If you kept looking at the american World of Warcraft site and forum for official news about the upcoming patch with the implementation of the Battlegrounds, you looked in the wrong place. The news appeared today only on the european site:

International Public Test Realms
We’re happy to announce that we are now just a few days away from being able to deploy the first round of public test realms for our international audience. Due to the need to conduct as much testing of our initial Battlegrounds content as we can, the schedule calls for the next major content patch to go live on the US public test realms shortly. We will then roll out the public test realms for Korea and Europe as soon as the hardware setup and configurations are completed.

To conduct a targeted test of specific character classes for the Battlegrounds, we will be providing testers in Europe and Korea with access to a variety of high-level, fully equipped characters to choose from. More information on how players can access the test characters and the public test realms will become available as we get closer to launch. Assuming everything goes smoothly for this round of testing, we plan to deploy public-test-realm content for future patches simultaneously in Europe, Korea, and the US. We’re excited to see players from around the world on the test realms in the days ahead, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new PvP Battlegrounds content!

I don’t know if my reading comprehension is getting worse but I really do not get what is written there.

What are these International Test Servers? If they are going to launch shortly along with the new content patch, why the announce names specifically the US public test realms?

Or maybe it’s just a fancy way to say that they’ll try to open the test servers all at once without delays from a zone to another, without an actual international public test server.

Anyway. This week or the next we should be able to know some more.