Grand Arena byes lose out of multiple rewards, 100's of currency, & 1000's of championship pts

"Mephistopheles;c-2016842" wrote:
Ok, maybe you have to join each week for each round, I haven't verified that, but you definitely do not have to join each of the 3 battles per round. I need to be convinced that each of the 4 rounds of 3 battles have to be joined to stay in the GAC, there is no evidence saying different right now except what the developers said, which could easily be wrong.

No evidence, besides the developers and every single person posting in this thread, but yeah truly no proof at all that it's the case!

1st off, how are people getting multiple byes? This needs to be fixed if it’s true. Byes should be rare, and should never be given to the same players.

2nd, you get max banners for a bye. We know this is true because we literally see it on the leaderboard. You do lose out on usually 1 feat and the others become a little more challenging with fewer battles but not impossible. You did not lose out on thousands of points. Most people gain points with a bye. Only the really elite players will be given fewer points than they average.

"Bulldog1205;c-2016606" wrote:
1st off, how are people getting multiple byes? This needs to be fixed if it’s true. Byes should be rare, and should never be given to the same players.

2nd, you get max banners for a bye. We know this is true because we literally see it on the leaderboard. You do lose out on usually 1 feat and the others become a little more challenging with fewer battles but not impossible. You did not lose out on thousands of points. Most people gain points with a bye. Only the really elite players will be given fewer points than they average.

This is their 2nd post on it and I've yet to figure out how they come to that math.

"Mephistopheles;d-219640" wrote:
The 1st two Grand Arenas I got 3 byes, giving me 5 of the 8 individual battles.

My championship score after the 1st 2 Grand Arenas was: 29,291

Dividing my score by 5 gives me the average I scored per individual battle: (29,291/5) = 5,858.2

Thus, I lost 5,858 pts per bye (17,574.6 pts total) plus feat currency, divison rewards, and final event rewards.

In conclusion, getting a bye does not give you anything, contradicting the developer's comment and screws you out of thousands of championship pts, good rewards, and GA currency. It totally sucks!

You know there are only 3 battles per GA right? Which means you actually battled in 3 of 6 rounds.

Also, no, you did not miss out on 5800 points per bye. That is an impossible score, even in Div 1. I believe max banners from def and off is 1959, with 1600 for winning, meaning 3559 per round (not including feats).

now assuming you mean 8 battles (including the current GA round), then you would have gotten 10677 from the byes and 18614 from your own performances. This would be an average of 3722.8 including any feats you have accomplished.

Just to reiterate, you are most definitely getting points from a bye. The max points possible from 5 rounds without any feats in Div 1 is 17795, and yet you have 29291.

congrats on getting a bunch of free points with no effort

I guarantee you that I did not get max banners/pts for a bye, I got 3 in the 1st 2 GA's, I should know.

"Mephistopheles;c-2016611" wrote:
I guarantee you that I did not get max banners/pts for a bye, I got 3 in the 1st 2 GA's, I should know.

File a bug report then. We can see via leaderboards what happens when people get a bye.

I might be mistaken about the number of rounds per GA, if its 3, then I lost:
29,291/3= 9,763 times 3 byes missed = 29,291, half my score.

"Mephistopheles;c-2016611" wrote:
I guarantee you that I did not get max banners/pts for a bye, I got 3 in the 1st 2 GA's, I should know.

if you didn't get max banners than your 29k banners would be impossible to achieve. This is a mathematical fact based on the maximum number of banners from off, def, and winning.

"Mephistopheles;c-2016619" wrote:
I might be mistaken about the number of rounds per GA, if its 3, then I lost:
29,291/3= 9,763 times 3 byes missed = 29,291, half my score.

This somehow makes less sense than all the other nonsensical math you have posted today

I am only referring to the 1st 2 official GA's, I am not including the current GA.

That is reason I am posting this, I GUARANTEE I did not get max pts per bye, I got nothing for the last bye.