I don't want to see the arena merged, at all. There is, in my opinion, nothing inherently wrong with the current layout - at all.

Arena sections are a staple on most, if not all, roleplaying sites. If you think this one is dead, please never go to Gateway. While it may not be the most active forum on Guild, and it has never been, it has its place. While most fights are 1x1, our rules are different from a normal RP, either group or 1x1. 

For Guild's current layout, it was perfectly suited and fine where it is. Such changes won't effect activity, a stated somewhere back before, and luckily has admittedly little chance of happening. Mahz actually gives us pretty free reign in there, and let's us try out our ideas - hence the leaderboard he implemented on our suggestion.

My take on it, is leave it alone. We dint bother people, don't need to share a space, and in general, handle things in a way that works for us.