Thanks for contacting us today, I hope everything is going well! This is Game Master Meichivel here and I understand you've experienced an issue with another Arena Team supposedly 'win trading' to get a high rating for the Season's End.

We do appreciate your diligence in reporting these cases to us however all of this will be looked into at the end of the season so as to disqualify anyone found to have been cheating to get their rating. So thank you for the report on this but we already have things set up to catch them. : )

Thank you for contacting us. We hope you continue to enjoy your experience in World of Warcraft!

I was writing this as I saw your newest response pop up!

It’s Friday, and thankfully I do have a final response for you, although it may not be the one you were hoping for.

So, as I hinted at before, this really is not a practice to be encouraged. In the simplest terms, the fact that this ‘tactic’ effectively games the system, in order encourage queuing against specific brackets of individuals (in this case, lower rated teams) for the purposes of boosting team and personal ratings, means that it would be construed as cheating.

To this end, players making use of this type of strategy really shouldn’t expect to necessarily ‘get away’ with such actions, and if you yourself have any knowledge of teams specifically embarked on this kind of scheme then you’re welcome to get in touch with us and provide us with the details accordingly.

I do hope that answers your question adequately, and my apologies once more for the delay.