The European World of Warcraft Arena Tournament realm is supposed to be live right now. Unfortunately, Blizzard poster Slorkuz has announced that there has been a delay in opening the tournament realms.

According to Community Manager Thundgot (who took over monitoring the thread) the delay was caused by a bug which prevented Swedish players from joining. The Arena Tournament realm is now expected to go live by this afternoon.

This is a bit disappointing since a lot of gamers have been anxiously waiting to start the competition. Still, a delay of a few hours is still better than having the entire event pushed back a whole day.