Ranked warring : Exhibition wars

Hi everyone,

We're currently trying to figure out how we're going to fully beta test the Ranked Warring engine since we're pretty much ready to go. It's important that we have a clean full release (maybe in time for Christmas?), so I was thinking we could try to setup some exhibition wars as soon as possible.

If we can find several fairly balanced pairs of factions who agree to participate against each other, with the knowledge that this is a beta test and it could end up being complete shambles... That could be the best option for us to find any early issues before a launch.

There would be rewards for both the winner and loser, but they'd be fairly minimal, and during the testing phase I feel it'd be unfair to reward any progress to a faction's rank. But it could be fun, some good practice, and it'll be a chance to provide us with important feedback that may help to shape the final version. This doesn't need to be limited to the HOF factions, in fact it would be wonderful to have interest from a whole range of factions.

So... Are any factions interested? Do you have an adversary in mind who might accept your challenge?

Thanks.