Tournament of Glory Sign-ups Delayed until Friday

#1 - Aug. 20, 2014, 9:30 a.m.

Hey all,

I’m going to be delaying the opening of the Tournament of Glory sign-ups until this upcoming Friday, August 22nd. I’ve been receiving a lot of questions regarding the Tournament of Glory and how it factors into the World Tournament Series, and I want to take some time (now that I’m back from gamescom) to write an FAQ and provide the information you’ll need to make a successful team.

We’ll also be requesting email addresses for all team members during sign-ups to help with reward distribution, and I want to give interested teams time to gather that information. As a reminder, sign-ups are handled on a first-come, first-served basis, so having this information ready ahead of time will help ensure that you’re able to reserve a spot in the tournament.

Thank you for your understanding, and let me know if you have any questions!

-Papa Groucharino the III, Esquire.

#19 - Aug. 20, 2014, 3:33 p.m.

Hey all,

Thanks for the comments. These events are a community endeavor, and I will always try to make changes that will make these tournaments a better experience for everyone. I understand where a lot of you are coming from in terms of sign-up timing, especially for those of you that haven’t had an opportunity to see how their profession would change in the coming weeks with the balance patch.

Because of the World Tournament Series event in Beijing, and everything that goes into making that a reality, we’re running on a very tight schedule. The first weekend of Tournament of Glory is scheduled for just after the feature pack – September 13th and 14th. ToG ends in October, and the top eight teams from that enter the World Tournament Series Invitational. Starting any later than Sept 13th begins to put our event at risk, as we’re already pushing the comfort zone.

I’m willing to entertain ideas/suggestions for the sign-ups and timing, but we can’t delay the first qualifier.

#21 - Aug. 20, 2014, 3:42 p.m.

Drafigo.4690:

I guess the working man will have to miss out on a tournament again. thanks!

Why does the working man need to miss out on this? You only need to play in one qualifier, which always take place on the weekend. Just curious!

#27 - Aug. 20, 2014, 4:34 p.m.

Eurantien.4632:

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I’ve made some clarifications in my last post. Sept 13/14th is the first qualifier for Tournament of Glory, which follows the same exact format as Tournament of Legends. The top eight teams from ToG participate in the Invitational.

Edit: As mentioned in the OP, I’m working on an FAQ for the World Tournament Series. The conversations we’re having here are helping me write it.

#34 - Aug. 21, 2014, 4:49 p.m.

The next Ready Up after tomorrow’s will actually be next week – we’re going two weeks back to back. This will give you ample time to sign-up ahead of time and request a roster change if you feel that it is necessary.

#40 - Aug. 21, 2014, 6:51 p.m.

As a note, we’ve extended the amount of time the sign-ups will be open by a few days to help you guys out with team creation. Our partners Mistpedia and DPS have also agreed to allow roster changes up until 24 hours prior to your team’s qualifier.

This will be detailed in tomorrow’s blog post.

#42 - Aug. 21, 2014, 7:50 p.m.

lilz shorty.1879:

Why must we elongate everything in gw2. If the balances previews for the classes are up and youve made short clips, why not show them in bigger groups instead of just showing 2. Also ToG ends in October? So we are going to have a ToL2 Repeat yet again? Why must these tournies take so long.

Allow me to clarify. The video for the last two professions is not done. Unless you want to watch Karl in front of a plain green screen, there’s no way we can show it tomorrow. These videos each take ~3 hours to film and another 8+ hours to edit. On some weeks, the video wasn’t even exported until the same morning we showed it on the stream.

We opted to do two at a time so as not to overload both you and Karl in the preview. If you look back to when we did previews live, one of those episodes was almost 2 hours long, and by the end they were trying to speed through in order to keep it from going longer. Both you and we didn’t think it was fair to the people who play those professions that were rushed through, nor was it fair to have to sit through two hours of a stream to see your profession’s changes. We feel that this format provided a better means of communicating these changes. We can now devote the appropriate amount of time to each profession and showcase the changes without having to wait for Karl to change builds and move between locations on the map.

#47 - Aug. 22, 2014, 11:29 a.m.

Annnnnnnnnd we’re live:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/sign-up-for-the-tournament-of-glory-today/