Second arena season 2024 [Arena WoTLK]

Changes implemented during the off-season:

1. Solo 1v1 and 3v3 teams now use personal rank, replacing previous system with two types - personal and matchmaking. You can now size up a players "power" by checking his personal rank.
2. 3v3 teams are now locked for the whole season - you can not disband a team to create another one. Remember this to avoid accidental matches, that will be counted in team statistics. If you drop your rank too low you will need just few wins to restore it.
3. We added mechanics of compensation for unsuccessful 1v1 and 3v3 solo matchmaking and switching to personal rank. For example if you have high rank and lose a fight to a low rank team, you will lose less points, than it was before.
4. Improved arena logs, including web display. No more cropped fights, where you only see part of participants. Moreover, personal rank changes are now displayed for each participant.
5. matchmaking system for 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 is now more fair. It was a bit chaotic previously and we removed some random and now system will find you enemies with similar team rank. However, if there are no active players with your rank in a queue, you may wait longer.

Reference information:

Battlegroup: х1, х5, х100, FUN

Season / qualification round dates:

• Second arena season begins 15.09.24 with team reset and lasts til 07:00 GMT 15.12.24.
• После окончания сезона арены начинается межсезонье, которое длится от 7 до 30 дней, в это время мы проверяем логи, вносим необходимые изменения в правила и на сервер.

Season rewards:

2v2:

- 1 place: 20 000 bonuses for a team (10 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 14 000 bonuses for a team (7 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 10 000 bonuses for a team (5 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 7 000 bonuses for a team (3 500 bonuses to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 5 000 bonuses for a team (2 500 bonuses to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 4 000 for a team (2 000 bonuses to each member) + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 2 000 for a team (1 000 bonuses to each member) + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).

3v3

- 1 place: 30 000 bonuses for a team (10 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 24 000 bonuses for a team (8 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 18 000 bonuses for a team (6 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 15 000 bonuses for a team (5 000 bonuses to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 9 000 bonuses for a team (3 000 bonuses to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 6 000 for a team (2 000 bonuses to each member) + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 3 000 for a team (1 000 bonuses to each member) + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).

Rewards following the qualification results for solo 1v1 and 3v3:

1v1:

- 1-4 places: 4 000 bonuses to an account + Assassin title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 3 500 bonuses to an account + Lion Hearted title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 2 000 bonuses to an account + Prophet title + same forum title (as an option).
*experimental titles for current season

Solo 3v3:

- 1 place: 8 000 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option) + https://www.wowhead.com/item=46171 mount morph.
- 2 place: 6 000 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option) + https://www.wowhead.com/item=30609 mount morph.
- 3 place: 4 500 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4-6 place: 4 000 bonuses to an account + Gladiator title + same forum title (as an option).
- 7-8 place: 3 500 bonuses to an account + Duelist title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-10 place: 3 000 bonuses to an account + Rival title + same forum title (as an option).
- 11-12 place: 2 500 bonuses to an account + Challenger title + same forum title (as an option).

Группы званий:

Group 1 titles:

- Deadly Gladiator
- Merciless Gladiator
- Vengeful Gladiator

Group 2 titles:

- Brutal Gladiator
- Wrathful Gladiator

Group 3 titles:

- Relentless Gladiator
- Furious Gladiator

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General rules:

1. A player must play not less, than 20 games every calendar month of a season (if you buy/transfer character - counter is reset).
2. Skipping the first month of one season is allowed.
3. All actions, that are not a normal arena play, are forbidden (for example: not entering the arena, abusing MMR, wintrading, inactivity, playing for a cap just standing still). All of these cases will be taken to be cheating and such players will be banned.
4. Players that were banned for arena violations (cheats, scripts, mmr abuse, etc.) are not considered when making the TOP (are not considered during 6 month since ban date).
5. If a team consists only of twink characters, it is not considered when making the TOP.
6. If a team lacks members in the end of a season, it is not considered when making the TOP.
7. Number of fights of every team member must be at least 75% of team progress and not less than 100 fights.
8. When season starts you MUST NOT give your account to anyone, if we see a third-party logging into account, both who gave an account and who logged into it are disqualified if they get to a season top.
9. A teammate of such player can also be disqualified with a definite % of matches played together with a shared account, choose a teammate carefully.
10. If more than a half of 16 top teams will cheat - no one will get the reward in this bracket.
11. The personal rating difference of team members must not be more than 300, or the team neither gets their reward nor takes part in a tournament.
12. Only teams with 1900 rate and more are considered.
13. Bonus or money reward is given only to one unique account of a player in one bracket. If a player is a member of 2+ teams, he will get reward only for one of them, the one with higher rate.
14. All the teams that try to somehow get to the top with twink characters will be disqualified.
15. Characters claiming for reward (titles/bonuses/money) can not be deleted/moved to another account/sold in CP before you get the reward, otherwise you will be removed from top list and lose all the rewards.
16. Character, moved to another account, can not participate in a current arena season, if it takes a winning place - it will be disqualified. E.g. if a season starts on May 1 and a character was moved to your account on April 30, this character will be disqualified anyway, same if it was moved during a season.
17. When season ends we start an off-season for a period of 7-30 days to check logs. Every new season is now announced by separate thread in News section of our forum with corrected rewards/rules depending on the situation.
18. We opened a new forum section for all arena appeals (wintrading/mmr and rank abuse) https://forum.wowcircle.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2040. Only for arena appeals.
19. If 3v3 bracket fails after checking logs, we try to collect top-8 by moving some rules (matches played), and if we succeed, titles are given only to 1-3 places, all the participants get 3000 bonuses. If we do not succeed, no one gets the rewards.
20. Now all the titles (except Gladiator) got for seasons/tournaments, will be reset with the beginning of a new calendar year.

Administration reserves the right to change/correct the rules without players notification.