Arena Season 19: Harvest of Champions

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Congratulations to all participants and winners from the previous season!
 
But wait, what exactly is "the Arena?"
 
The Arena is the competitive mode on BGA. If you master a game and want to play it competitively, this is THE mode to use, so you can challenge the best players and get the most experience points.
 
The Arena is organized in seasons of 3 months each. Achievements are awarded to the best players at the end of each season.
 
To play in the Arena: select "Play" and then choose "Arena" instead of "Simple game."
 
Read more about Arena mode
 
Arena format and Gurus
 
In the previous seasons, it was you (more exactly the gurus) who chose the game formats for the Arena: player number, options used, ...
 
We are very happy to see that this way of doing things contributed to making the Arena more popular: thank you to all gurus for their smart suggestions and their votes!
 
Rules updates
 
No Arena rules are changing this season. It does not mean we are 100% satisfied with how the Arena is running, but you seem to appreciate the current rules so we want to keep them as they are for now.
 
Season 19 is NOW Launched.
 
The new Arena is now open for its new season.
 
Some Explanation About: Relegations
 
At the end of each season, after winners have been awarded, you are relegated.
 
Some custom relegation rules may have been applied to games for some reason (ex: we decided to update the number of leagues), but in general here is what happens:
 

• For games with 6 or 5 different leagues, all players are decreased by 3 leagues.
• For games with 4 different leagues, all players are decreased by 2 leagues.
• For games with 2 or 3 different leagues, all players are decreased by 1 league.
• For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena points is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500.

 
It's up to you to find the way to the elite!
 
May the odds be ever in your favor!
 
You'll find soon below the updated options for each game for this new arena season

[BROT42]

6 nimmt!:

• Number of players: "6" (prev: "5")

7 Wonders:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "5")

7 Wonders Duel:

• Expansion: Pantheon: "Yes" (prev: "No")

8 Masters' Revenge:

• Master selection: "Random selection" (prev: "Player selection")
• Martial techniques (fury): "Enable martial techniques (fury)" (prev: "Play without fury")

99 (trick-taking card game):

• Scoring style: "1 Round per player (with end of round bonuses)" (prev: "9 hands")

Abandon All Artichokes:

• Artichoke counts: "Display artichoke counts for all players" (prev: "Do not display artichoke counts")

Abyss:

• Leviathan expansion: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

After Us:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Age of Champagne:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Wine Merchant difficulty: "Jeroboam — Easy" (prev: "Methuselah — Medium")

Akropolis:

• Variants: "All variants" (prev: "None")

Apocalypse at the Zoo of Carson City:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")
• Game variant: "General's variant (no mutants)" (prev: "Standard")

Art Decko:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

Assyria:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Automobiles:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")
• Bag Contents: "Show Full Details of Cubes in your Bag" (prev: "Show Exact Number of Cubes in your Bag")

Azul: Summer Pavilion:

• Fast scoring: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Backgammon:

• Match length: "3 points match" (prev: "1 point quick game")
• Doubling cube: "With doubling cube" (prev: "Without doubling cube")

Bag of Chips:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Bandada:

• Use hidden scoring card: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Barbu:

• Type of deck: "32-card deck" (prev: "36-card deck")
• Salade: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Beyond the Sun:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Bids:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Big Monster:

• Hide live scores: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Big Time Soccer:

• Game length: "Short Match" (prev: "Standard")

Big Two:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Boomerang: Australia:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

Bärenpark:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Canvas:

• Painting with Vincent: "enabled" (prev: "disabled")

Caravan:

• Game length: "Normal game (all cubes)" (prev: "Short game (remove 3 of each common good and 1 of each rare good)")

Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Carnegie:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Wait Option: "On" (prev: "Off")

Cartographers:

• Map: "Random" (prev: "Map A")

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

CATAN:

• Variant: Friendly Robber: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Caverna:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

City of the Big Shoulders:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")
• Advanced Rules: "No" (prev: "Yes")

Clans of Caledonia:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Coal Baron:

• Delivered cards visibility: "All" (prev: "Player only")

Color Pop:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Coloretto:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Connect Four:

• Board size: "9x9" (prev: "8x9")

Cribbage:

