A player new to Guild Wars may join a guild at any time, but will not be eligible to participate in the playoffs unless he or she was an account holder as of 08:00 (a.m.) GMT on December 5, 2005 and has met all other eligibility requirements.
Also not to discourage anyone but the top teams in Guild Wars are really really good, anyone who wasn’t already playing fanatically would be very hard pressed to qualify for the tournament… of course there’s always next season…
Isn’t that pretty much the case for every game though?[/quote]
Yes, although the heavily team oriented nature of Guild Wars PvP combat plus the RPG aspects (unlocking skills, items, etc…) makes it a little harder to play catch up than in a lot of other games.