Guild Wars 2

For those that have signed up check your emails/challonge accounts now! Signups are still open but those that signed up have been added to the bracket. Email was sent to team member 1. You MUST confirm your participation on Challonge! If neither team member recieved a message feel free to contact me in game and we can sort it out.

Also, brackets currently on challonge are NOT what they will be on the date of the tournament. The brackets will be shuffled before the tournament starts

Hey guys just wanted to update. In regards to the map after speaking to a few people about it I am going to be keeping it on Temple for now but as this is the first of many tournaments we will probably changing the map up from week to week. In regards to what is defined as a bunker I am going to update the OP later with more specifics on that.

Heyo everyone! We’re here today to announce the GW2PvPTV 2v2 Tournaments! This is something that we at PvPTV have been organizing for a bit, and were just about ready to start! Starting on the first official date, we will be having these on a weekly or biweekly basis giving you guys plenty of opportunity for competition. The first tournament will be held on the 23rd of November! Starting at 2PM EST Anyone is welcome to sign up. The tournament will have 16 teams and run on the following format:

• All matches will be fought in the cave on Temple of the Silent Storm
• All games will be played on NA servers
• All games Best of 3
• Grand Finals will be Best of 7

We’re also proud to announce that this tournament will have regular prizing provided by ArenaNet! The winning team members will each receive one 2000 gem card and second place team members will also be receiving one 800 gem card.

We have a set of rules that players must follow. Please keep in mind these rules only apply to this specific tournament (2v2 #1) and that the rules may change for future tournaments. Please make sure to abide by them to ensure maximum flow and fun for all competitors:

• Teams may not consist of the following compositions:
  * Double Bunkers (see below rules for clarification on this)
  * Any Class Stacking
  * Minion Necro and Spirit Ranger (on the same team)
• If a team consists of any of the previously listed compositions they will be given approximately 10 minutes to change violating parts of the composition. If they cannot complete this task in the time allotted the team will be disqualified.
• Once a player is stomped, he or she may not rejoin the fight or join the spectator team. Players that do this will be disqualified.
• Players may not make use of any form of Hacking, Mods, or Game Exploits as defined by the Guild Wars 2 User Agreement
• No Purposefully avoiding combat (otherwise known as delaying/stalling). Admins will decide when and if players are stalling. First offense is a warning, Second offense will give your opponents one point, Third offense is Disqualification. Example of stalling would be abusing stealth or other mechanics to clear combat and regain health.
• Each team must be standing at opposite ends of the cave when the round begins
• If a player willingly leaves the cave (bottom of the staircase), The opposing team will be given one point. Being CC’d onto the staircase does not count so long as the player promptly returns to the main battleground
• Players have 5 minutes to change builds between rounds. We recommend players have multiple characters of the same class prepared so that they may be ready to switch in a timely manner if they wish.
• Admins will determine bunkers on a build by build basis, but as a general definition it is defined as being able to soak up, negate, or redirect massive amounts of damage while having a much lesser focus on damage output. For example a 0/0/10/30/30 Cleric’s Amulet Guardian would probably be considered a bunker, but a stealth focused mesmer would not. Please keep in mind that this is a very loose definition, and once more admins will have the final say on if a build is a bunker or not.
• Admins reserve the right to change/alter the rules at any time

And that’s about it guys! Sensotix and I are looking forward to casting this and seeing some intense action! The tournament will be live on PvPTV . If you would like to sign up, all you need to do is fill out the form at the bottom of this post. We will be choosing teams randomly to give everyone a fair chance to compete. Good luck to all and were looking forward to seeing you live!

SIGNUP FORM

As silent reiterated above, a premade team like the one these guys went against usually cant actively deal with cheese like that. There is another video Im uploading on Thursday where they get beat by FML (2nd place finishers of the vVv tournament). Please do not take this video as a benchmark for balance.

Thanks for all the comments guys! ^.^

Here is the most recent video that I pulled from the session we did on Monday night…

Enjoyluck.2618:

Here is proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDhWCwlXX20

To comment on this…. The five warrior team went up against FML later in the night and got destroyed by FML.

Dont get me wrong I too believe the warrior could go with some changes but this should not be used as a benchmark for their state.

