The only way I can see them making it less of a rush and tuned a bit more 50/50 would be to force objectives before you can move on.
As in have to kill commander before capping tower/bunker, Need to kill ballinda before this or that, spawn this or that before you can do something else… All the while the other side can decide to intervene or put more effort in taking their own objective down faster…
Would last a few hours though.
If it’s very rigid we’d lose our freedom and don’t know if that would be much better. So all in all it comes down to tuning and testing.
Over two days, I’ve gained around 13 or 14 levels in about 4 hours of gameplay as Horde. The event has turned into an XP piñata and most players just want the matches done asap so they can boost their alts to 120 before the Anniversary ends. As Alliance, even if you lose every BG I bet it’s still quicker and more fun to level this way than doing PvE you’ve done several times before.
And the TW badges give you 380 rings and weapons for your freshly dinged alt, and other gear items too if you don’t have pearls to buy and send Benthic tokens cross-faction.
My recommendation to Bliz would be to bring the event back in 8.3 but without the mount, TW vendor items and without the big XP rewards. Then you’d only get players who want to win.
