Animate Guardian Permadeath in TOTA

My animated guardian just died in the final round of a TOTA tournament. I won the tournament but lost about 50c of gear.

Animate Guardians get loaded up with several divines worth of gear in lategame, and at this point aren't expected to die. Sure, in any normal case if one dies you should expect to lose the gear.

Now, the TOTA league mechanic is deliberately overtuned because it 1) has no outside penalty for death, even for hardcore players, 2) expects you to occasionally die and revive at the highest levels, and 3) offers other support minions to engage with the mechanic when you are dead

Since this is the case, why is my Animated Guardian permanently dead and all of its items gone after getting shredded by the overtuned Kaom unique mob? Why do hardcore characters get to keep their gear but my minion loses it?

I'm just hoping this is something you guys missed, not a feature.

Please either make it so the AG does not go into the arena, or is revived along with the player / when leaving the area.

This JUST happened to me, really a PITA...

Happened to me as well. Really annoying to have to buy all his gear again. Won the fight but he just randomly fell over, not even sure what killed him.

Yea its happen to me yesterday 2 times -200c in two tournaments its rly anoying and i dont know what killed him at all