Guild Wars 2

Obligatory Hype Video

As of today (April 4th) the signups for the Guild Wars 2 Tournament of Legends are now OPEN! Everyone is welcome to participate, so join in and compete for your shot at a legendary weapon!

The link to signup is down below, but before you submit, please make sure to read through the rest of this post for all relevant information for our participants. Most of this info is also available in a video format here

IMPORTANT DATES

• April 14th at 6PM EDT (3PM PDT, 00 CEST): Official signup period ends, anyone that signs up past this will be placed into the backlog.
• April 15th: List of Teams playing in the main event and the order at which teams will be added via the backlog will be released on the mistpedia article (Please keep in mind the amount of bracket slots will more than likely be extended assuming we have enough teams)
• April 19th: European Brackets released on the article
• April 26th: EU Cup Begins, North American Brackets released on the article
• May 3rd: NA Cup Begins

STREAM TIMES
Players: Please keep in mind (especially if we extend beyond 16 teams per region) that actual tournament play may start one to two hours before this, so please make sure you are available. We will be releasing start of play times on the 15th.

• EU (26th-27th April): 16 CEST, 10AM EDT, 7AM PDT
• NA (3rd-4th May): 22 CEST, 4PM EDT, 1PM PDT

The stream, which can be found here will go from the start of the tournament until the Semi-Finals on the first day. The second day of play will resume at the semi finals and go until the tournament is complete. This may change if the brackets are extended, but for the time being this is the plan.

The rest of the rules can be found here

Any other questions you guys have feel free to ask them here or contact a MP Administrator. See you on the field

SIGNUPS

NOTE: If you need to change your roster DO NOT submit another form. Please contact john@mistpedia.net with the information instead.

Policy on Roster Changes: Before the signup cutoff players may change rosters as actively as they wish. After signups close, players may change up to 2 players (this does not include adding missing main roster players and/or making your substitute one of your main players). If more than 2 are changed then that team will loose their spot. After the brackets for the team’s region comes out NO roster changes will be allowed.

NA BRACKETS

Was curious what criteria is the deciding factor in which teams get to participate should more than 16 teams sign up.

I’m a little bit confused. Previously was said that
quote “We’ll open sign-ups to everyone, but only 16 teams per region will make it into the Tournament (subject to change)”,
so for me was obvious that there must be some kind of qualifiers before tournament to exclude weak teams like my own, but there is not even one word about qualifiers to the tournament, so i assume that if there will be 100 teams signed up, so brackets will be extended to accommodate all teams ?

Style.1092:

I’m a little bit confused. Previously was said that
quote “We’ll open sign-ups to everyone, but only 16 teams per region will make it into the Tournament (subject to change)”,
so for me was obvious that there must be some kind of qualifiers before tournament to exclude weak teams like my own, but there is not even one word about qualifiers to the tournament, so i assume that if there will be 100 teams signed up, so brackets will be extended to accommodate all teams ?

That’s the impression I got from the RU, despite how unrealistic that sounds to execute. I imagine there would be some sort of qualifiers if we get over 16 teams but I guess we’ll see how many sign up and commit.

I remember anet saying they’d love it if 100 teams signed up to participate. That obviously wouldn’t be able to fit into 1 weekend of tournaments, though.

My guess is they will pick whoever is highest ranked/more known. I do believe they should give a chance to everyone, even those who didn’t PvP much in the past.
They could just make it 16/32/64 or whatever number of teams. Have some teams already qualified and others to do one qualification match to fit the number format.

Easy, takes 10 minutes to set up. Let me know if you need help with it…

I’m never able to compete in these tournaments because of the forced time you need to play your matches on. Have you guys ever considered having tournaments where teams can schedule their matches with the other team? (there would be a default match date and time I’m case both teams couldn’t agree on set time). I’m sure I do not stand alone on this…

hahaha if you guys really think more than 32 teams will register than you’r out of your mind. I predict 14-16 teams tops registering. Even if more than 16 teams register, they can always make them play the matches without the match being streamed.

Super.2749:

hahaha if you guys really think more than 32 teams will register than you’r out of your mind. I predict 14-16 teams tops registering. Even if more than 16 teams register, they can always make them play the matches without the match being streamed.

85 full teams last time I checked the document, that was about 12 hours ago.

