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Edited 9/3/2013 17:22:56

Possibly. Indeed, I made that point immediately in the first reply. But whatever the reason, the quality level on the ladder has risen immeasurably recently!

Edited 9/3/2013 16:48:38

A ladder milestone: I believe this is the first time the first three pages have been completely filled? 150 ranked players.

Edited 9/6/2013 12:03:11

Last time I tried the ladder (4 or 5 months ago) I made it to 24th place with a rating of 1775. I rejoined a couple of weeks ago and managed to get a higher rating (1789 right now) but only I'm ranked 39th. The ladder is more competitive than i've ever seen.

tell me about it.... im all the way in 18th now XD

[WM]doggy is in 78th! Just let me into WM now! :D jk doggy was a boss on the 2v2 ladder with trillussa

the ladder is an obese middle-aged man. the middle is heavier bit the top is the same. ask dead foxy. he can rejoin and after 15 games he'd be back to familiar territory: #1.

motocros sno one f***ing cares about you, this is about the ladder, not some subaverage player that left the ladder
EDIT: to clarify, everyone elses storys are about their expereince of how it is harder, you seem to think it is waaaaay easier

Edited 9/4/2013 03:14:20

Gotta agree with Gui. The new players are mostly bottom and middle. There are only 20-25 guys I would consider very good on the ladder currently, and that's about how it usually is, ranging from 15-25 depending on the time of year.

To be honest the ladder has gotten easier for me, too, as the surge of players joining the ladder is preventing me from getting 1800/1900 rated people now.

That being said my ranking (as well as everyone else's around me basically) has gone down 10+. :/ Surely, there's a lot of competition now, but if you're outside the competitive range nothing has changed except your rank just shot up 10+.

There should be a lot more quality games with higher-skilled players being matched up against each other more often, though, so there's plenty of content to look over if you're bored :3

a rating of 2k cant get you into top 10, the ladder is getting competitive. :)

Top 20 are still all old-timers.
Atm, there is hardly any chance for new players to enter top 10 and stay there for a while, the experience gap is too big. Given time, this will change though.
There's a few players that can easily take back #1 if they'd care enough.
However, it's great to see a rise in popularity and this will be a lot of fun for any active player.

The 2v2 ladder is odd. Pulsey/Gruffalo win 8 in a row and they don't get a matchup with any team in the 1800s? That seems odd to me. I guess maybe because there are so few active teams with an 1800 rating? How does the formula decide matchups?

damn it, i really want to play pig and qi

I think it should improve now that there are more players getting rankings..

What I see most of you fail to realize on this is that rating at a ceartain time does not equal skill, ranking shows much more. With more people, the ratings get exagerrated and that is why there are so many people with higher ratings than they should have.

Congrats to abr who has achieved 1st in the 1v1 ladder!

Now, where will Ko turn up?

Edited 9/6/2013 08:00:56

How does ranking show more JSA? They are 4th on the ladder and the best team they beat was rated 1776 (I think that was the number at the time), and lost to a team ranked 13th.

I'm not saying they are not good, but they have not been tested hardly at all.

Chris, what are you talking about? I speak of the 1v1 ladder, I could care less about the 2v2, the 2v2 for the most part is teams coming in and leaving right away. The top 10 seem to usually be the same people but with different teammates. Very few teams stick together longer than five months that I have seen.

Ranking > Rating at a high level
Everyone's rating is getting inflated right now with so many new players joining, most are 50-150 players and can't compete at the top. I see 2 that have joined in the last month or so that are around top 20 now. 7th place now is about the same as 7th 6 months ago. In fact, 6 months ago was even stronger I think, but back then, there were only about 3 guys rated above 2000, in fact, one player in the top 10 was below 1900. The competition was stronger then than it was now. So to me, rating is not very important.

and... me and gruff left the ladder :)

have fun everyone.