A warning to players participating in the Snowball ATS this year

Wintersday will begin soon. It's possibly going to begin next weekend, maybe as late as the Tuesday or Wednesday before the 25th.

It's important then that if you want to participate alongside your friends or Snowball buddies in the Snowball Tournament, you need to get yourselves in the proper guild ASAP. At this point, you won't be able to meet the 2 week requirement of being in your guild to be considered a guild member if you have to switch, but the sooner you get yourself where you need to be, the better. Not everything is lost if this can't work though; you only need to have four people registered as "guild members" to enter the tournament.

Just a heads-up, in case you forgot. Enjoy your Snowball this year!

Edit: The requirements for entering GvG tournaments have changed since last year. You now only need to be a part of your guild for seven days to be considered a legitimate member. Registration requires two of these members as well as six filler players (henchmen, guests, guild members). The same rules applied to Daily GvG tournaments apply here, which you can read about on the wiki here.

Good point sir.

Man I sure am glad the 14-day rule was implemented. It sure stopped all of those smurfs dead cold and had no negative effects anywhere else in the community!

Praying for the dwayna / grenth balance helps as well.

oh yeah, lol. thanx for the reminder ;-)

Nice heads-up, timely warning. Good of you to remind folks.

Nice heads up. This post will definately prove usefull for those who want to do the snowball ATS but have no guild.

Crap....I have to join a Guild now????

Town: Looking for invite to Guild for the holiday snowball ONLY!!!

^Yeah for the ATS...but you ofcourse do regular snowball

They better change the god specific skill this year. Dwayna snares were OP.

regarding just the start of it... I guess I expected the announcement already - maybe tomorrow. /shrug
Last year began on the 19th (Friday before), which would be the 18th this year.
http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/wintersday2008/

One year later, and I figure I should remind you all again.

Well played contest.

I'm interested in how many teams will over complicate the tournaments again this year. Took all the fun out of it when people tried to "balance" a team of set bars.

LF guild for snowball at.

Do you really blame people for "over complicating" things when there's thousands of dollars at stake?

Not interested in playing snowball ATs
DnD bots will win every AT for the 3-4 guilds that use them

What matters to me is that they should FINALLY balance the Avalanche vs Yellow Snow skills. It's been an glaringly obvious problem since 2005 and it's far more significant when there are tournaments with high prizes decided on who gets which side.
Anyone from TK here knows if they're finally touching the issue? Testing better balance or ignoring again?

And bots should be just reported, this year at least they care and send Dhuum for the botters. But aren't the at winning guilds just using macros not bots?

Isn't snowball AT just too smash-head-against-a-wall- frustrating with all the bots? And there's too few staff members to do anything about it, especially at Christmas time.

Lol, good luck in reporting player's skill. Doesn't any1 wonder why we never got banned since more than 2 fkn years.

They should better balance Grenth/Dwayna and make them RANDOM in Finals. Match manipulation sucks.