Guild Wars 2

I was curious why the leagues are broken down the way they are for NA? Gold – 6 servers, Silver & Bronze 9 servers each. Sure, Europe has 27 servers, 3 leagues…so 9 servers per league. NA has 24 servers, 3 leagues….so shouldn’t there be 8 servers in each league?

If it’s because of the 3 servers per map, why does gold get the smallest server sample? Shouldn’t bronze be the 6 server league…..where there is greater population percentage difference?

Matchup is fight between 3 servers. In tournaments leagues are locked and nobody from bronze can fight server from silver.
Making league of 8 servers wont work because of mathematics.

Omg just merge the bottom 6 servers already so NA can have 3 Leagues of 6 servers each and we can all move on to fixing the rest of WvW.

Otokomae.9356:

Omg just merge the bottom 6 servers already so NA can have 3 Leagues of 6 servers each and we can all move on to fixing the rest of WvW.

Just break up the top 6 servers already, since it’s clear that T1 and T2 don’t belong in the same league and can’t have a decent match-up with anyone else, either.

Or maybe we can all just stop making suggestions about how to ruin other people’s servers.

The entire player population thread summed up in two posts, beautiful

t1 has more people, larger groups, more consistent group action. From the sounds of it the smaller servers are a haven for the roamers and small group stuff. To each their own, people can move if they want. IMO the losingest t1 team should always be forced open for transfers for people who want that kind of thing, and t2 should just always be open. Regardless of PVE communities. Those who want the smaller stuff, have at it and I hope you have fun, I don’t’ get it, it’s not for me, but I wish ya’ll the best.

Berk.8561:

Otokomae.9356:

Omg just merge the bottom 6 servers already so NA can have 3 Leagues of 6 servers each and we can all move on to fixing the rest of WvW.

Just break up the top 6 servers already, since it’s clear that T1 and T2 don’t belong in the same league and can’t have a decent match-up with anyone else, either.

Or maybe we can all just stop making suggestions about how to ruin other people’s servers.

Well, we can do both by merging the bottom 3 and closing the top 3. Compromise. Why does everything have to be either/or?

As to OP, matches are made up of 3 teams, so leagues have to be a multiple of 3. For EU it was easy having 27 servers, 3 leagues of 9 teams each. For NA with 24 servers, it was supposed to be 9 in gold, 9 in silver and 6 bronze. There was a lot of argument against it becuase there was too much difference in pop/coverage from T1 – T3, so it was shifted to 6 in gold, 9 in silver and 9 in bronze.

Tyeme.6589:

I was curious why the leagues are broken down the way they are for NA? Gold – 6 servers, Silver & Bronze 9 servers each.
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If it’s because of the 3 servers per map, why does gold get the smallest server sample?

I have always assumed it is because the top tier servers have greater percentage of total WvW playing population. If 80% of the active WvW population is concentrated into the top 6 servers… Gold should only be 6 servers.

Swamurabi.7890:

Well, we can do both by merging the bottom 3 and closing the top 3. Compromise. Why does everything have to be either/or?

If it wasn’t clear, I have concerns about forcibly shutting down any servers, top or bottom, because I think there are plenty of people at both ends who like their communities and are even largely happy with the play on their servers. I think what the servers at the bottom need are some handicapping or a modest amount of transfers to improve their coverage, not a forced transfer or merging into a whole other community and style of play.

“so shouldn’t there be 8 servers in each league?”

Because there’d be two groups of 3 vs each other, and 1 group of just two vs each other. Had to split them into batches of 3.