Blizzard puts Hall of Fame in the Armory
by Mike Schramm 
Jul 13th 2007 at 2:00PM
Well it's not quite a row of statues, but, as Elizabeth mentioned the other day, Blizzard has created an Arena Hall of Fame over at the Armory. They've compiled, from season one, a list of all the teams that finished in the top .5% of their team bracket, and they're all browseable by battlegroup or realm.Unfortunately, they don't show many overall stats-- I'd like to see, for example, the numbers of teams from each battlegroup or realm (checking my own realm shows me that no teams made it, but you'd have to check every single realm to see numbers across the board). Do you think PvP realms turn out more successful Arena teams? I'd also like to see the average rating of the teams that made it-- just a random browse across realms shows that you'd have needed at least a 2200 rating in 5v5 to get in. The highest teams hit around 2500, it looks like, and here's an interesting point: The arena rating is based off of chess' ELO system, and in that system Gary Kasparov, the best player in the world, was the first to break the 2700 rating. So my guess is that we'll see generally higher ratings than these in season two, and so on.
Anyway, a nice little tribute to players who were successful in season one. Hopefully, we'll see better insights coming out of these numbers than Blizzard has provided here, but in the meantime if you want to see who on your realm is a heavy hitter, the HoF is the place.
Filed under: Guilds, Odds and ends, Blizzard, PvP
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PyroAmos Jul 13th 2007 2:14PM
Why don't they just rename it World of Halo Wannabe? God forbid a the focus of a rpg involve killing npcs, rather than 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, frag-fests. Every WoW update i've seen nowdays sickens me more.
ben1778 Jul 13th 2007 2:19PM
Sickens you? What a sensational reaction to a small piece of news. Seems like a little overkill.
I bet this idea was in the works since people got a little miffed that they will lose their arena title when the new ones get handed out. The big question was "Well how am I going to display that I was a heavy hitter in season 1 arena when it's season 3?" or something along those lines.
This is a nice way to placate/commemorate the players in Arena season 1 who had titles or performed very well.
Freehugz Jul 13th 2007 4:15PM
#1 all the PvE content is fine as is. PvP content has alot of problems with it, hence all the pvp patches. To do something like this for PvE is just pointless.
Kryptonls Jul 13th 2007 9:22PM
Still nothing for us European WoW'ers.....