Gaming Steve is reporting that Blizzard is working on linking the Battlegrounds servers together in order to allow cross realm competitions!

Right now they are planning on linking 16 realms together per Battleground server for massive PvP action. You could imagine how this can really help out the Battlegrounds situation, not only will the queues go much faster but you’ll finally get a chance to fight across Realms.
This enhancement is reported to be released very shortly; most likely by patch 1.12 or 1.13 at the latest. In addition, an entire Battlegrounds revamp is reported to be due along with the Burning Crusade expansion, This will allow Battlegrounds to offer Battle.Net features such as tournaments, rankings and ladders. Since the Burning Crusade expansion is not due out until later this year, linking the battlegrounds servers will be a very interesting feature to play with leading up to the release.









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