Queue as Party and Follow

[Ultimaz-stormscale]

Queue as Party for Alterac Valley
Is there any source for why you can not queue as a party of 5 or less in Alterac Valley?
I was really looking forward to play with my friends today.

Is this a bug, or will it stay this way?

Follow another character in Battlegrounds
I read in some random forums that this have been disabled back in patch 5.2 (retail) due to bots.

Is this a legit way of dealing with cheaters?

I understand that this is not the most critical function to have in battlegrounds, but I find the solution to be handled very poorly.

[Regularlegs-magtheridon (Regularlegs)]

Extremely disappointing you cant join as a group for AV. Me and my brother who is visiting was gonna play together all day today and now we can only sign up for random bgs and hope to join the same one as even joining the same specific one doesnt seem to work.