• Skunking Points: "1 pt regular, 2 pts skunked, 3 pts double-skunked (lose by 61 or more)" (prev: "All games worth 1 point")

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Variant: "Standard Game" (prev: "Knight's Tournament")

Crypt:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")
• Collector Cards: "A side" (prev: "B side")

Dice Forge:

• Dice Forge Rebellion: "Titans Module" (prev: "Cards only")
• Tiebreaker: "Yes" (prev: "No")
• Remove 6 gold die face: "No" (prev: "Yes")

Dice Hospital:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Dice Theme Park:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Dingo's Dreams:

• Game Difficulty: "Basic: No Hazards" (prev: "Normal: 3 or 4 Hazards")

Dobro:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Dou Dizhu:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Draft & Write Records:

• Draft Mode: "Casual" (prev: "Competitive")

Dungeon Petz:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")
• More Foresight: "Regular Foresight" (prev: "Maximum Foresight")

Dungeon Roll:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Dungeon Twister:

• Game Setup: "normal" (prev: "simultaneous")
• Cycles Setup: "unlimited" (prev: "4 Cycles")

Egocentric World:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

EKONOS:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

El Grande:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")
• Exclude Veto: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Eruption:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Evolution:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Exit Strategy:

• Race Mode: "On" (prev: "Off")
• Fast Mode: "On" (prev: "Off")

Expedition: Northwest Passage:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Exploration: Warzone:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Factum:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "6")

Farm Club:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Festi’vibes:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Fleet:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Florenza: The Card Game:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Framework:

• Game length: "Normal" (prev: "Very short")

French Tarot:

• Minimal bid: "Guard" (prev: "Small")

Gear & Piston:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Gin Rummy:

• Big Gin: "31" (prev: "Disabled")

Glass Road:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "1")

Glow:

• Side of the board: "Random" (prev: "The Archipelago of Darkness")

Go:

• Method of counting: "Japanese" (prev: "Chinese")

Go Nuts for Donuts:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Goblin Hood:

• Number of win required: "2" (prev: "1")

GOLDblivion:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Guildes:

• Variants: "Event cards" (prev: "Event and Dirty Trick cards")

Hand and Foot:

• Ratio of natural to wild cards in completed melds (7+ cards): "Ratio of at least 4:3 natural:wild (max 3 per 7-card meld)" (prev: "Ratio of at least 2:1 natural:wild (max 2 per 7-card meld)")
• Completed melds required to go out: "2 clean/2 dirty (wild melds not allowed)" (prev: "2 clean/2 dirty (wild melds count as clean)")
• End of round report timer: "Continue after 60 seconds" (prev: "Continue after 30 seconds")
• Team colors: "Each player is uniquely colored" (prev: "Players on the same team have the same color")

Happy City:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Harmonies:

• Nature’s Spirit cards: "On" (prev: "Off")

Hawaii:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Heat: Pedal to the Metal:

• Choosing upgrades: "Snake draft" (prev: "Draft")
• Pro Legends (faster legends): "+3" (prev: "+2")

Heckin Hounds:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Herrlof:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Hidden Leaders:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Homesteaders:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Humanity:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Hungarian Tarokk:

• Declarer trulls in three are: "Automatically scored without playing" (prev: "Not treated specially")

Imhotep:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Innovation:

• Cities of Destiny expansion: "Enable" (prev: "Disable")
• Echoes of the Past expansion: "Enable" (prev: "Disable")

Iwari:

• Feats: "All feats" (prev: "No feats")

Kabaleo:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Initial Pieces: "Even" (prev: "Random")

Kami:

• Game Modes: "Kami" (prev: "Soldier")

Khronos:

• Hold'em: "On" (prev: "Off")

King of Tokyo:

• Number of players: "6" (prev: "5")
• Halloween: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Koi-Koi:

• Koi-Koi multiplier: "Hard Koi-Koi" (prev: "Soft Koi-Koi")
• Cards of the month: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Konane:

• Board size: "8 × 8" (prev: "6 × 6")

Krosmaster Arena:

• Format: " BGA Season 19" (prev: " BGA Season 18")

Kulami:

• Scoring variants: "Biggest Areas & Lines" (prev: "Standard")

