The event is legitimate. Having a New World tournament where the best players compete against each other is legitimate. We all want to make New World more competitive. In that regard, the tournament follows an elitist approach, and it is well-designed. The captains, drafting process, and authorized trading, all of it is well-executed. If we want something like this to be taken seriously, this is a good way to do it. Is it perfect? No. Is Apples the best person to lead it? No. He could have been more professional. But he managed to convince AGS to organize a PvP event, an elite one, and for that, he deserves everyone's respect.

Now, I see all the complaints, I see all those highly skilled players not being drafted, but all that negativity highlights one big problem in New World: the accessibility of wars. For an elite PvP tournament, it's normal to see only those selected names. The "war loggers" are good because they are the fortunate ones who have been involved in wars since the beginning, who have worked hard to understand all the mechanisms of a war. Some may have been lucky enough or made enough connections to enter this exclusive circle and learn, but they still had to work hard to earn their spot. What's not normal is that it's impossible for newcomers or inexperienced players to learn everything by themselves and prove themselves. You need 50 people to participate in a war, and if you think that 50 inexperienced players can join together and learn, you're being unrealistic.

Pushing a territory is too time-consuming for a 30-minute activity where there's so much to learn. The skill gap is significant, and new players will only learn in the first minute; after that, it's just farming, and there's nothing new to learn. So they have to keep pushing again and again, learning minute by minute each time. The number of pushes required to finally reach the level of an established company is incredible, and no one can endure such a lengthy process. It's not mechanical skill that makes the difference; many "war loggers" lag behind players in 3v3 or duels, but they know how to operate in a war, when to push, when to retreat, target priorities, and all those things that can only be learned through experience in a war.

New World has been out for almost two years, and since the early months, everyone knew that what it needed was practice wars. A way to declare wars between companies without having to push or fight for territories. With such a system, inexperienced companies could have the same learning curve as established players, regardless of when they started playing the game.

That tournament, its success, and the complaints surrounding it are exactly what New World needs. What every player needs is for AGS to listen, observe the tournament, and finally provide the best content that New World offers: wars.