Edit: just checked again were at 114 full teams :P

BLUna.7928:

Super.2749:

hahaha if you guys really think more than 32 teams will register than you’r out of your mind. I predict 14-16 teams tops registering. Even if more than 16 teams register, they can always make them play the matches without the match being streamed.

85 full teams last time I checked the document, that was about 12 hours ago.

Edit: just checked again were at 114 full teams :P

Where 110 of them are PvE-Guilds.

How are teams selected?
Average ladder rating top to down? Random?

I hope this want be a tournament of pve guilds…

114 teams… Don’t stream anything up until the quarter finals please.

lol so over 500 PVE players wants to take part in a pvp tournament. This will be fun lmao!

imagine if ANET does this legendary tournament every month. I think pvp would get flooded and HEART OF MIST WON’T HANDLE THE NUMBERS!

Super.2749:

hahaha if you guys really think more than 32 teams will register than you’r out of your mind. I predict 14-16 teams tops registering. Even if more than 16 teams register, they can always make them play the matches without the match being streamed.

Nice call.

Well I forgot to add PVP before teams. So yah probably 8-10 PVP teams rest pve

Super.2749:

Well I forgot to add PVP before teams. So yah probably 8-10 PVP teams rest pve

there’s like only 8-10 legit pvp teams to begin with so…. you’re not wrong? grats?

Super.2749:

lol so over 500 PVE players wants to take part in a pvp tournament. This will be fun lmao!

Over 5000 and 15 chars!

Super.2749:

Well I forgot to add PVP before teams. So yah probably 8-10 PVP teams rest pve

Just admit you were wrong and move on.

Team Good Fights will be present.

Hopefully we get more than 4k viewers to start to reach half of the pokemon twitch numbers. #esports

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

Flumek.9043:

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

yes, when you signup (so long as it’s done before the cutoff) will not affect your chances of getting in.

BLUna.7928:

Flumek.9043:

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

yes, when you signup (so long as it’s done before the cutoff) will not affect your chances of getting in.

Why are we not allowed to know by what criteria you decide which teams will participate?

^cus everyone will be able to participate.

Rezz.8019:

BLUna.7928:

Flumek.9043:

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

yes, when you signup (so long as it’s done before the cutoff) will not affect your chances of getting in.

Why are we not allowed to know by what criteria you decide which teams will participate?

The teams for the most part will be randomly selected. Some teams with prior tournament experience will be given entry regardless (Good Fights, 55 HP Monks, etc). This was my own decision. I did not want teams which have been preparing and practicing for an event like this getting screwed over by the randomization, at the same time I also wanted to try and be as fair as possible to everyone else signing up.

In regards to doing preliminaries I feared it would be too hard of a task to complete with the amount of teams we are dealing with. Some players may have not had CAs to use for their preliminary games, some teams may have tried to falsify results (I have had this happen in the past with much smaller events), it would have created more issues than it would have solved.

I again however want to reiterate that the brackets will be extended beyond 16 teams. We will extend it to as large a number that we can handle with our staff on the day of, and I am actively recruiting more staff now so we can handle more teams.

MR LAW PLEASE! POSI LOVES HIM!
Also Car Crash will be back for this tournament but only for this tournament before we move on again since there is nothing to play for after this tournament
Would be nice to have good teams like TP and CM back
TCG is already back. maybe having CC and TCG back will get the other good teams back for this tournament at least?

Well the only players who care about legendaries are pve players anyways…
Prepare to see a whole lot of hambow, decap engi, pistolwhip thief, terrormancer…

The tournament is after the patch, so we will have to wait and see how the old builds will do in “the new meta”. I like it, because it means that people with brains will have advantage with their new builds (assuming they’ll have time to test them).

But anyway, do you really think that pve team of cookie cutter builds can win the entire tournament? Please….

BLUna.7928:

Flumek.9043:

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

yes, when you signup (so long as it’s done before the cutoff) will not affect your chances of getting in.

Is current leaderboard placement of your team members important for whether or not you get in? It’d be kinda sad to see teams with members in the top 200 being tossed out for people who have never played before.

infantrydiv.1620:

BLUna.7928:

Flumek.9043:

114? 60 per region already…

If I signup till 14th well still get equal treatment on whatever criteria they later decide right?

yes, when you signup (so long as it’s done before the cutoff) will not affect your chances of getting in.

