Grand Arena Championships MEGATHREAD

Great... SWGOH slips further and further into the Yu-Gi-Oh-But-With-Star-Wars abyss..
Or is it Pokemon-But-With-Star-Wars....

*Shrug* Six of one, a half dozen of the other.

I’m so excited! This is the content I been waiting for!!! Grand arena was already great to play and fun to watch so this seems like an amazing upgrade to it!

"Xtractor;c-1872880" wrote:
I like GA, but I'm not sure about how matchmaking will work in this. In regular GA we're already supposed to face evenly matched opponents. In GA Championship, will we start off facing undermatched opponents and progress to overmatched opponents? If so, I don't see the point. Why would I want to face an undermatched or overmatched opponent? The fun of GA is trying to defeat evenly matched opponents. Seems like those of us under 400k gp won't get much from this. But I'll wait and see in case I'm missing something.

It would be impossible for everyone to start off facing undermatched opponents wouldn't it?

"Salacious_B_Crumb;c-1872838" wrote:
Can we stop this nonsense right now? GA is the worst thing to be added since pvp tournaments. It's fine if you want give people something to compete in but remove all rewards and just grant titles and stupid crap like that. That way people that hate your stupid mini TW aren't forced to play it.

Lol GA 5v5 is the best part of the game

"Kantouch;c-1872861" wrote:

"Salacious_B_Crumb;c-1872838" wrote:
Can we stop this nonsense right now? GA is the worst thing to be added since pvp tournaments. It's fine if you want give people something to compete in but remove all rewards and just grant titles and stupid crap like that. That way people that hate your stupid mini TW aren't forced to play it.

It’s great that you’re so vocal about your opinion. Unfortunately, I think you’re in the vast minority. GA is an awesome mode that allows(allowed?) newer players to expedite their growth, older players to enjoy individual competition, and community members to showcase their matches for all to see. I hope you can grow to love this mode as most do.

Do you realize that only the minority of players actually visit the forum and pipe up about liking GA. Who are you so say most love it and only few dont? Thats good that you do but not everyone shares your enthusiastic veiw. While Im at it I dont like GA either. My whole guild doesnt like it.

"CG_SBCrumb;c-1872876" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1872871" wrote:
Do you get demoted for losing?

EDIT:
Seems fantastic and I’m looking forward to it

No, you cannot get demoted during a season

Do we revert back to Carbonite league every season? How long is a season?

Will this all be 5v5? Or will we get some 3v3 (my favorite).
Ships?
Also you really need to look at heros and legendary toons as part of the match making process. A player with Cls as their best toon has zero chance against Revan, Drevan/Malak and Treya no matter how many g12 zeta toons they have.

Okay, my big question is what is the purpose of feats? They look to be additional tasks inside/outside of GA that provide goodies and points towards ranking up. Is the purpose of the feat system to allow players that hit a roadblock due to skill/mods/Malak to keep getting rewards? If so that would alleviate one of my biggest concerns about the championship, namely that non-whale players will eventually hit a roadblock where they cannot climb and be forced to settle.

I would definitely enjoy knowing more about this particular part of the system.

"jedibobahutt;c-1872890" wrote:

"Kantouch;c-1872861" wrote:

"Salacious_B_Crumb;c-1872838" wrote:
Can we stop this nonsense right now? GA is the worst thing to be added since pvp tournaments. It's fine if you want give people something to compete in but remove all rewards and just grant titles and stupid crap like that. That way people that hate your stupid mini TW aren't forced to play it.

It’s great that you’re so vocal about your opinion. Unfortunately, I think you’re in the vast minority. GA is an awesome mode that allows(allowed?) newer players to expedite their growth, older players to enjoy individual competition, and community members to showcase their matches for all to see. I hope you can grow to love this mode as most do.

Do you realize that only the minority of players actually visit the forum and pipe up about liking GA. Who are you so say most love it and only few dont? Thats good that you do but not everyone shares your enthusiastic veiw. While Im at it I dont like GA either. My whole guild doesnt like it.

So because you and, according to you, your whole guild dislike therefore the marjority of players dislike GA too? That is one really silly argument.
CG has the actual data to back them up, so if they are expanding the Grand Arena i dare to say their numbers likely indicate a lot of players are participating on it, enough to justify this new PVP mode.

Weren't tournaments using Global leaderboards?