Eliminate preview phase for grand arena

"Thumper8842;c-1717287" wrote:

"Gannon;d-189612" wrote:
I understand that the preview phase for TW is useful to three matchmaking system, so there is a full 24 hour defense phase to match opponents in the background, but it seems unnecessary for grand arena.
Can't you eliminate the preview phase in grand arena and go straight into defense placement instead?
Staring at an empty empty board for an extra 24 hours seems pointless for grand arena.
Is there some reason it's there?

Eliminate Grand Arena...

Don't get me wrong, I love the tournament concept.. But I mean really, why not auto-enter everyone and eliminate the preview phase (Can still show up in upcoming events like tb, and do the lock at the start of the event), then everyone is entered and defense placement is necessary if you want rewards (Prevent totally empty boards by populating teams if necessary, such as their last recorded ls and ds team in the two sectors. Only need the two, and those are recorded anyway), then match opponents based on the highest tiers of gear they have on characters rather than gp (if you have 40 g12 and 10g11, find a similar match. If you have 13 g7 and 9 g6, match with that).

Personally, I think they should only allow use a team once across the whole event, to make strategy even more important ('marathon' vs the current 'sprint' of my metas against yours), and shrink the board each round accordingly. But they won't do all that..