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Some updates are out now for PvP in the fifth season of the Guild Wars 2 PvP Leagues. If PvP isn't your thing, have no fear because Wintersday Festival is also here! PvP or holiday cheer, pick your poison.
PvP Leagues in Guild Wars 2 have received some major changes with the release of Season 5, which is now live. The main focus for season 5 is to provide players with a more competitive environment: accurately indicating skill level which will allow for more evenly matched competition against other players and giving more consistent rewards across the skill spectrum.

Some of the key highlights of Season 5 changes and additions include:
● PvP Leagues Rework: Leagues have been reworked in order to facilitate better matchmaking, to give a more accurate indication of an individual's skill level, and to be more rewarding.
● Better Matches: Matchmaking will no longer factor in pips when creating matches, and will instead focus more heavily on your matchmaking rating. This will increase the pool of eligible players that you can play against, thereby improving match quality and reducing queue times.
● Measuring Skill: Skill rating is a new visible value that represents a player's skill level for a ranked season. Pips will no longer factor into skill rating or prestige.
● Rewards: League pips will now be used exclusively as a mechanism for earning rewards. You will earn varying amounts of reward pips for wins and losses.
● Personal Score & Top Stats: Personal score has been removed from structured PvP games and stats have been condensed to a more meaningful "Top Stat" system:
● Overtime: Overtime has been added to conquest. When both teams have the same score at the time limit or both teams reach 500 points simultaneously, the game will enter overtime. Overtime ends when one team score becomes higher than the other or after 5 minutes have elapsed. In the case of a timeout, the winning team is chosen randomly.


You can see more about these PvP changes at the Guild Wars 2 site. Alternatively, you can check out the sweet new Wintersday page or even read up on the full changelog for today's big ol' update!
Bells are ringing, snowballs are flying, and Toymaster Tixx’s fantastic golem-shaped airship is hovering over Divinity’s Reach—the traditional Tyrian seasonal celebration of Wintersday is here again! Celebrate the holiday with us through January 10.

The Wondrous Workshop
Rebellious toys and sneaky skritt are threatening the workflow inside Tixx’s Infinirarium. Enter the workshop and put an end to the chaos!

Wintersday Activities
Celebrate the holiday with festive traditions: leap from snowflake to snowflake in the Winter Wonderland jumping puzzle, ring in the season in Bell Choir, defend gift-bearing dolyaks in Toypocalypse, and store up precious presents in Snowball Mayhem.

Toys and Treasures
You can earn a sleigh load of rewards by participating in the festivities, spreading Wintersday cheer, opening gifts, and giving presents to orphans around Divinity’s Reach.

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