Guild Wars 2

I have a few questions and I hope to get proper answers:
1. How do you check if you are facing a team or not? I join only unranked arena.

2. Is the captain of the team, the one with the highest PVP rank?

3. Is the Courtyard map the only place where you may lose and not receive any PVP EXP points?

I also want to share something with you. Probably most of you are aware of it.
I leave the office at 5 /17:00 UTC+2/, I turn my PC at 6, and I start to PVP at 6:30.
Yesterday I won 4 out of 4 games with a friend.
The day before that I won 6 out of 6 with the same friend.
I don`t want to jump to conclusions, but I think that:
at this time almost no teams play, because I consider myself as a casual player
at this time a 2 man team can make a huge difference at the arena
I`ll observe this for a week.

As to my last question. I`m sure that at Courtyard you may leave a game without any EXP points. Happened once or twice. Yesterday I felt great when I died at their gate when we were winning 300 to 0. We won 500 do 25 and I hope that they got 500 PVP EXP. Please tell me if there is such a thing on other arenas too, so that I should pay attention.

1. You can’t. You can try to join the party of people in the other team, and if you can’t, they are already in a party. It doesn’t tell you the size of the party though.

2. I think a dev said somewhere that the “captain” (I assume you mean the one whose name is spoken in the beginning of the match) is the team member of highest MMR, but I wouldn’t take my word for it.

3. My guess is that you lost 500-0 on Courtyard, which often happens if your team composition is worse than the one of the opposite team. Your personal score was therefore 0, and the game considered you were afk. I’m not aware of the penalty, but it’s possible you get stripped of your rewards in that case. This case is almost impossible on other maps (happened to me yesterday, though, in a match were I was outplayed hard), because you can almost always decap a node a t some point.

kpeatop.9458:

I have a few questions and I hope to get proper answers:
1. How do you check if you are facing a team or not? I join only unranked arena.

Press B, then right click on each. And then you can see 3 options:
Invite player to your party
Join player’s party
Nothing about party

First means that it is a solo queue. Second is that player is in a party and then by checking the rest of the enemy team you can see how many more are in party and then detect how big is that party. Third option means that it is a full premade.

This kind of detecting works fine only, if you are queuing solo.

If you find 3 ppl with option to join their party, it means its a 3man team (3+1+1). If you find there are 4 people, then it can be 4man team or two times 2man (4+1 or 2+2+1). If you detect only 2 people like that, then it is 2+1+1+1.

More or less like this.