Guild Wars 2

I’ve thought about the upcoming tournament and while nice has one feature that bothers a lot of people. Some servers, FA, SoS, Mag, HoD, etc. Essentially the majority of servers have no hope of winning with the current system. Now I like the idea of the next match-up being based on your current position in the tournament. (How well your server is doing will compete with similar servers)

Now here is the idea to circumvent this:

Forget about leagues. Start the match-ups based on their current rating. And move forward as planned when it comes to deciding match-ups. (Those that win go against those closest in strength who are also winning, etc.) Without the barriers of leagues, some of the bottom of the current league system can compete with the best of the lower leagues, and those doing well in what would’ve been bronze can face off against the weakest of would be silver. By doing this you have more variety in your match-ups.

Next is the point system. With this change, you will see the servers with the most wins rewarded the most. And servers that would of dominated their bracket give a chance to finally lose a match, by competing with ever stronger opponents, allowing servers under them to receive relevant rewards, by raising their relative position to the server that had been creaming them, as that server can actually lose.

If this was too complicated for you, I’ll try my best at a TLDR:
-Remove leagues
-First match-up based on current ratings
-Matches are adjusted to create a competitive environment as is current plan (minus leagues) week to week
-Rewards based on number of times your server got 1st/2nd/3rd (100/70/40 tickets for each week)

This allows servers weak in the current league system to win more often and gain more rewards, and prevents servers at the top of silver and bronze from simply destroying the competition, as they will face stronger and stronger servers. Top of gold league is unaffected by this change, but it will probably be the most competitive anyway with TC/BG/JQ, while servers like FA, and Maguma can beat down SOR and DB once in a while for some extra rewards than what they will currently get.

Sincerely, a hopeful player.

Great ideas.
Removing the leagues would also prevent servers from loosing some weeks before the tournament starts, so that they get into another leagues where they can easily win… which already happened in season one… I had really hoped the new mode meant they were getting rid of the leagues…

Thx for the response. In case people were wondering I’ve compiled a list of servers that will benefit from this change.

Mag, SoS, FA, SBI, IoJ, BP, YB, HoD, CD, NSP, GoM, EB, DR, AR, ET, Kain.

All these servers will be given a chance to receive more or sometimes less rewards for the tournament. Which will help motivate them to try to win. If they still fell 3rd each game, they would win 200 tickets, but if they can win at least one week, that’s an extra 60 tickets for them.

I think more servers will benefit from this system. And it helps deter the server stacking problem we have now.