Repost from the Alpha forums

For those that haven't noticed, Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest have now moved to their own separate queue and out of the Random Battleground bonus queue.

I was hoping to encourage some discussion on what the design intention is here?

Here was the talk many years ago when War Campaigns were first talked about which saw a similar type of structure:

Our current thinking is to move the big BGs (AV, IoC) into their own list. Perhaps re-tune WG and TB as well. Make this list about long epic fights that go on for an hour or more. https://twitter.com/holinka/status/321508685744590849

Is this still the design intention? If so, that sounds GREAT and I think that would be a lot of fun. I'd welcome the opportunity to regularly play Wintergrasp and Tol Barad again. Even if those two don't join, I'd love a more warfare-type Alterac or Isle where PvP is more at the focus rather than the PvE zergs they are currently.

If the idea is not about revamping them, I'm concerned this is just removing them from the normal battleground rotation, freeing up two blacklist slots (meaning higher queue times for everyone as more blacklisting combinations open up) and effectively "killing" them off as I imagine they would have longer queue times than the normal battleground queue.

What's the plan for large battlegrounds?