La Granja:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Las Vegan:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Legendary Inventors:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Line It:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Linx:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Living Forest:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Expansion: "Kodama" (prev: "Base")

Loco Momo:

• Expansion A: Animal and protected habitat: "On" (prev: "Off")

Lost Explorers:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Lost Ruins of Arnak:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Lucky Numbers:

• Setup: "Easy setup" (prev: "Michael's setup")

Luxor:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Maatatahay:

• Setup: "Basic (The First Game)" (prev: "Standard")
• Shrine relics openings: "Uniformized" (prev: "Random")

Maracaibo:

• Setup: "Medium (story card 76)" (prev: "Hard (story card 77)")
• Prestige Cards: "Reveal all" (prev: "Standard")

Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Black dice variant: "No" (prev: "Yes")
• The Caravans Expansion: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Mercado de Lisboa:

• Money - Visible/Hidden: "Hidden" (prev: "Visible")

Metro:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Micro Dojo:

• Play Mode: "Regular" (prev: "Advanced 2A")

Mod Ten:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Mojo:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Variant: "Two discards" (prev: "No variant")

Mountain Goats:

• Big Mountain Expansion: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

MOW:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Mythic Battles: Ragnarök:

• Draft pool: "Limited draft" (prev: "All units")

Neom:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

New Frontiers:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Newton:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Master Cards draft: "Draft" (prev: "No draft")

Nidavellir:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Number Drop:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Obsession:

• Market Churn: "Seasonal Market & Building Boom" (prev: "Building Boom - Queen Victoria")
• Expansion: "Wessex & Upstairs Downstairs" (prev: "Wessex")
• Low VP Value Monuments: "Yes" (prev: "Base")

On Tour:

• Board: "Europe" (prev: "USA")

P.I.:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Papayoo:

• Shifting discard (variant): "Disabled" (prev: "Enabled")

Pax Pamir: Second Edition:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Pax Renaissance:

• Starting map: "1550 Map Variant" (prev: "Default")

Pente:

• Overtime capture: "Disabled" (prev: "Break the line")
• Mixed capture: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")

Ponte del Diavolo:

• Board Size: "12 x 12" (prev: "10 x 10")

Praga Caput Regni:

• Action Tiles: "B-Side" (prev: "A-Side")
• Random Kings Road Effects: "enabled" (prev: "disabled")

President:

• Automatic turn skip: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")
• Same suit sequence: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")
• Reversing 9: "Enabled" (prev: "Disabled")
• Unskippable 2/3: "Disabled" (prev: "Enabled")

Puerto Rico:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Pugs in Mugs:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Quantum:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Map and cube count: "Random 6 cube advanced map" (prev: "Random 6 or 7 cube advanced map")
• Include community contributed maps: "Include community contributed maps" (prev: "Exclude community contributed maps")
• Include huge maps (bigger than 5x5 map tiles): "Include huge maps" (prev: "Exclude huge maps")

Queens & Kings... A Checkers Game:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")

Quirky Quarks:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Race for the Galaxy:

• Expansion: "Base game" (prev: "Alien Artifacts (no Orb)")

Railways of the World:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")
• Game Map: "Railways of Europe" (prev: "Railways of Mexico (Max 4 players)")
• Include Railroad Executive Operation Card: "Include" (prev: "Exclude")
• Railways of Mexico Optional Railway Operation Cards: "Disabled" (prev: "Enabled")
• Bidding Style: "Traditional" (prev: "No bidding - Worst is First")
• Empty City Marker count changes: "No reduction" (prev: "Super Slow +4")
• Initial Cube Reduction: "Default for map" (prev: "Yes Reduction")

Rauha:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Syntyma Shamans: "Without" (prev: "With")
• Syntyma New Gods: "With and only with new gods" (prev: "With")

Red7:

• Victory condition: "Points (standard game)" (prev: "Points (quick game)")

Reflection:

• Maximum time to solve a puzzle: "5 minutes" (prev: "10 minutes")
• Items: "16 items" (prev: "20 items")

River of Gold:

• Clans Patrons Mini Expansion: "Draft Setup" (prev: "Disabled")

