Oh dear god, what a mess the initial match-ups will be.
Considering how much of an issue that has been on Beta, why didn't they just start everyone in Gold or Copper on an equal footing and let things work themselves out? Now we are going to be hearing complaint after complaint about how unfair it is that X guild got promoted even though we have defeated them every round so far, and they get more rewards, more prestige for their guild giving them a higher ranking, etc, etc.
And that unfairness (whether real or perceived) makes people frustrated and not want to play. Why put up artificial impediments that can otherwise be avoided? Do the devs really want players to become discouraged and not play, making this no better than GvG?
It's been 50 days on Beta, and the guild leagues aren't even close to sorting themselves out. How many months of this are we going to have to put up with and listen to?
Also, I hope that the devs make the live version not show that a guild has won rewards if the guild didn't qualify to receive rewards. That is going to flood the forums for a long time as well if they didn't, as players complain that it isn't fair that a guild got almost as much reward as they did for doing nothing (while not realizing that the guild that did nothing got nothing).
As an aside, it would be nice to see the number of advances needed for a guild to qualify for rewards be added to that section of the FAQ (40 I believe it is now).
If not, I guess Agent will have himself a lot of fun...