In the “first step is admitting that you have a problem” category, Blizzard has finally announced that there are issues with /teamquit. Although now that personal ratings are involved, it has become a more sticky situation:

“An issue has been identified that is sometimes causing players to be removed from the wrong Arena Team when attempting to leave a different team (being removed from the 5v5 team when trying to leave the 2v2 team, for example).

As a direct result of this some players are inadvertently losing some of their personal rating.

We expect this issue to be resolved in an upcoming patch, but we regret to inform you that our support teams will be unable to reimburse any lost ratings during this time.” -Tharfor

BG9 5v5 Invitational Tournament
On the heels of their EU Cyclone Tournament, SK Gaming is now behind the newly announced Battlegroup 9 5v5 Invitational Tournament. Top teams such as CLC and Shuttlecocks have already committed.

This will be an 8 team double-elimination tournament, best of five games format. Seeds will be given out according to rank and rating of the current arena season and past accomplishments. Sign-ups begin today (Jan 31) and will end February 5th, brackets and teams will be announced by February 6th.

Although some may be miffed at the “BG9″, “8 team”, and “invitational” qualifiers to this tournament, it’s a good start. At the very least, we will get to see some high quality 5v5 matches. And hopefully this will just be a sign of things to come as tournaments should be open to more entrants/teams when tournament servers are finally available from Blizzard.

More details on the tournament here.

Tags: PvP · News

2 Responses to “Personal Ratings Bug; BG9 5v5 Tournament”

1. asak Says:
   February 1st, 2008 at 11:10 am

   wish they had given the qualification period a heads up earlier, i’m sure many players are in between team hopping

2. Deadx Says:
   February 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm

   Blizzard strikes again and can’t even fix their own game. Lost my 1800 personal yesterday cause of the bug.

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