Grand Arena Championships MEGATHREAD

"John_Matrix1985;c-1872870" wrote:
This gives players like TVF who dominate at a medium-high GP a chance to battle tougher opponents. It's only fair that the tougher the opposition the higher the rewards.

I'm all for this.

What.

"jejuzang;c-1872906" wrote:
Weren't tournaments using Global leaderboards?

no. they were completely separate. these are a series of leader boards which will contain all players and by winning you will progress through them.

Tournaments was just a different way of grouping player like the shards in arena. locked in when you get in and closed when full.

"Grand Arena matchmaking is now entirely partitioned by League."

Doesn't this mean those with the biggest rosters will get the best rewards? How will you balance this out for players with less GP?

I’m excited for it. I like GA a lot (and I get pummeled just as much if not more than i win). I think it makes you a better PVP player in general, both in arena and in TW. Can’t wait!

Is kyber league a whale league ?

There are sooo many players and only a limited number of potential opponents over 4 weeks. There’s also a huge range of GA skill within players of any small GP window.

Thus I think it pretty clear that you will only face opponents of relatively close GP and as people move up from Carbonite towards Kyber each championship you will simply face the stronger players of your GP bracket. Then the ones with inflated GP will also get to face reasonable opponents for them. Resulting in everyone having pretty appropriately challenging opponents by the end.

I am stoked for this!

Are there going to be GP brackets within the leagues? Matching someone at less than 2m with someone over 4m doesn't seem fair at all?

I suppose GP MUST still be used to determine map size right? Squads needed?

To those asking about the highest end being exclusive to whales, I haven’t read anything that suggests this. Im reading this as if there are 500 players that fit your “profile” (which could be based on GP and any of the other new tactics they have alluded to in order to improve matchmaking) you won’t see all of them, just those in your bracket. But as you will advance upward with the winners, it will become more and more challenging and the rewards more and more impressive. Happy for CG to correct my assumption though.

Nothing about matching up properly.
So more whales versus deep roster ftp idiots like me who actually upgrade characters. Great news! Sounds like one more tv hinge to make the game less fun.

I fear this is going to be Star Wars galaxy of Revans and not having these two insufferable toons will be a glass ceiling.

edit: pretty much what grand arena and squad arena are right now anyway