Seems like if you make the Bo1 easier to find, it will be more populated! Try the other way. Put Bo3 front and center and Bo1 stuff behind the "other game modes" toggle and see where players land :)
(You could probably do it as an A/B experiment, but making sure your docs are clear gets trickier that way).
The trend holds even among players who have flipped the toggle and can see both modes. Right this moment, Traditional Cube is listed above Bo1 Cube, and it's still the case.
This scheduling is us being conservative and consolidating Cube players into a single queue as activity naturally decays. Best-of-3 game modes are always less populated than Best-of-1, and if the drafts end up taking too long to fire a table or pair matches, it creates a worse overall experience for players.
That said, we'll very likely make it longer next time around. KLR Traditional Draft held up acceptably enough for two weeks, and Traditional Cube looks like it will be able to handle it, too.
Bug is also fixed now.
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We are taking very rapid action on this, thanks for the report. #wotc_staff
probably because fewer players play it and it will lead to longer wait times towards the middle-end of the event
Exactly that. More people play when the drafts first start, and it tapers down as they run. And a queue needs a certain population to sustain healthy matchmaking.
We had worried that we wouldn't get enough Bo3 players to sustain these queues at all, but did an experiment with KLR draft to see. The Bo3 contingent did show up well, and we were even able to extend the run by a week. So we're trying it again. Hopefully we'll see similar results with Cube, and can make more (and longer) Bo3 the norm.
Seems like Cube Draft is going to be ranked, this time? Last time it was it’s own event
Cube drafts listed under Premier are just the Best-of-1 style versions of those events. They will not be ranked.
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