Sahwari:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Guild Camels placement: "Manual" (prev: "Auto")
• Score calculation: "At the end of the turn" (prev: "At game end only")

Seasons:

• Difficulty level: "Archmage Level + All expansions (no ability tokens)" (prev: "Archmage Level + All expansions + Promo cards (no ability tokens)")

Shogun:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")
• Show the cubes inside the tower: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Signorie:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")
• Shorter Season (6 Rounds): "Off" (prev: "On")

Space Base:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

Space Empires: 4X:

• Scenarios: " - NORMAL 2-PLAYER MAP" (prev: " - SMALL 2-PLAYER MAP")

Space Station Phoenix:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Sparts:

• Game length: "Standard game (400 points)" (prev: "Quick game (200 points)")

Splash Down:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "2")

Splito:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Spot it:

• Mini-games: "Triplet" (prev: "Well")

Spyrium:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Steam Works:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "4")

Stir Fry Eighteen:

• Tofu Promo Card: "On" (prev: "Off")

Sushi Go!:

• Pass both ways: "On" (prev: "Off")

Takenokolor:

• Garden sheet: "Random (all)" (prev: "Random (difficulty 3 or 4)")

Tea Time:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Terra Mystica:

• Landscapes expansion: "Off" (prev: "On")
• Game board: "Base Game" (prev: "Random")
• Fire and Ice - Final Scoring tiles: "Off" (prev: "Random")

Terra Nova:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• 2 players variants: "No" (prev: "Planner Variant")

Terraforming Mars:

• Prelude: "On" (prev: "Off")

The Castles of Burgundy:

• Setup (player boards): "Identical (random) board for all players" (prev: "Random board without board 8")
• Edition: "First edition" (prev: "2019 edition")

The Gnomes of Zavandor:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

The Great Split:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

The Isle of Cats:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow:

• Number of players: "12" (prev: "8")
• Expansion: The Village: "On" (prev: "Off")
• The Pyromaniac: "On" (prev: "Off")

The Wolves:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

Through the Ages: A new Story of Civilization:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Tic-Tac Match:

• Matches: "Single Match" (prev: "First to win 2 matches")

Ticket Gagnant:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Meeting length: "Long" (prev: "Short")

Ticket to Ride: Europe:

• 1912 Expansion: "Europe Expanded" (prev: "Disabled")

Tiny Farms:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Tiny Turbo Cars:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Longer track: "Yes" (prev: "No")

Tiến Lên:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Tokaido:

• Crossroads: "On" (prev: "Off")

Tortuga 1667:

• Number of players: "5" (prev: "4")

Tournay:

• Mode: "Advanced" (prev: "Normal")

Trellis:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Turn the tide:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "5")
• Non dealt weather cards: "Hidden" (prev: "Visible")
• Played cards: "Hidden" (prev: "Visible")

Twin Tin Bots:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")
• Rocks: "A few" (prev: "None")
• Teleporters: "A few" (prev: "Many")

Ultimate Railroads:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")
• Railroads: "Asian" (prev: "Russian")

Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype:

• Variant: "Classic game" (prev: "Rule of Chaos")

Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe:

• Scenarios: "France 1944" (prev: "USSR 1941")

Unrest:

• Variant: "Capitol variant" (prev: "None")

Uptown:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "4")

Veggie Garden:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

VektoRace:

• Number of players: "4" (prev: "3")

Welcome To:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

Welcome To New Las Vegas:

• Number of players: "3" (prev: "2")

Yokohama:

• Number of players: "2" (prev: "3")

[miklomike]

Can you please provide more transparency for rewards? Display what top trophies will be awarded based on current player count and how much xp will be rewarded for reaching each level.

And have the xp rewards been reduced AGAIN? Last season I got 1200 for elite in Marian Dice. This season only 400 points for the same. It has over 1100 players when I received it.

Piraten kapern last season I got 1200 for elite and this season was only 600. It has 1800 players when I received it.

Llama two seasons ago I got 1200 for elite with 1396 players, last season I got 600 points for elite with 1329 players and this season was only 400 points with 1269 players when I received it.

I look forward to figuring this out.

