Blizzard has announced some changes to the arena rating system starting season at season 6.

• Arena teams will start at 0 rating instead of the current 1500.
• A player joining a team with a rating of 1000 or more will start at a personal rating of 1000.
• Items purchased with arena points will stat at 1250 rating requirement.

• Blizzard announced the current development of a new Battleground due to be released in Wrath of the Lich King.
• On the same note, they announced a future change to the PVP reward system, to allow for more skill based rewards from Battleground as opposed to the current "Mindless Grind" system.

Arenas became the focal point of PvP because there exists in the rating system an easier way to measure skill. On the contrary, battlegrounds shifted from the focus and the means by which the most competitive PvP rewards could be obtained because there's almost no measurement of skill. Someone could AFK their way to great gear just as easily as someone legitimately playing to win every match.

We don't like this though, as arenas really are meant to be an E-sport side game, not the end all, be all of World of Warcraft PvP. We understand it's a niche game that's not for everyone. What we want to do is revamp the battleground system and create some better functionality to measure skill so that players have access to more comparable rewards to those issued via the arenas. We'd also like to provide the means for player to level up via PvP should that be their preference.

We have a new battleground on the way for Wrath of the Lich King as well. It's looking pretty cool so far. .

We have updated all the Ulduar Strategy guides to include PTR movies we found on Youtube so that the written strategies will be clearer on each boss strategy page.

However, as soon as the bosses hit live and get finalized tune from Blizzard, we will produce narrated movies for each bosses strategy to replace the PTR movies.

Stay tuned for the movies during April.

The top 10 teams of the 2009 Arena Tournament’s had been released:

Top Classes count on both US and EU team sum to:

Paladin: 14
DK: 13
Hunter: 10
Warlock: 9
Mage: 5

US:

Name and position	Coposition	Win/ Lose	Rating
1. BARKSDALE CREW	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	156 – 54	2501
2. monkey attack squad	Hunter, Mage, Shaman	103 – 48	2450
3. well then	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	54 – 8	2436
4. we r gud	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	95 – 25	2414
5. we met on eHarmony	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	81 – 34	2413
6. Nekos’ Team	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	86 – 39	2410
7. NO LIGHTNING GEN BRAH	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	135 – 48	2404
7. me you and pikachu	Death Knight, Paladin, Warlock	138 – 40	2404
9. Team Name of the Whale	Hunter, Shaman, Warlock	136 – 64	2396
10. met on xFire	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	103 – 56	2378

Full details on: http://www.wowarmory.com/arena-ladder.xml?b=Coliseum%201&ts=3&p=1&sf=rank&sd=a

Eu:

Name and position	Coposition	Win/ Lose	Rating
1. we r randoms	Mage, Priest, Rogue	144 - 53	2332
2. I HAZ A BIG BOW	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	94 - 39	2316
3. BOMBERS	Hunter, Mage, Paladin	100 - 40	2307
4. BloódxWorstRogueEUU	Mage, Priest, Rogue	120 - 44	2301
5. Improved Clickz	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	120 - 61	2270
6. Almost Famous	Hunter, Shaman, Warlock	141 - 65	2241
7. àAà	Mage, Priest, Rogue	79 - 35	2225
8. eStars	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	81 - 44	2213
9. Squishy squish	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	54 - 30	2207
10. Improved clicks	Death Knight, Hunter, Paladin	89 - 57	2205

Full Details on: http://eu.wowarmory.com/arena-ladder.xml?b=Coliseum1&ts=3