Armory not showing all arena teams? Could this affect calculations of "top 0.5%" - Page 2

• Maestroquark · 05/21/07, 9:55 AM

Originally Posted by Vazu

I'm sticking to what I wrote above.

Teams shouldn't count toward the total for .5% unless they are 1500 rated or better, and meet a minimum quote of games played for the season. Blizzard would decide how many total games would be enough. But something like 100-150 seems fair.

The number of games requirement is one thing. But by only counting +1500, you're forgetting that 1500 is supposed to be "average". At that point, why not just make it the top .25%?

Tehehe · 05/21/07, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by sp00n

Well, I just checked as well.
Doing so I noticed that *every single* server of my battlegroup has ~5000 teams listed on 3v3.
The armory caps at around 5000 teams, so there are certainly more. Also most of the time these teams have a ranking of ~1200, so they are not the bottom line so far.

I think you made a mistake somewhere in your observations. Your own server (Wrathbringer) only has something like 470 2v2 teams. Another server in your Battlegroup (Dun Morogh) has ~280 teams.

I'm not sure how you got your numbers, but what I did was go to the listing 2v2 listing for each server and then look at how many pages of teams there are. Each page shows 20 teams, so 20*(# of pages) is approximately how many teams are on the server.

sp00n · 05/21/07, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Tehehe

I think you made a mistake somewhere in your observations. Your own server (Wrathbringer) only has something like 470 2v2 teams. Another server in your Battlegroup (Dun Morogh) has ~280 teams.

I'm not sure how you got your numbers, but what I did was go to the listing 2v2 listing for each server and then look at how many pages of teams there are. Each page shows 20 teams, so 20*(# of pages) is approximately how many teams are on the server.

Damn, you're right. I was looking at their rank instead counting the pages and forgot that the rank displayed there is the overall rank for the battleground and not only for the server (3v3 btw).
Hm. Still the point stands how many games / ranked weeks / arena points you will need to be included in the final standings.

Tehehe · 05/21/07, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by sp00n

Still the point stands how many games / ranked weeks / arena points you will need to be included in the final standings.

Honestly, I don't think they are going to be putting any limitations/requirements on the number of games played or rating. The EU CM that posted information stated that:

"The top 0.5% of the teams of each bracket will receive the Netherdrake epic flying mount, as well as the top Arena title. This means that the top 0.5% of the teams in the 2v2 bracket, the top 0.5% of the teams in the 3v3 bracket, and the top 0.5% of the teams in the 5v5 bracket will all receive the Netherdrake and the title. "

He very specifically says "0.5% of the teams" and does not put any stipulations on the term "team". I would guess that it it will in fact be the top 0.5% of all teams in each bracket.

I am not saying that I agree with it or believe it is the best way to distribute the Drakes, just what seems most likely to me.