The games that give even less I still don't understand. For small player base games many are very hard to reach elite and yet they award only 120 even if they have the same % of people in elite vs total players as popular games. But everyone and their brother can get 1200 for playing can't stop.

[Respublik]

#1203: 99 (addition card game) got broken somehow a week before the end of last season and remains unplayable in the arena.

There is some sort of non-existing No preferences (Change) button that has nothing assigned...

[SidK26]

I suppose there's a relevant forum for this as well, however posting this here to reiterate the importance:

"Penalise Arena points for inactivity" / "Promote active play throughout the season"

While the whole point of Arena, as I read on the summary page is to bring the actual top player to the spotlight and fight it out, cuz ELOs could be stagnant and not be indicative of true and live calibre. That said, with the current format of Arena people still camp at the top in the first few days/weeks and not play the next few months.

While one could argue that other could climb up too, this argument isn't holding in games where there is a lot of luck involved. Eg: Captain Flip. Playing the last two seasons I see that one could go on a luck spree (ofcourse takes some skills too) and shoot to the top with that momentum, and even more so, fall deeper. In such cases 'camping' if you're lucky enough isn't true to the spirit of the "Arena". So, provide some impetus to the players who do this to keep playing throughout.

TLDR: At the Elite level, if you don't play for a week (or X number of days), you'll start losing arena points, say -10 per day, until you play again in the arena.

[AshleyShea]

Is there a page where I can see my Arena ranking for each of the games I play in Arena mode?

[Patrick of the Isles]

I suppose there's a relevant forum for this as well, however posting this here to reiterate the importance:

"Penalise Arena points for inactivity" / "Promote active play throughout the season"

While the whole point of Arena, as I read on the summary page is to bring the actual top player to the spotlight and fight it out, cuz ELOs could be stagnant and not be indicative of true and live calibre. That said, with the current format of Arena people still camp at the top in the first few days/weeks and not play the next few months.

While one could argue that other could climb up too, this argument isn't holding in games where there is a lot of luck involved. Eg: Captain Flip. Playing the last two seasons I see that one could go on a luck spree (ofcourse takes some skills too) and shoot to the top with that momentum, and even more so, fall deeper. In such cases 'camping' if you're lucky enough isn't true to the spirit of the "Arena". So, provide some impetus to the players who do this to keep playing throughout.

TLDR: At the Elite level, if you don't play for a week (or X number of days), you'll start losing arena points, say -10 per day, until you play again in the arena.

I think I've seen this sort of proposal mentioned occasionally in the past, but so far it doesn't seem convincing to me. Suppose a player plays many games in the first month of the season and then plays no games the final two months, while another player plays no games for the first two months and then plays many games in the final month. If the two players played the exact same number of games with the exact same outcomes, it would seem logical to me for them to have the same resulting competitive score. But under a decay system the second player would have a much higher score despite the exact same performance.

[frogstar_A]

I suppose there's a relevant forum for this as well, however posting this here to reiterate the importance:

"Penalise Arena points for inactivity" / "Promote active play throughout the season"

While the whole point of Arena, as I read on the summary page is to bring the actual top player to the spotlight and fight it out, cuz ELOs could be stagnant and not be indicative of true and live calibre. That said, with the current format of Arena people still camp at the top in the first few days/weeks and not play the next few months.

While one could argue that other could climb up too, this argument isn't holding in games where there is a lot of luck involved. Eg: Captain Flip. Playing the last two seasons I see that one could go on a luck spree (ofcourse takes some skills too) and shoot to the top with that momentum, and even more so, fall deeper. In such cases 'camping' if you're lucky enough isn't true to the spirit of the "Arena". So, provide some impetus to the players who do this to keep playing throughout.

TLDR: At the Elite level, if you don't play for a week (or X number of days), you'll start losing arena points, say -10 per day, until you play again in the arena.

If you did that all that happens is I'll play only the last two weeks of arena instead of only the first two weeks

Why are wins at the end in the spirit of the arena and wins at the start not?

[Vandaley]

Thurn and Taxis is on a rotation and should have rotated to 3 players.

[Mephisto_IV]

Why have you locked the option of the expansion Pantheon to be mandatory for everyone? Under these circumstances, I will not participate in the new arena season... I'm totally disappointed.