Guild Wars 2

Look at some of the great matchups we are having this week in NA, due to that the generator actually threw close ranks together for once.

Tier 1 is typically decent, and insofar as they are the only 3 servers that are fit to fight each other, the best that can be done there. 2 and 3 are a bit unstable, but 3 isn’t too bad with SBI getting their shot at Mag.

Tiers 4, 5, and 6 all have nice close matches, except for NS should not be in T4, but YB and EB are still having a great fight despite it.

The other two middle ones are close because they are servers that would be fighting each other naturally under the old system. These could actually come down to the final day, wonderful, just like the system actually intended! For the whole week to matter. You would think this is what Anet would want, but apparently not.

All these close matches are going to be ruined by leagues, as they may only come up 1 or 2 times in the entire 7 weeks, and the rest of the weeks will be pitting the top of a bracket vs the bottom and it won’t be remotely close. This tradeoff is not worth it simply so that one winning server can all get a gold finishing move. Please.

Some people used to complain matchup by rank became stagnant, and that it began to corrode the true rank due to lack of variety to retest proper server strength. This could be solved by using the current more randomized system just once every month. The rest of the month, the other 3 weeks, you would match up based on rank.

I think the vast majority of the playerbase would prefer competitive matches, as opposed to what is going to happen with leagues. Blowouts and even more disruptive large server transfers, that risk killing off some servers altogether and further metastasizing the already growing problem of extremely top heavy population on 3 servers and everywhere else dwindling away.

The ratings are closer than ever to representing actual strength. There is a 200 point gulf between TC and any tier 1 server, exactly showing the huge difference between tier 1 and even the strongest tier 2 server. There is a huge block in the T3/4/5 area where servers are fairly evenly matched, followed by another gulf and T6/7/8 where they are also fairly evenly matched.

Continued matchups under the current system would already be fine. If leagues are to be implemented, the cutoffs should be where the obvious gaps in power are – between T1 and T2, and then between T5 and T6.

Anytime their is a large rating gap (100pts or so) it will be a blowout. The rating gaps with the current league set-up and the biggest ranking gaps in those leagues:
http://mos.millenium.org/na/ Oct 6.

NA Gold rank 1 vs rank 6 = 343;
157 rating gap from 3-4, 179 rating gap 4-5
NA Silver rank 7 vs rank 15 = 328;
120 rating gap 9-10, 150 rating gap from 14-15
NA Bronze rank 16 vs rank 24 = 207;
43 rating gap from 19-20

EU Gold rank 1 vs rank 9 = 264;
62 rating gap from 5-6
EU Silver rank 10 vs rank 18 = 204;
61 rating gap from 16-17
EU Bronze rank 19 vs rank 27 = 717;
95rating gap 21-22, 142 rating gap 22-24, 144 rating gap 25-26

So the most competitive leagues will be EU silver, NA bronze, and EU gold. NA gold will be won by a t1 server and 5-6 will lose every match. In NA silver a t4 server will win it and rank 15 will lose every match. In EU bronze the servers below rank 21 do not stand a chance.

Each world will be matched up with each other world in their league at least once over the course of the season. 1st place in each match-up will gain the world 5 points, 2nd place 3 points, and 3rd place 1 point. In the competitive leagues I expect servers to team up against the stronger one to win the league instead of playing for ppt and killing the moral of the weaker server.

Yes please! Unfortunately, I think ANET needs for the leagues to fail before they learn.

Yeah I’m loving our current matchup I wish it would happen more often

style.6173:

Yes please! Unfortunately, I think ANET needs for the leagues to fail before they learn.

“Must have more data. We dont really know its going to fail, just because a minority of the game that is passionate about it, and actually play it, keep saying it, over and over again!” <—- this is a great way to disenfranchise your highly engaged player base. I am not saying that you have to listen to everything that you highly engaged player base says, but USE KITTEN COMMON SENSE. This is a kitten joke, if you can’t see it now by the time your data shows it, IT WILL BE TOO LATE.

clint.5681:

Yeah I’m loving our current matchup I wish it would happen more often

Not me 24 vs 18 vs 15 – They just wanted to give us a sneak preview of how kitteny the leagues are going to be.