Automated tournament

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Automated Tournaments have been released for both Guild Battles. These competitions take place three times daily, and are staggered to allow players from different time-zones to take part. Competitors, by performing well through the automated rounds for a month, will have have the opportunity to participate in the tournament at the end of each month which will offer "real world" rewards.

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[edit] Ladder / Rating change in tournaments

  • The tournament system interacts with the ladder rating system, but victories in the tournament reward greater ladder adjustment modifiers (K-values), with a K value of 25. Monthly tournaments have even greater rating modifier with K=50. The current ladder system has a K=15.
  • Since the 20 March 2008 update a guild or player will now lose K value (25 for daily, 50 for monthly) rating if the guild or player signs up for a tournament and forfeit the first round.
  • Be wary that rating change for win/losses is significantly higher than in a normal rated GvG or HvH.

[edit] Tournament style

  • The tournaments are currently run as a swiss style tournament where each instance has a maximum of 32 competitors. This means that there is a maximum of 5 rounds of play. There is currently a minimum requirement of 8 parties for tournaments. If more than the maximum number of competitors sign up for a tournament, then the tournament is split as necessary and two or more instances of the tournament are created. A future feature will be that the top 8 finishers, determined by the number of Match Points earned during the swiss rounds, are invited to continue playing in elimination playoffs to determine the results of the monthly tournament. Each round the pairing is random based on the win-loss statistics.

[edit] GvG tournament requirements for participants

  • Four players must have been a member of their guild for 14 days, and a combination of up to four heroes, guests, or members who have not been in for 14 days can play for the guild. This is automatically verified. The first battle of a daily tournament sets the tournament roster for that tournament and is the list of players that are eligible for receiving Tournament Reward Points.
  • Other players are allowed to substitute into later rounds.
  • This rule also applies to Dwayna Vs Grenth tournaments.

[edit] Tournament times

GvG has tournaments which run every 8 hours. Participants are required to register within an hour before the tournament. A countdown clock is provided in the staging area, the Guild Hall, showing the time until the match starts. The competitor must have joined before this timer completes or forfeit the match and leave the tournament.

All Automated Tournaments also have wait times between rounds to allow for guilds to finish playing matches.

Tournament Start Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
00:00 EDT / 21:00 PDT / 04:00 GMT           GvG
01:00 EDT / 22:00 PDT / 05:00 GMT           GvG  
02:00 EDT / 23:00 PDT / 06:00 GMT         GvG    
03:00 EDT / 00:00 PDT / 07:00 GMT       GvG      
04:00 EDT / 01:00 PDT / 08:00 GMT     GvG        
05:00 EDT / 02:00 PDT / 09:00 GMT   GvG          
06:00 EDT / 03:00 PDT / 10:00 GMT GvG            
07:00 EDT / 04:00 PDT / 11:00 GMT              
08:00 EDT / 05:00 PDT / 12:00 GMT             GvG
09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT / 13:00 GMT           GvG  
10:00 EDT / 07:00 PDT / 14:00 GMT         GvG    
11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT / 15:00 GMT       GvG      
12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT / 16:00 GMT     GvG        
13:00 EDT / 10:00 PDT / 17:00 GMT   GvG          
14:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT / 18:00 GMT GvG            
15:00 EDT / 12:00 PDT / 19:00 GMT              
16:00 EDT / 13:00 PDT / 20:00 GMT             GvG
17:00 EDT / 14:00 PDT / 21:00 GMT           GvG  
18:00 EDT / 15:00 PDT / 22:00 GMT         GvG    
19:00 EDT / 16:00 PDT / 23:00 GMT       GvG      
20:00 EDT / 17:00 PDT / 00:00 GMT     GvG        
21:00 EDT / 18:00 PDT / 01:00 GMT   GvG          
22:00 EDT / 19:00 PDT / 02:00 GMT GvG            
23:00 EDT / 20:00 PDT / 03:00 GMT              

Match times, pairings, and posting of results to the website during tournament play will be automatically performed in a future update.

[edit] Tournament setup

  • Entry to the tournament is bought with Tournament Tokens which are purchased with Balthazar Faction. If a competitor drops out of the tournament once it has started there is no refund. Any competitor that forfeits in the first round will not be considered for prize points.
  • GvG tournament entry costs 5 Tournament Tokens.
  • Dwayna Vs Grenth tournament entry is free.

[edit] Tournament maps

  • Tournament matches are performed on a predetermined list of Guild Hall halls; this list and the order is published in the tournament description that can be found by talking to Tolkano.
  • Dwayna Vs Grenth matches all occur on its own map.

[edit] Win / Loss / Bye

  • With an odd number of competitors, the guild with the lowest amount of match points will receive a Bye, which means an automatic win for the tournament. If this happens at the beginning of the tournament a random competitor will be given the Bye.
  • When receiving a forfeit or a bye, no match is played, because of this there will be no change in rating.

[edit] Monthly Tournament / Qualifier Points

  • The top eight teams earn Qualifier Points for the major monthly tournament. 20 qualifier points allow entry to the monthly tournament. The monthly tournament is held in the last weekend of each month.
  • Placing in the top eight of the daily tournaments grants you 9-{your rank} qualifier points.

[edit] Tournament Reward Points

  • Players are also rewarded with Tournament Reward Points which will give the player access to items with unique skins. The tournament agent Tolkano grants the rewards (see Tolkano's article for a list of rewards). Top placing players earn bonus reward points.

[edit] Predictions / Xunlai Tournament House

  • GvG monthly tournaments will be available through the Xunlai Tournament House which will offer rewards for predicting the winners of the tournament.

[edit] Tournament rules

  • Newest tournament rules can be found here.

[edit] Maps currently in rotation

[edit] GvG automated tournament map rotation

1 Changed in 3rd april update
2 Changed in 17th april update

[edit] Tournament results

The first monthly automated tournament started in May 2007. The prizes and results of all the tournaments can be found here:

2009

2008

2007

[edit] Controversy

  • In the January 2009 monthly tournament, guilds Rebel Rising [rawr] and Survival Rate [zero] purposefully drew a match to advance in the tournament. The two guilds were punished by having their metallic cape trims removed temporarily. Similar behavior in the future may bring harsher punishments.

[edit] External links

Retrieved from "http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Automated_tournament"