November mAT Commentary - Updated with Commentary and Interview Recordings

Due to the popularity of last month's mAT commentary, we are continuing to cover the mAT finals. This is a great way for new and prospective PvPers to learn how GvG works, meet some top players, and ask questions!

This event will take place November 20th at 12:30 PST

Spectators should be in any town or outpost international district, and join us on Guru's Mumble server to listen in on the commentary. If you do not currently use Guru Mumble, you can download it here and set the address to 69.164.205.88

On joining Guru Mumble, you should mute your outgoing sound (microphone) or set up push-to-talk and enter the GvG Observers channel under GvG Commentary.

Join us on our IRC channel #gwgpickup at any time to ask questions about PvP and GvG, or to find guests. Our commentators and other skilled players will be taking questions throughout the event via IRC. Our IRC channel information is as follows:
You will need a program like xchat or mIRC to get into the channel, and both of those websites have setup guides. The channel info is as follows:

• Server: irc.gamesurge.net
• Port: 6667
• Channel: #gwgpickup

For those of you who would prefer to not install a client, instructions for using the web client are available.

If you are unable to come or miss parts of this event, the entirety is being recorded for your convenience and a link will be provided once available.

We hope you will join us on IRC and Mumble and get involved!



Match and Interview Recordings - Here

Hopefully this will go well again, the announcement on Log-In should be adjusted, 12:30 PST would be the actual time

Why is mAT so early this month?

I've tweeted Arenanet. Maybe someone within TK could get this little oversight to Arenanet?

Hitsuji, the following weekend is Thanksgiving for Americans.

ArenaNet is aware of the discrepancy so it should be corrected soon.

The fault is ours as we had a miscommunication between the planning staff.

The mAT is usually the last saturday of the month. It's pushed up a week this month, I believe, to prevent conflicts with the Thanksgiving weekend (and the ingame events that accompany it).

I have to work that day but I should be able to catch the last part. Just a quick question though...does the MaT Final happen at 12:30 PST or is that when the whole tourney starts? I think I remember last month that the actual final was later in the day and if that's the case, I should be able to be there for that. Keep up the good work guys, I'm really enjoying the commentary.

The tournament starts earlier, but this event only covers the quarterfinals onwards.

Awesome.. anything to give GvG more advertisement in the community is needed.

soo what are u guys doing to ensure every1 gets synced to the extra time?

If you mean same time in observer, joining same district when they say it on mumble gets you in the same obs.

If not i don't know what you're asking

its not a guarantee that every1 will be in same time when doing that

As last time, these obs were being entered as soon as they went up. So there was only one version available, so they entered the same copy of obs provided you were in international district.

Obviously if you don't enter within 2 or so minutes you could get a different obs. But entering the same time is very reliable, so long as you are in same district.

Good stuff, kudos to Anet showing some more interest for GvG lately and my compliments to the people that made this happen. I'll definitely be tuning in if I can make it.

good thing, just makes gvg interesting for guys like me ;P
thanks.^

oh, is it the onlyevent happening this weekend?

edit: yea, i meant whether there's such a double-it weekend or stuff like that

The standard weekend bonus (ie double green drops) should run this weekend as usual if that is what you mean. As for other player-run events, I am unsure. You can find a listing of some player-run events in the Community News Forum here on Guru.

Five minutes is the cutoff. If you enter before that (from anywhere, any district) you will be in the same obs as those who started it. Enter later than that and you will start a new one.

Tombs weekend. That's going to be irritating.

How so?.......

That wasn't the case for me. My obs seemed to be delayed by 30–60 seconds from the commentary obs.