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All battlegroups were merged together around the time that Cataclysm was released. Arena is the only ladder that wasn't merged. This means that "BG9" means absolutely nothing because you're playing with everyone from your region (e.g. North America).

BG 9 means a lot actually at least for 3's (competition wise and queues 2300+ throughout the season). But BG won't change the difficulty overall at least for the 5's bracket since it is basically the same thing... zerg and pray for a lot of comps or some gimmick. BG9 would actually be easier to achieve 2200 due to far more activity in both 3's and 5's and you can legit GRIND it out.

Also Mirai cross realm is done by datacenter from my experiences. When playing on SBurn I never once faced a team from bg9 or cyclone only mid west datacenter servers like manno, mag etc or EC servers like KT (i played against chris, zilea, nuvos etc in 5's on their stream)

Also you have to wait 5+ mins to queue against someone cross BG (or they have to have been waiting that long). So queue times are much shorter on BG9 in comparison to other places.


I personally just moved to Tich to play on BG9 for the queues. On Sburn 3's and 5's queues sucked... 20 min 5's queues 2300+ just to play 1900 teams, and 10-15 min 5's queues to not play anyone 2200+.