Edit: Worded that post poorly.

Steppenwolf was the one that took it over however he has been MIA for a few weeks now due to his internet acting up. I believe thats why it hasnt happened recently.

cymerdown.4103:

Nice shoutcasts, BLU, I think your play-by-play has gotten a lot better than from when you first started a few months back. Glad that you keep pushing GW2 PvP forward, keep up the good work!

thanks

Hey guys just wanted to post to let everyone know I’m putting out three videos a week (all shoutcasts for now, may be doing some guides if I get spare time) and there is a chance to win 800 gems once per week on all the videos All you have to do is comment on one of the videos and subscribe to the channel once per week and you will be entered to win! Check em out!

Heres the most recent one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNobB1pNXM

Also: If anyone has feedback to improve shoutcasting go ahead and leave it here!

GW2 Should be released (officially) in China within a few months I believe. From what my friends in the beta there tell me there are A LOT of people interested in PvP there!

So tournaments (or as they are now called “arenas”) are the more competitive form of PvP. In order to play in one you need to open up your PvP menu, then I believe on the second tab is the place where you can queue up for arena games. Solo Queue will count toward the same achievements as Team Arena. In Solo Queue you enter the arena as a solo player and are matched with 9 other solo players to go against each other in a 5v5 on any of the maps (excluding capricorn). When you have a friend or a full group of players you can go into the Team Arena where the group you enter the queue with will be paired with another premade group to go against on any one of the competitively viable maps (Forest, Khylo, Temple, Legacy).

Hope that helps ^.^

Pretty sure they mentioned a week or two ago that they were going to do it on Oct 15th instead, he probably just forgot to edit the post.

Hahaha it’s a huge trophy that clobbers them that’s good Also that song was perfect :P

Pretty good to see a generally even split among most classes (except Ele ofc). Mesmer representation was a little low but I think its going to swing back over the next few tournies

kitten s.7421:

I want to know how many viewers their were. I need a good laugh.

Around 1.5 thousand, but keep in mind that it was announced only 2 days before the event and held during what was a very inconvenient timeslot for many people IMO.

Divinity.8041:

any help on my initial question?

I think someone is currently working on compiling them into a more presentable document, standby for a few days and Ill try to squeeze it out.

Super Psyched! Taking the train to NYC tomorrow

Exxxxxcelent

You can add me to multiclass streams as well under NA now, you have me listed under EU Engi from when I used to play on teams :P

http://twitch.tv/blu42

From what I understand its going to take a few days for their admins to get everything sorted out (obv it wont be 3v3 or 6v6) but then it should be kicking off for any teams that want to battle it out. Definitely looking forward to see who comes out at the top of the ladders though

Good News Everyone!

http://gamebattles.majorleaguegaming.com/pc/guild-wars-2/

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Having an odd issue (I believe this started happening after the Queen’s Jubilee Patch) where when I load into a populated area or I am playing in one such as WvW or LA that sound effects randomly decide not to play. For instance in WvW Ill only hear a few sound effects every second even in very large fights where in the past I would hear the ginormous amount of sound coming from a zerg. This also tends to happen in smaller areas randomly such as SPvP as well… anyone else having similar issues?

• CPU: i7-4770k
• RAM: 8GB DDR3
• GPU: Radeon HD 6950
• Mainboard: Asus Z87-Pro
• OS: Windows 8 (I tried to re-install 7 and it happens on here as well so not an optimization issue)

It’s rather preposterous to expect ANet to ban people (in fact this game would be mocked relentlessly if they did do this because I have never even heard of something so crazy) for using TS/Mumble/Vent/Skype/etc in a solo queue, because while yes they can be using it to sync solo queue (and if they are they would find another way to communicate anyway because they are already pretty low life), more than likely they are (like me) using it to have general conversations with their friends while playing like a normal person would usually do.

ANet could implement an in-game Voice chat, but that would require heaps of effort and time put in game by the already buckled down PvP staff, and IMO there are far more pressing issues than that at the moment. League and most other competitive games function fine without in game voice chat through the use of pings and text chat (which this game has), so I see no reason to expend resources on developing it in this game

This is NOT on the 11th, This will be starting in mid August but there is no concrete date yet. Announcement should follow soon