chest etc..
Weekly tournaments must also be open, where all can partecipate, simply signing the team with a join system like teamq (example: 8 team for every tournament room, so if 160 teams would like to partecipate the x day, 20 roster would be created)…
The only problem can be when ppl that will partecipate are for example like 164, in that case the roster will become just a 2 matches tournament instead of 3 matches…
Make the signin of the torunament limited, like from 21 to 22:30 GMT+2, so you can join a tournament max 2 time and this will prevent tournament to be farmable..
Add prizes only for the first 2 team, gold and silver reward, the rest of the roster team will receive their stuff by the reward track as normal…