Q u o t e: Should the tournament realms 3 - 8 still be down?
These realms weren't meant to be visible and they aren't being brought up at this time. We continuously prepare ourselves to meet the needs of our player base and part of this means having extra realms available if they needed. We have put a lot of effort into the growth of all of our realms since the launch of World of Warcraft and we always want to be ready for any situation that comes up.