Guild Wars 2

Assuming a scenario where servers 1-6 are playing against each other…
Assuming Server 1 always beats server 2 who always beats server 3 who always beats server 4 and so on…

Week 1 will be: 1 vs 2 vs 3 and
4 vs 5 vs 6.
Week 2 will be: 1 vs 2 vs 4 and
3 vs 5 vs 6
At which point 1 will have 10 points
2 thru 5 will have 6 points
6 will have 2 points
Week 3 will be a repeat of week 1.
Weeks 1,3,5,7,9 will all be the same.
Weeks 2,4,6,8 will all be the same.

After week 9
The number 1 server will have 45 points.
The number 4 server will have 29 points.
The number 2 and 5 servers will have 27 points.
The number 3 server will have 25 points.
The number 6 server will have 9 points.

In this scenario, over 9 weeks, the number 3 server never gets to play against number 4.
And servers 1 and 2 never get to play against servers 5 and 6.
Basically servers 3 and 4 just flop matchups every week until inevitably the number 3 server gets screwed due to odd number of weeks.

I don’t have a solution or anything, just pointing it out.

Rabe.9804:

Solution:
First week matchups between the servers in their leagues;
after that matchups between all NA-servers depending on their performance (=points) during tournament:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Many-questions-so-Dev/first#post3793228

I was trying to understand what you’re getting at…
There’s gold/silver/bronze leagues.
1-6
7-15
16-24
Not all servers are in the same pool.
This problem exists for gold league.
I haven’t done the numbers to see how it would work out for the leagues with 9 servers.

Chris.3290:

Variations in who wins the 1-3 match might mess with the math, but that can make it #4 could win the whole thing… Sweet!

Correct, SoS could technically finish second. Even though they lose to number 2 each time they play them, and never having to fight number 3.

Rabe.9804:

With the beginning of week 2 of tournament all servers are in one pool.

Their place in standings is first based on their points, then on their wolrd rating.

Example:
after first week: g1,g4,s1,s4,s7,b1,b4,b7 have all 5 points
= ranking because g1 has higher rating as g4 and so on.
then 2nd places, then third

matchup week 2:
g1vsg4vss1
s4vss7vsb1
b4vsb7vsg2, because g2 has the highest place of the servers with 3 points

Source on this? Does this mean matchups can be cross-“league” but final standings and rewards are based on “leagues” (which are then based on glicko ratings at the start of the season)?

“The initial round of the tournament will match the worlds in each league according to their world rating.”
Key words… In each league