Q:
Will we be split in half (meaning top 12 and bottom 12) or will there be the usual 6/9/9 split?
The announcement suggests that there will be places 1-12, implying that there will be 12 servers per “league,” which is more consistent with the Swiss-style tournament model.
I know I am not the only one looking for an official answer to this question.
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A:
Will we be split in half (meaning top 12 and bottom 12) or will there be the usual 6/9/9 split?
The announcement suggests that there will be places 1-12, implying that there will be 12 servers per “league,” which is more consistent with the Swiss-style tournament model.
I know I am not the only one looking for an official answer to this question.
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.
The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
I’d love a bigger server pool to pick from. Would be a welcome change. At the same time, I’d feel like a big bully picking on lower tiered servers.
I’d love a bigger server pool to pick from. Would be a welcome change. At the same time, I’d feel like a big bully picking on lower tiered servers.
Judging how swiss style works, I really doubt JQ will face anything different than BG/TC/SoS.
loopsided matches are loopsided matches….
omg, GG rank #6 NA
So I’m guessing it’ll be BG, JQ, TC, SoS, FA and ??? for Gold League NA again?
Commence mad scramble to not make gold mag / db / sbi / dr / cd / yb
Jessica Boettiger for Anet chief president!
Commence mad scramble to not make gold mag / db / sbi / dr / cd / yb
lol..yeah.. it is a “who can tank harder” race now……
A race to the bottom…
If you can tank NOW and end up placed lowest in the league, you can then start ‘winning’ all your matches stomping low tier servers and gaining max reward.
Its only 4 weeks, you may never come up against the true T1 gold servers. Deso, SFR TC BG etc.
Will we be split in half (meaning top 12 and bottom 12) or will there be the usual 6/9/9 split?
The announcement suggests that there will be places 1-12, implying that there will be 12 servers per “league,” which is more consistent with the Swiss-style tournament model.
I know I am not the only one looking for an official answer to this question.
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
Aww, you all shoulda used my suggestion about all of NA in one league and adjust the matchmaking so that you wouldn’t have ridiculous matches.
a 6 team swiss tournament makes no sense. I’m surprised ANET didn’t learn anything from the last tournament. I’ve love to see how you plan to have new matchups every week with that few servers.
*yawn. it is a repeat of last season, just shorter.
a 6 team swiss tournament makes no sense. I’m surprised ANET didn’t learn anything from the last tournament. I’ve love to see how you plan to have new matchups every week with that few servers.
*yawn. it is a repeat of last season, just shorter.
They can’t make gold any more then 6 servers.. Otherwise you are going to have the most one sided matches ever.
They can balance the game though… there’s just too many servers for just a few players. Merge the first ranked server with the last and so on. Rename the servers to avoid childish complaints.
Merge the first ranked server with the last and so on. Rename the servers to avoid childish complaints.
No thanks, i dont wanna be in T1.
But i would like to see some kind of merge with T8-T7 servers
Every server would be “T1”. I don’t know what people think about T1, but it’s not infinite queues and zergsfests everywhere. I know because I was in BP for almost a year and have been in T1 for 3 months now.
I’m primarily a roamer, and it’s so much better here in T1 than it ever was in T4~5. There’s action 24/7 and room for every single aspect of WvW. U can solo roam, u can havoc, u can follow the tag ang get into zerg fights. Only time we get long queues is on reset nights, mostly on EB. Beside that, you can just log in and play.
People have a really wrong image of what things looks like in T1. As a former T4~5 player, I can say that the T1 population and sense of an alive world (no more deserts maps besides NA prime) is what WvW were supposed to be.
a 6 team swiss tournament makes no sense. I’m surprised ANET didn’t learn anything from the last tournament. I’ve love to see how you plan to have new matchups every week with that few servers.
*yawn. it is a repeat of last season, just shorter.
They can’t make gold any more then 6 servers.. Otherwise you are going to have the most one sided matches ever.
Do you really think anyone in T2 is going to compete with any of the T1 servers? It will just be 4 weeks of them getting wrecked. Again, this is just tournament 2 all over again which was boring.
At least if it was 2 brackets of 12 teams we’d see some new fights. Unbalanced, yes, but that will be the case regardless of how they structure any tournament with the current scoring system.
I was hoping for the 12 server matchups. The three league system promotes tanking and bandwagoning.
Of course those bandwagons usually implode and is a good revenue stream for ANet.
They can balance the game though… there’s just too many servers for just a few players. Merge the first ranked server with the last and so on. Rename the servers to avoid childish complaints.
People will still flock to the top server, I’ve never seen so many bronze finishers from a T1 (Gold winning) server before.
Will we be split in half (meaning top 12 and bottom 12) or will there be the usual 6/9/9 split?
The announcement suggests that there will be places 1-12, implying that there will be 12 servers per “league,” which is more consistent with the Swiss-style tournament model.
I know I am not the only one looking for an official answer to this question.
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
While you’re at it, can you tell us if there’s any new way of ranking servers pre-tournament? Otherwise nothing is going to stop high tier servers from intentionally tanking again to stomp low tier servers.
Still time to change this bad idea ANET. I really hope you understand that 6-9-9 in NA is boring.
the golden / silver / bronze leagues is bad idea with so few servers each league. players in servers are boring because they are fighting every week the same enemies.
anet should start thinking more serious the coverage problem and create the situations for balanced wvw population all the times and create worlds with not separated leagues , but only one with the X number of servers each one. ( NA , EU – internationals , NA/EU – nationals )
p.s. and separate the national servers from internationals …. we have nothing common with the national servers
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If gold tier for NA had a good base reward even for last place in gold tier compared to first place silver… that might become really funny.
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
but but from the announcement :
" Our next tournament will be an extremely intense, exciting four-week-long tournament battle. The shorter format will ensure that worlds will not be repeatedly matched against one another , which will more closely resemble a true Swiss-style tournament. Each matchup will be unique, and every win—or upset—will make a huge difference! "
the bold part. how is this possible for gold league ? i know this is possible for a 9-team league, but how is this possible for a 6-team league ?
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
but but from the announcement :
" Our next tournament will be an extremely intense, exciting four-week-long tournament battle. The shorter format will ensure that worlds will not be repeatedly matched against one another , which will more closely resemble a true Swiss-style tournament. Each matchup will be unique, and every win—or upset—will make a huge difference! "
the bold part. how is this possible for gold league ? i know this is possible for a 9-team league, but how is this possible for a 6-team league ?
I would assume “repeatedly” means over and over – as in more than twice.
The could do:
1/2/3 4/5/6
1/2/4 3/5/6
1/4/5 2/3/6
1/3/6 2/4/5
And there are other possibilities.
Wait why am I defending Anet?
The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.
but but from the announcement :
" Our next tournament will be an extremely intense, exciting four-week-long tournament battle. The shorter format will ensure that worlds will not be repeatedly matched against one another , which will more closely resemble a true Swiss-style tournament. Each matchup will be unique, and every win—or upset—will make a huge difference! "
the bold part. how is this possible for gold league ? i know this is possible for a 9-team league, but how is this possible for a 6-team league ?
I would assume “repeatedly” means over and over – as in more than twice.
The could do:
1/2/3 4/5/6
1/2/4 3/5/6
1/4/5 2/3/6
1/3/6 2/4/5And there are other possibilities.
Wait why am I defending Anet?
I had figured on that series as well. That way each T2 server only has to face two T1 servers once; while no T1 server gets to face two T2 server more than once.
Any other system will unfairly punish or reward servers.
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