Let me break it down for you here in a simple sentence and then we’ll get to the mud slinging after the cut.

Today’s the big day when all of us peons get a chance to go head to head with the developers and community mods in the Arena. The TTR servers are pretty chaotic though. The lag is horrible and even with the changes to gear vendor NPCs there’s still crowding and countless jerks trying their best [...]

Sometime today we’ll be pushing new data to the PTR Tournament realm and once the update is made, players will now randomly spawn into one of the following locations upon character creation: more after the break

If you have ever wanted to kill any of the devlopers or community managers (in game) here is your chance as once again they will be entering the battlefield.
Are you ready to take on the world in the arenas? The World of Warcraft team will be testing the WoW Arena Tournament on the Tournament [...]

We are currently in the process of creating a lot more starting locations to ease congestion for the vendors. As a part of these new starting locations, we are also currently testing random spawning for newly created characters, which should evenly spread the population throughout all vendor locations. If you create a new character [...]

On the TTRs for the Arena Tournament there are serious lag issues due to the sheer number of players online crowded around the gear vendors making it virtually impossible to get any gear or to begin to skirmish with other teams. Hortus and the other Blizzard folks are working on a fix.
We can not [...]

Based on observation and player feedback we will be making some changes to the TTR starting areas to make the NPCs more accessible to everyone.
These changes may not make it into the next 2.4 PTR build update but they should definitely be in the following one.
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It looks like changing members of your team during the 2nd stage of the Arena Tournament will get you a 150 Team Rating penalty.
Right now on the TTR when you change members of a team the team rating is penalized 150 points.
When the real Tournament Realm season starts this will only occur during the [...]

Blizzard is going to kill two birds with one stone with this latest build on the PTRs. In addition to the ongoing changes for Patch 2.4, Blizzard has released a new server on the test realms for testing the arena tournament.
The PTRs are now live with build 7994.
We have also turned on a test [...]

We’re glad to unveil the Arena Tournament item list page detailing the items that will be available to players participating in the 2008 Arena Tournament. Please keep in mind that the item list is not finalized and will most likely be changed based on feedback and testing. We wanted to give those interested a sneak [...]

Here’s the basic FAQ concerning the upcoming 2008 Worldwide Arena Tournament where the grand prize winners can walk away with a hefty $200,000!

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® ANNOUNCES NEW GLOBAL WORLD OF WARCRAFT® ARENA TOURNAMENT FORMAT

2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournaments to feature competition on dedicated regional tournament realms and more than $200,000 in cash prizes
IRVINE, Calif. - February 14, 2008 - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced [...]