Guild Wars 2

Say 2 servers are tied for 3rd place, how will you (A.net) break the tie ?
1 – will you give 3rd place to the one with the highest score for the last week match up ?
2 – will you give both servers 3rd place rewards ?

I personally think option 1 is better, give 3rd place to the one with the highest score.
what do you think ?

Already answered.

DevonCarver.5370:

If there is a tie, each server will be awarded the rewards for that place. e.g. if NSP and IoJ tie for 8th each will receive 8th place rewards.

I’d say #2 is the better option cause #1 would just lead into “Not fair! Those guys had an easier match!” especially in our league (SoR having to fight BG/JQ vs TC fighting SoS/Mag.)

Is there any league that might have this happen? Because Gold NA barring divine intervention is already set.

That would mean that worse server could get third place.

Having not established rules for breaking ties before the league play started, I’d say the only fair thing is to give both servers 3rd place awards. E.g., if there were a tie for 1st, then the top two servers should get 1st place awards and the next one down should get 3rd place awards (no 2nd place awards in this, impossible to occur this season, scenario).

If anet were to establish tie-breaker rules for the future, the standard way to do this would be to go to head-to-head play (most wins in head to head is the winner), if this is also a tie, then count points against for all matches in the season (the team with lower points against is then the winner). Probability of a tie after this is almost 0, so coin toss after this :-)

Btw, you do “points against” instead of “points for” to avoid having servers run up the scores in easy matches, although in the wvw format they’re sort of similar… hmmm.

I was going to say…whoever has the most players.

other servers not tied take a few days off while the ones who tied fight it out…

24hr death match…

(I like my solution better)

oh wait… crap… no i don’t… O.o nevermind! tied servers get nothing (like that one better

So if there is a 1st place winner, a tie for 2nd place (both receive 2nd place rewards), then the next server will get 4th place rewards, not third place rewards? Hearing different things from different people

Perses God.4621:

So if there is a 1st place winner, a tie for 2nd place (both receive 2nd place rewards), then the next server will get 4th place rewards, not third place rewards? Hearing different things from different people

This hasn’t been answered directly, but mostly likely yes. In your example, there would be no 3rd place reward as there is no 3rd place finisher (technically). This is how tournament formats typically work in the event of ties.

Waffler.1257:

Already answered.

DevonCarver.5370:

If there is a tie, each server will be awarded the rewards for that place. e.g. if NSP and IoJ tie for 8th each will receive 8th place rewards.

Ya… we really shoulda just made it so every server was 1st 2nd or 3rd from day one :P