Is current leaderboard placement of your team members important for whether or not you get in? It’d be kinda sad to see teams with members in the top 200 being tossed out for people who have never played before.

But those top 200 people have a chance to play any tourney really, while those who never played before can’t. And this is their chance to compete and maybe even become a hardcore PvP future champion pvper. I believe that for this particular tournament rank, how known you are or leaderboard placement should not be important. (I’m usually around top 100 btw so I’m not saying this to give myself better chances).

I believe that this is one tournament where everyone should have equal shot at, even those who win all tournaments all the time. Give everyone a chance. Also, I hope it will be publicly known how exactly the teams were selected. Which ones were randomed and how, and which ones were selected right away.

Also, I hope they will put in some extra effort and extend the tournament to whatever number is needed to have as few as possible teams who will not make it in. Even though it might mean that many matches of first round or two won’t be streamed and the tournament might have to be extended for another weekend, it is worth it. But it’s up to mistpedia guys to decide what they want.

@Rezz,

I would prefer if all teams were allowed to compete and were eliminated fairly. However: All new teams have a chance to participate in both the weekly ESL and Mistpedia NA tournaments. The fact is that a team who struggles to be ranked in the top 1,000 of the leaderboards will get absolutely crushed by top teams in this tournament.

I’m expecting there to be ~200 teams by the cut off date for registration, which is quite a lot of matchmaking and game observation that would have to be done by the admins. I think when Arenanet planned this tournament they obviously were not expecting this level of interest.

What would be nice is that any team with the majority of the players in the top 200-300 gets a free pass into the tournament and then anyone below this still has a chance to qualify in a series of preliminary rounds hosted a week beforehand.

Everything is free. Many new and unknown teams have registered and many more will register for this tournament simply because it is free and there is nothing to loose here. Also this event is quite motivating: a PvE based legendary item as reward plus precursors usable mostly with PvE.

In my humble opinion, to limit the teams there should have been set an entry fee, such as 10 gold per team. As such, only teams that really like PvP would register and waste that gold. Also the gold could have been added as reward after the event. But this is just my opinion.

I wish they would just put some qualification round like a weekend before the tournament starts. They could match teams based on their skill level so it’s as fair as possible. Winners get to play in the main tourney and losers don’t. And of course, couple selected teams would not need to go through this but they would be in right away.

Also the tourney itself I hope that first round it won’t be all good team vs bad team. I hope that at least first round can be matched in a balanced way so everyone has a fair chance to pass it. However, after that there should be no mercy! Just randomisation.

That would solve all problems imo.

@BLUna.7928

The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) official channel #Mistpedia @ irc.quakenet.org was lost, I do not know when and why, I only saw it empty and unused. I allowed myself to register it back. If someone from Mistpedia Staff wants it, I will gladly transfer ownerships you.

This is just an info to inform Mistpedia owners about this security issue. The Mistpedia.net website has no way to contact their official staff by email, and that is why I use this forum.

Lol its quite entertaining looking at the worrisome everyone is having about being let into the tourney, how the rounds should go etc…….

However @Rezz if all the good teams eliminated each other before the quartefinals/semi’s, it would be a boring semi finals and finals. They need to have some kind of seeding.

Acrisor.8097:

@BLUna.7928

The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) official channel #Mistpedia @ irc.quakenet.org was lost, I do not know when and why, I only saw it empty and unused. I allowed myself to register it back. If someone from Mistpedia Staff wants it, I will gladly transfer ownerships you.

This is just an info to inform Mistpedia owners about this security issue. The Mistpedia.net website has no way to contact their official staff by email, and that is why I use this forum.

Yeah it’s been awihle since we have used that. Ive edited the contact article. Posted this on another thread as well but if you guys have questions or concerns you can email me at john@mistpedia.net

Ok. channel registration removed. Mistpedia channel IRC no longer available for support.

So basically the consensus in this thread is to punish people who want to try out tpvp and took the effort to form a team? I thought this tournement should bring in some fresh air, pls enlighten me.

Bart Weird.9671:

So basically the consensus in this thread is to punish people who want to try out tpvp and took the effort to form a team? I thought this tournement should bring in some fresh air, pls enlighten me.

