In Service of the Horde

Rated Bg's are a new experience in cataclysm pvp season. Players are asked to team up every week in random 10 or 15 player teams and queue for the correspondant BG of those sizes.

Once you are in, wining grants you a fair amount of conquest points and some boost in personal rating.
Personal rating is used to get pvp titles and achievements. and Conquest points, which have a weekly cap, are granted to purchase the top pvp gear of this season.

While random bg's are kinda , that, random, expect to find much more suitable players in it, so puggin a team in trade may not be a good idea. Instead players should make pvp guilds or experienced teams to overcome the challenge.

Truth is, blizzard expected to do a much bigger issue of the rated bgs than its currently now for players. so participation is kinda reduced and not very appealing to lots of players who find tedious to build a 10 or 15 man team and queue in raid in which you can't complete daily quests while you wait for it.

The maximum rank of this chain achievement is earning 500 victories which you will need a lot of dedication to achieve, given the low popularity of the rated bgs in some servers.

So are you up for the challenge :)?

Seems like the Battlegrounds enter the World of Arenas! Rating and Rated/Skirmish matches seem sweet!