Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-world-championship/

“To earn a spot at the World Championship, teams must first emerge victorious in the double-elimination qualifiers on August 6 and 7. . . . The qualifier will be open to existing Pro League teams.”

I don’t care there is a topic about this already, there should be 5 of them. Because this is simply mad. Just by qualifying for PL half a year ago should not give a team exlusive attendance rights to a tournament that was advertised as “Wild card tournament”. Basically a tourne where a new team could come in with no looking into past and jump to the top tournament.

The PL already made the “gw2 pro team scene” super exclusive and everyone outside of it was left out to soloque. And those inside had such small amount of real games per week. PL qualifiers and wildcard tournament were the only thing these guys outside of it were waiting for and perhaps practising for. Wildcard was supposed to place everyone on equal starting point again.

GW2 PvP has always needed more team activity in the base level, more bad teams, more average teams and more better teams – just more teams! And they need tournaments to play! Who is going to replace the top teams when they break up, if the 9th team in line has never played a tournament game or ever played a game against the top 8.

This exclusivity is so bad for the PvP community. Why would anyone outside of top 8 play if they are not even given a chance to participate.

Sab

Nothing to add, you said everything.

Its funny this gets mentioned now but the TOL tournaments were so huge.

I mean even on youtube you had guys breaking down the brackets of who is where and what team could go on.

It was pretty awesome and there was always 2-3 teams that made huge pushes even though everyone knew who the top 4 teams were. So the top 4 teams always made it to the top for but the teams running 5-15 were jumbled up and mixed.

Who knows why they did the Pro Leagues the way they did. I havent checked the AG scene but it just feels like a after thought now.

Some truth here. A Wildcard by definition is often given to a player or team that would not have otherwise made it into the world finals. They are rarely chosen from those participants that are already allowed to compete for a spot (and rather handed out to new talent/youngsters/players or teams from countries that don’t meet the required quotas etc). That said it does happen that a wildcard is just handed out to the “next best” or the best among the non-division winners; most commonly in North American Sports Leagues.

That said, us being a Challenger Team that wants to get a chance even to just compete feel kind of left out. Just because we formed too late for the last qualifiers 6 months ago means we now pretty much have to go on with only our own motivation and nothing to play/practice for. Hell the possibility of a third PL not even happening at all is hanging over our heads every time we practice. Why even show a “Guild Challenger League” for Season 2 on the infographic if there really isnt any Guild Challenger League at all!