Team Arena

I just finished my first season in Arena and I can honestly say it's pretty hard.  Arena is the all-Slayer competitive playlist for either 2v2 or 4v4.  It's Slayer DMRs all the time, no voting, and you are judged by your game Rating, which gives much more weight to kills and assists than to deaths.  Arena seasons run for a month, you have to get at least 10 daily ratings to get a season division rating, and you have to play at least 3 games a day to get a daily rating.  Like challenges, Arena days begin and end at 3am PT.

My Arena stats for the season are 372 kills, 344 deaths (1.08 K/D ratio), 85 assists, 22 wins, 11 losses (67% wins), 10.63 K/game, 9.83 D/game, 223 DMR kills, 140 DMR deaths (1.59 K/D ratio).  By all accounts, those are pretty good numbers.  That however, only earned me an Iron division rating, which is the lowest of the 5 divisions.  Arena divisions are Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Onyx.

It's good fun, really competitive, and all Slayer all the time.  But it's hard and takes a lot of time.