My impression is that people are torn on the issue since almost no one agrees on how it should be handled.

Personally I think there should be qualifying matches that allow all teams the ability to make it to the final 16/32.

Lux.7169:

Bart Weird.9671:

So basically the consensus in this thread is to punish people who want to try out tpvp and took the effort to form a team? I thought this tournement should bring in some fresh air, pls enlighten me.

My impression is that people are torn on the issue since almost no one agrees on how it should be handled.

Personally I think there should be qualifying matches that allow all teams the ability to make it to the final 16/32.

I agree with you but former teams shouldn t have a saved slot.
Not bc they don t deserve one but to have an equal playing field.

In my humble opinion, seeing as it’s Blu who is:

• Tasked himself with finding help in filling the role of game admins.
• Apparently not receiving custom arenas from Anet to host preliminary matches for unlimited players to slug it out.

I find it quite strange that people could possibly request for everyone who signs up to be accommodated.

Chaith.8256:

In my humble opinion, seeing as it’s Blu who is:

• Tasked himself with finding help in filling the role of game admins.
• Apparently not receiving custom arenas from Anet to host preliminary matches for unlimited players to slug it out.

I find it quite strange that people could possibly request for everyone who signs up to be accommodated.

In the RU anet said they’d love to see 100 teams sign up and participate.

If CA’s are the problem I’m sure there are dozens available to him if he asked. If its admins or help scheduling, the help is there if he cares to ask.

What’s your solution to the issue, then? Completely random? First come first serve? Highest ranked teams/players? Reserve spots for 1-2 teams and RNG the rest?

Lux.7169:

What’s your solution to the issue, then? Completely random? First come first serve? Highest ranked teams/players? Reserve spots for 1-2 teams and RNG the rest?

Live with whatever Blu feels is most feasible based on how much energy he intends to invest in this completely awesome and thoughtful event for the GW2 community.

Chaith.8256:

Lux.7169:

What’s your solution to the issue, then? Completely random? First come first serve? Highest ranked teams/players? Reserve spots for 1-2 teams and RNG the rest?

Live with whatever Blu feels is most feasible based on how much energy he intends to invest in this completely awesome and thoughtful event for the GW2 community.

Yeah because you will have a guaranteed spot in it so why should you care.

This has been advertised as a tournament available for everyone, but the way it stands out now it is not. Many many people will just waste their time forming a team, planning, rescheduling their jobs if they have them on that weekend and everything.

Why does someone who wins and participates in tourneys all the time have more right than some newbie who wants to try it out and start pvping? I believe that everyone should have equal chance for this tourney because that is exactly how it has been advertising. So stick to your promises.

If we had working leaderboards for the teams then this would be so much easier..First x teams get to participate.I dont undesrtand how this game doesnt have this feature yet.I find it as important as individual rating.
If its random we are gonna see some very hilarious moments in this tournament :P
I also find ,letting known teams have free pass also very vague for my liking too.
Either use a system to rank people (some formula based on current leaderboards for each member) or go all the way and rng EVERYTHING.
Now the latter option is completely stupid and could leave well known players able to produce good matches out..but its a nice way to see easily how bad rng is even if its done for the rest of the competitors

IMO if he can’t handle the task at hand then there’s plenty of others who can step up to organize this event. It’s really not that complicated.

Anet said they would love to see 100 teams enter and participate. They even implied that if 100 teams entered then all teams would be accommodated.

Lux.7169:

IMO if he can’t handle the task at hand then there’s plenty of others who can step up to organize this event. It’s really not that complicated.

Very well said.

Ok I am very scared of this “randomization” thing Blu mentioned… my team was recently put together and hasn’t participated in any previous events, yet we are expecting to seriously compete in this competition. If we don’t get in the tourny after a month of work due to pulling the short stick it will be extremely frustrating.

Darek.1836:

Ok I am very scared of this “randomization” thing Blu mentioned… my team was recently put together and hasn’t participated in any previous events, yet we are expecting to seriously compete in this competition. If we don’t get in the tourny after a month of work due to pulling the short stick it will be extremely frustrating.

And then imagine seeing random pve scrubs (too harsh words.. i know :P ) playing against good fights at first round. Just because there are a few good teams left doesnt mean the rest of the population is the same.There are bad players..and then there are even worse