#0 - April 19, 2007, 2:09 a.m.
The Arena ladder page listed here: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#arena-ladder.xml?b=Reckoning&ts=5 was updated to include games played on Sunday but not to include games on Monday. Here is a screenshot of that ladder page in case the Armory updates or becomes unavailable: http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6049/tuesdayupdateyd0.jpg . These rankings should be the ones used to determine the top 3 teams, as stipulated by the official Arena rules:
Q u o t e:
1. The First Qualification Round of the Tournament. The First Qualification Round of the Tournament for the North America and European Union Region shall commence on February 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM, Pacific Standard Time and end on April 15, 2007 at 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time. Arena Teams shall compete to earn an Arena Rating based on their participation in 5 v 5 matches held in the "Arena Player vs. Player Battlegrounds" on their respective World of Warcraft Servers. At the end of the First Qualification Round of the Tournament, the top thirty nine (39) Arena Teams in the North America Region, and the top thirty eight (38) Arena Teams in the European Union Region who have the highest ratings at the expiration of the First Qualification Round of the Tournament will receive invitations to compete in the Second Qualification Round of the Tournament.
The problem is that our team which was in 2nd did not qualify, while the 5th rated team SERIOUS BUSINESS, did.
So then, the natural question is how can one prove that that Armory update was from last Sunday? Well, our team also won 5 games on Monday that raised our rating 13 points before the Tuesday maintenance.
Here is a screenshot of our game listing that’s listed on the Armory (updated through Sunday): http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6540/armory2ga8.jpg
Here’s an in game screenshot taken today which shows 2 things: 1) that we won 5 games that weren’t included in the Armory update (so the Armory could not have been current through Tuesday, it would had to have been earlier) and 2) that we didn’t play any games this week, so our higher rating of 2490 was what we were at before the Tuesday maintenance and is not a rating we just now achieved:
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2443/wowscrnshot041807193725xc7.jpg
This is unmistakable proof that Blizzard messed up its determination of the top teams from each Battlegroup. I know other Battlegroups have been similarly affected and so this needs to be addressed.