The Need for Cross-Server Battlegrounds

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Let's take a look at what this would do.  Let's say that server A has a horde guild that has organized an AV event.  They pull the bodies together to create an AV instance.  Now, normally, that server's alliance side would now be able to play.  Instead you will be talking about pulling one or two players from dozens of servers.  You will end up with maybe one or two players per server who get to play and you will have to wait in a line of tens of thousands.  There is also zero chance that you will be able to join an AV instance as a group in such a scenario.
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Bull. What happens when there's a line of "tens of thousands" - a new AV will start up. There's over 100 servers in the US right now. Some of those can have 3 or 4 AVs up at a time, some seen an AV once a week. Take all the ones that see AV once a week - instead of 20 to 30 people in a queue nightly on one side that never get to play, those 20 to 30 will be joining up with people from another server to play. There are people who wait in a queue their entire game session to see if AV will start up - but it never does. Take that over 100 servers, and you can at least get some AV going. Get some AV going, people will realize "hey, it's actually playable, I'll put myself into the queue" and thus, even more AV.

You're wrong on the group aspect too - it'll be easier. The last time AV went up on our server, the Horde tried to organize it as a 40 player raid and then join the queue. Slight problem, there was a few Horde already in the queue with higher priority. The AV didn't start until the Horde split up their raid and joined individually, leaving the last members to join stuck in the queue while the rest got to play. Since individuals in the queue will actually have some place to go, instead of just blocking the queue, groups are more viable.