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Hey all, Sireph from Mistpedia here,

Mistpedia formed in 2013 with a focus on providing a platform for the Guild Wars 2 community to compete, grow, and have fun together. When Blu, Kenigmatic and I first put together the plans to form an organization to promote the scene, we made it our mission to serve the PvP community and its needs. One of those needs today, unfortunately, is to address the issue of recent accusations of favoritism and bracket fixing by Mistpedia in Tournament of Legends 2’s EU finals towards the most recent addition to our organization’s family, Team MIST.
Mistpedia first approached the team then known as The Civilized Gentlemen because we felt it was a great opportunity to work with a consistent group of people who were willing to put in as much work into perfecting their gameplay as we were with putting out tournaments and events. Both sides decided this would be the best course of action and Team MIST was created. To us, this team was not only a group of strong and talented players but ambassadors to Guild Wars 2. They are personalities that we felt, if given enough support, could inspire more people to play and that could only benefit the scene. The players would help us grow the Guild Wars 2 scene through entertaining livestreams and content that. We still feel this way.
Today players have accused us of changing seeding into the Tournament of Legends 2 EU Finals for “no apparent reason”. The issues of Conflicts of Interest (CoIs) have been brought up as well, and these are not topics that we take lightly. To answer any questions about CoIs first, we looked to the examples of established eSports organizations in other games for the best way to conduct ourselves. We maintain that it is possible to host large events as a team organization. Examples of this in StarCraft 2 are prevalent in Team Liquid’s TSLs and Evil Geniuses Master’s Cups, both events that netted players thousands of dollars and had players from the hosting teams competing in them. We have realized, however, that our community may not be ready for an organization like that. At the end of the day Mistpedia is here to serve the Guild Wars 2 Community’s best interests. So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that Mistpedia and Team MIST are parting ways. This is clearly not the outcome we wanted but splitting the organizations seems to be the best course of action at this time.
To address the other accusation, that of bracket fixing. Some players believe that the seed of Cheese Mode was changed without reason, giving Team MIST an unfair advantage going into the finals. The original post assumes that Cheese Mode was to get the fourth seed and this assumption is just flat out incorrect. The way we were seeding teams was never disclosed to the public until Cheese Mode approached us. It was explained that due to their great performances in ESL Weekly Cups, their seed was decided to be 2nd. I spoke to our head admin, Olrun, and he explains it far better than I can:

“The main goal of bracket seeding is to make sure teams place where they deserve. In an eight team bracket, you want the top 4 to win their first match, the top 2 to win their second match, and the best team to win. In the past, tournaments were seeded based purely on observation. The community has almost unanimously agreed that the leaderboards were inaccurate. However, in the Tournament of Legends 2, we decided to try something different. We used the peak leaderboard rating achieved by the players to give us a baseline and made minor alterations to that. The reasoning behind the alterations was that the peak leaderboard rating method didn't seem accurate at the extremes. On the lower end, this was irrelevant because they were all grouped in the bottom 16 of each bracket. However, on the high end, the inaccuracy was relevant. For that reason, we made changes based on team performance.

In regards to the finals brackets, Team Mist won the first Tournament of Legends. It would take significant proof to unseat them as 1st seed, and I can't say that we've seen that. However, the point of brackets is not to screw over one team or another. Cheese Mode does not dispute that they deserve a seed higher than 4th.

However, this is not to say that we don't acknowledge the COI in these situations. That is why we've decided to implement a publicly accessible ELO system. Future MP tournaments will be seeded with this ELO system. More about it will be released soon, but rest assured that we do acknowledge the issue.” - Olrun

I spoke with players today about the peak leaderboard rating system and it is clear that many if not most players do not like it. Since that’s the case, we’re getting rid of it and have been planning to for a while. Olrun said that we would release more info on the new rating system soon but I’m going to give it to you now.

Click the following link to read about the rating system we will use in the future:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y29 … 0U2aE/edit

So what happens now?

Effective immediately, Team Mist and Mistpedia are parting ways. We still believe in the massive potential of the squad and wish them the very best. They have a pedigree of working with established competitive organizations already and we hope that in the future they will continue to play at and exceed the level they are now.

More transparency across the board.
We want you all to feel more involved in the competitive community. We want you to feel listened to. As such we are implementing the new ELO System. Updates from the Mistpedia crew will be more frequent and we will actively seek feedback from top teams.
We want to hear your feedback so please let us know what you think!
You can email events@mistpedia.net for event specific topics or rule related issues.
Reach the crew on twitter @Mistpedia or on facebook.com/Mistpedia
My personal email is always open. You can email will@mistpedia.net any concern and I’ll do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Finally we are going to impose the following rule on ourselves:
All Mistpedia Staff are prohibited from participating in Mistpedia tournaments outside of weekly cups.

Again, we started Mistpedia to give the community more room and tools to grow. This is a game and scene that we love dearly. We have supported it through thick and thin and will continue to do so. If you’ve got any questions, comments, flames, or otherwise, my inbox is open for you.

-Will ‘Sireph’ Abreu
Co-Founder, Mistpedia