GvG Automated Tournaments

There are several problems on tournaments in my opinion, some being more important than others, but all being linked together :

- There are too many guilds registering, 2/3 being forfeiters usually.. I suggest we make sure that a guild needs 975 rating to participate a tournament( i guess 975 will be fair for everyone)

- Due to previous point, GvG tournaments are way too long... 4-5 rounds AT take over 2 hours seriously...( not going to argue about MAT) and besides it's boring having to wait 30mn when everyone already won by forfeit or fast...
This is to be argued, but i would suggest to reduce GvG matchs time by 5-10 minutes... because then, it could create more strategies and diferent builds..
As well, it could lead to ties, something that never happens anymore

- AT times are poorly made: either it's noon( lunch time), either it's close to midnight. Basically, someone having a work life cannot play any AT entirely.. It would be cool to do better time rotation( like previous day time minus 1-2 hours) so that, everyone could find an hour to play it...At the moment, euros can only barely do C AT, Asians cannot do any, and americans got 2 tournaments( C and A) really close...

- Match Up's have some issues. I noticed earlier in B At that a 3/1 guild got a Bye whereas 4/0 guild( that never faced them) faced a 2/2 guild... ( fyi, there were 5 guilds playing the AT)

- Reward system needs a change... you don't get any if you're not doing the 1st round... and besides, i don't believe 24 rps for being 3rd( 4/1 guild told me they got 53) after 2 hours 30 is fine....

- There should be more incentives to play GvG At's... usually, it's only about top guilds and i rarely see any unknown guild or low ranked ( which is not a smurf) playing seriously(i.e not having 6 afks in base).. I suggest to make a game announcement 1 hour before every AT to explain players that registration is about to start.

Waiting your comments

I agree completely. One of the best features that could be added would be a check to see if all GvGs in a round have completed. Really quite often, all the matches in a round will finish long before the half hour round finishes (often as much as 10 minutes before the round would end). It would be really nice if the live team could implement a check so that if every match in a round finishes, the round automatically ends. This could EASILY reduce a 3-4 round AT by as much as half an hour.

Reducing the long wait times would do a lot I think. Cutting down on forfeit guilds would help there, as would having a check to see if all matches are finished.
As for boosting activity, I'm not sure what you can do there; activity is so low in GvG.

I don't see any reasonable solution to this. Why don't you do what everyone else does, play ladder matches in between? Twice the number of matches, twice the fun!

We tried to do, but you obviously know what's happening :
- between A and B, there is no fight no opponent
- between C and A, it's midnight
- ladder fights are coming a few hours before C starts, but like i said , that just shows that euro evening is active and rest is completly empty.... ( you can make an analogy with HA, since when HA is active, GvG normally is too, and the opposite ;; you can guess the situation in GvG when people are syncing halls from 1 am till 3 pm...)

Simply making shorter GvG matchs would completly change everything( people need to change their attitude and build if they don't want to end up on a tie, if they do want the tie, then strategy involved change , etc...)

2 hours and half facing the 2-3 same guilds on B AT is too tiring and usually you play maybe 40mn upon those 2 hours and half...that's not good