Guild Wars 2

Apologies if this has already been posted; I searched but wasn’t sure exactly how to word this.

Earlier tonight, our server managed to capture green keep in Eternal Battlegrounds WvW, which to my limited knowledge has not happened in the past 2-3 months. I got the keep vista on my alt that I was playing at the time, and quickly switched to my main which literally needed that single vista for world completion. Here’s what happened next:

Time elapsed – 0 min: I queue my main toon for EB
Time elapsed – 5 min: My guild leader queues for EB and his queue pops almost instantly
Time elapsed – 10 min: a guild friend queues for EB and his queue pops almost instantly
Time elapsed – 15 min: to everyone’s surprise, my queue finally pops

Both guildies were explaining to me that your queue priority is determined by which zone you’re in and how many people are there, yet I can’t find any explanation or documentation on Anet’s forums or wiki.

For the record, how does the game determine whose queue pops first for WvWvW?

PS – I did end up getting that vista for world completion

I believe every 15 minute the game does this check: if RNG[1,100] <= 10 then join WvW.

So far as has been worked out, it isn’t totally accurate though as sometimes discrepencies appear. It queues you up based on where you are, if someone queues later than you but from a different place that is earlier in the zone check they’ll move ahead of you on the queue system unless there was already people queing from that zone, priority is nearly always given to re-queue people(which it checks for zone by zone before allowing normal queuers, they then have to hit the enter button or requeue before it moves to the next). So find the zone with least people queing but is earliest in the zone check.

So my question now becomes….how are the zones organized in this “zone check?” The guildies I WvW’ed with last night hinted at this as well, but I have yet to see any information posted or wiki’d about this. They also said that re-queuing would move my position in queue up to the front, and this seemed to help (but that also could be coincidence).

Seems very odd that the WvWvW queue is not first come, first serve.