Aether League update: Official start date announced!

[Volene]

Get hyped! The official start date for the player-run Aether League has been set for November 12th.

If you missed the initial announcement, the Aether League is a community-run league for high-level premade 4v4 Feast, the highest level of PvP FFXIV has to offer. A tournament in this style which some of you may remember, the Aethercup, was held on May 6th and attracted over 300 viewers throughout at twitch.tv/aethercup. This time around, the League will host regular seasons with frequent matches to qualify for tournaments. Read more about the Aether League here!

Five teams have registered for the league already and many more are on the way! Until the League start date, weekly practice scrim nights are organized on Fridays and Saturdays at 7 PM PST (10 PM EST), where everyone willing to play is matched with a team to practice (Register here if you're interested in scrim nights!). If you mesh well with your assigned partners and would like to remain a team and register for the League, you are encouraged to do so - register a team here.

Every one of us is hyped with the introduction of cross-server custom Feast matches in 4.1 which allow this League to take off, we're very much looking forward to its start and we hope you are too! If you are thinking of registering a team for the League, joining us for scrim nights or simply want to stay updated on League developments and news, join our Discord server!

Thank you, and see you in the Feast!

[Nova_Rox]

I wish my groups of friends didn't all just go lolpvp so i could get a team going.

[Korihu]

I wish my groups of friends didn't all just go lolpvp so i could get a team going.

You can always sign up as a free agent! Come join on scrim nights and you can get assigned with a team of other players, and maybe you'll find a team you click with. If not, you can still come for the fun of the scrims.

[ZanzhizExaverion]

...I just want people to queue for 4v4 on Aether.

How is it even possible to get enough people for a tournament?

[Nova_Rox]

You can always sign up as a free agent! Come join on scrim nights and you can get assigned with a team of other players, and maybe you'll find a team you click with. If not, you can still come for the fun of the scrims.

Tell me more pls.

...I just want people to queue for 4v4 on Aether.

How is it even possible to get enough people for a tournament?

It pops. What rank are you? Most people, even the bad players, are at least Gold so if youre really low rank you're gonna have a tough time.

[randoom]

...I just want people to queue for 4v4 on Aether.

How is it even possible to get enough people for a tournament?

Majority of the good players don't queue anymore, but they still do Custom matches. They are the ones signing up for the tournament.

[ZanzhizExaverion]

It pops. What rank are you? Most people, even the bad players, are at least Gold so if youre really low rank you're gonna have a tough time.

I'm 600, Silver. Legit just trying to get gold for half a weapon. I've gotten one match in three nights of queueing. It's bad. Nobody queues. I don't know who you know that's queueing.

Didn't have time to queue back when it was released. It's a real shame that it's still the same garbage queue time as it was in 2.x

[Korihu]

Tell me more pls.

Yep! So we have a spreadsheet up here where you can enter your name down under Free Agents, players who find a team together can enter together as a team but it's nothing really strict and you're free to change around. You'll also want to join the discord server as that is where we organise the scrim nights, and any other casual scrims on other days. We're having scrims tonight actually I believe. Or was that tomorrow? I'm taking this week off so I forget xp



But yeah queue times issue, low ranks will probably be pretty slow because it's late in the season. Platinum and Diamond matches have been popping really often though for the past week! Lots of people playing in Diamond and Plat, you can see the top 100 board moving every day.

[Nova_Rox]

I'm 600, Silver. Legit just trying to get gold for half a weapon. I've gotten one match in three nights of queueing. It's bad. Nobody queues. I don't know who you know that's queueing.

Didn't have time to queue back when it was released. It's a real shame that it's still the same garbage queue time as it was in 2.x

Yeah man you're gonna have a rough time at that rating i really wish SE implemented rating decay that way people that can't just play like crazy to get a high rating stand a chance. I completely missed the first week, worked my way up to top 100 then had to take a month off and now im stuck in platinum myself all because of personal issues.

If ALL the top players were forced to play it would push the players that don't deserve high ranks down lower keeping all ranks popping still. At least I hope.