Hi guys!
@Marindor, now that the new tournament system has been confirmed for all Live worlds, is there any chance of asking the devs for an update? People assume this means that the testing is now all finished and there will be no more changes. I expect that is the case, but it would be nice for them to confirm this after all these weeks and months of testing and thousands of messages. I have said similar over on EN, but after a combined total of over 3,200 messages in the feedback threads that they asked for, the least they could do would be to offer a little gratitude for that and offer some kind of summary and reasoning why none of the feedback has been acted on. At this point there would certainly be no point keeping the feedback threads active if they are now finished.
As you know, last week some alterations have been made to the battle difficulty of certain provinces. Since the original Beta release, several changes have been made (including bringing back flavor by making chances for certain units higher according to the type of tournament, splitting the training queues of units, changes to the battle difficulty at several times, reduction of premium expansion impact in the difficulty calculation etc).
Other than that, the Tournaments are now performing as expected, so the game team feels confident to release them on Live in their current state. That doesn't mean it's impossible that changes can still be made, since markets can be different as well, but it seems that everything is now working as intended and analytics are currently showing the expected results.
@Marindor Why isn't the new tournament announced in all Live Worlds? On RO it hasn't been announced.
I can't speak for the Community Managers of all Live servers, so I think you'd best ask there. I expect it will be because Community Managers get a certain period of time to translate the announcement to their language and post it. Maybe the RO Community Manager was busy with other things yesterday and planned it for today, while a Community Manager of another server did it yesterday already. English speaking communities are often quicker because they don't need to translate the announcement first, but as I said: if you want to know this for your server in particular, you could send your Live CM a private message to ask about it.