Guild Wars 2

The first server who wins this week match wins the silver league.

Why start with the finale Anet? I do not understand.

same at goldleague

Ye normally leagues are randomized at start right? This is not good..

I vote for random league season matches.

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

Actually for everyone to be played once would have been a 4 week matchup. Instead servers like Picken Square get pitted against Seafarer’s and Visunah 3 times in 7 weeks. Not an even match up by any stretch.

Are the matches for this week up somewhere?

Ahlen.7591:

Are the matches for this week up somewhere?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Season-1-Schedule/first#post3052040

That’s just EU which means nothing to me!

Then you have to wait a little bit more.

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ll get some sort of schedule out as soon as we have the matchups. I’ll post it up on the forums and then we’ll find a way to get it out more broadly as well. The matchups aren’t locked in until the season actually starts. So, while EU is ready, NA won’t be ready for 6.5 more hours.

Ahlen.7591:

That’s just EU which means nothing to me!

Then what are you doing in my thread, I am from the EU

Title the thread Eu then! :P

magicweaver.2695:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

Actually for everyone to be played once would have been a 4 week matchup. Instead servers like Picken Square get pitted against Seafarer’s and Visunah 3 times in 7 weeks. Not an even match up by any stretch.

I didn’t say fight every opponent once, I said every possible matchup once

ie: a specific 3 server combination.

it looks like match 7 is going to be exactly the same as match 1. apparently, the season only really needs to be 6 weeks.

I suspect that the only reason it’s 7 weeks is because originally NA was going to be 2 leagues of 12, and with 12 servers in a league it takes 7 weeks for everyone to play everyone (I haven’t done the math to confirm this). but since NA is going to have no more than 9 servers per league, presumably we could have gone to a 6 week schedule.

-ken

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

In a League of 9 servers and 3 servers per match, there are a total of 84 possible matchups.

Lord Kuru.3685:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

In a League of 9 servers and 3 servers per match, there are a total of 84 possible matchups.

86 but yea i think it should be 8 weeks so we face each server twice not some twice some once.

Solstice.1097:

Lord Kuru.3685:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

In a League of 9 servers and 3 servers per match, there are a total of 84 possible matchups.

86 but yea i think it should be 8 weeks so we face each server twice not some twice some once.

Are you sure 86? It should be “9 choose 3,” no?

actually 8 * 7 / 2 makes more sense.

from the perspective of any single server, you have 8 choices of a first opponent, and 7 remaining choices for a second opponent, but getting A then B is the same outcome as getting B then A, so you divide by 2.

so I would have calculated 28 matchups.

-ken

Snowreap.5174:

actually 8 * 7 / 2 makes more sense.

from the perspective of any single server, you have 8 choices of a first opponent, and 7 remaining choices for a second opponent, but getting A then B is the same outcome as getting B then A, so you divide by 2.

so I would have calculated 28 matchups.

-ken

You’re counting the number of possible matchups that one server can have. I’m counting the total possible number of matches overall (all servers in the league).

Either way, we’re talking 28 weeks for every possible matchup to happen. (For my numbers, there are 84 possible matchups and 3 matchups per week, 84/3 = 28.)

In any case, I believe we were guaranteed that every server would meet every other server at least once — not that every possible matchup would happen.

1st server is arbitrary and doesn’t matter so pick any random server and it’s matchup potentials are 8*7 = 56. There are 6 left pick a random server and it’s potentials are 5*4 = 20. 3rd match has 1 option and I forgot to add it so it’s 56+20+1=87

You can’t start with 9 because a server can’t fight itself.