Best of the Best - Early favourites?

[Silentone]

On the flip side had we not made some changes we would have had to 1) set a higher level cap for competitors 2) capped the # of players who could compete or 3) had a single server competition span over two nights to allow all competitors to have their turn. All three of these things would have been extremely unfair and inconvenient to the players. Many many players take time off from work and or stay up late (some past 4am their time) in order to participate in their servers Best of the Best. In fairness to all players who wish to compete we need to keep the matches capable to be run in one night, in the shortest possible time. Most tournaments currently take anywhere from 6-12 hours. (anyone remember the Paladins?) With our growing high level population we want as many as possible to compete, in order to do this we decided to remove one thing that would shorten the matches and make the Gladiator rely on his/her skill over an item. Did we want to do this? No of course not. We would rather let you use what ever item you wish too, we know how much hard work goes into obtaining these items. We are working on future events where you can use all your items unfortunately that isn’t the case for the Best of the Best.

this text seems to indicate the reason for not allowing regen items was to save time. I do not think we have the same issue because we do not have the same volume of players, any thoughts on this Ambrotos?

And again thakn you for your time.