Battleground stories

[Quark]

I've done a couple of Warsong Gulch matches, seeing as I'm level 50 and can't go into Alterac Valley yet.  It's lots of fun.  Although, I've heard people say that matches only last ten minutes or so (although I can't remember where, exactly), which is kinda nuts, seeing as each match lasted over 45 minutes.  Although, I suppose, if the entire enemy party were morons, and all scattered solo through the area, then maybe you could get three captures in ten minutes.  But who's dumb enough to do that?
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<_< You might wanna try the level 60 fights before you say that. When we get stuck fighting Blood of the Horde they have a few advantages on us. They all have epic mounts - that's a huge advantage with their strategy of "get the flag, hold it, then kill their flagbearer". They all have gear from MC/Onyxia. They got bored with the endgame, so they've all rolled alts on a PvP server. They're all on Teamspeak, and while we had 8 on TS there were a few times where the other 2 got thrashed because they couldn't hear what we were saying and we couldn't type fast enough.

The first time we played them (our first experience) we went 5 off 5 def, and they went all off. They wiped the floor with us in no time. The second time we tried to get organized and together, but couldn't quite get it done and though we actually fought them, we didn't win any battles. We ended up fighting them a third time last night. We still couldn't get a flag point out of them, but we lasted much longly simply because we stayed together. Now we've got somewhat of a strategy down, but we're still lacking on tactics (most of us haven't PvPed much) and equipment - either PvE gear or just plain inferior to their purples. So while we can get some nice kills in, it'll still be a monumental effort to actually beat them.

It makes me wonder if Blizzard could ever implement some sort of ladder like SC and WC3, so more even abilitied teams could fight it out. The only way I see that being possible, though, is if there could be inter-server matches to make the sample size that much bigger.