New motto: "Two for Tuesdays!" I give it a solid +1
A week or so ago about 40 of us ended up in the WW1 arena during a map change. The fight lasted 15 minutes or so. What was interesting is the sideswitching rapidly resulted in almost everyone one two sides, with great fights. Cleary AH is seeing a dip in the number of sticks. Going to two sides, and of course the oft discussed 12-hour rule could result in better fights.
As for AH having tried everything....I remember when they would have one Late War arena then sharply at 5PM they would close that and open two, smaller latewar arenas. When that happend 100-150 would promptly log off. It basically dumped the fight. AH changed that, kept the one arena open full-time, which is where we are at now.
Let's give two sides a try on night a week for a few hours and see what happens. Likely it would require some randomization on which chess piece you get the first time, and they may need to change the side switch rule to allow a more dynamic, organic adjustment to imbalance....
Let's see what happens!