The Ladder Report 2007 - 2009 › 2008 Report

n1 gj kb but this report is fake and gay so get laid

2o2 saved ET or what:D?

Months are in another language for last report
So according to the last graph, activity should pick up like it did in the past!

i dont really understand what this report is aiming to do, but good job anyway

so basically we are absolutely amazing for playing the same ammount of matches 2 years in a row?

i have no idea what you were aiming at while doing this

there is no honour in being #1 at cb ladder, noone cares. why didnt you figure out a way to change this rather than making some graphs D:

oh and on a sidenote, people dont just randomly play praccs. u find a pracc often because u want to try a new defence, a new player, something radical maybe. why would u want these test results logged on some ladder?

A bit chaotic report. The graphs and statistics could be made in more 'legible' way.

some people simply dont care about the ladder
others are 2 afraid to play ladder games cause they might loose
dont think anything will change the attitude of the players is just too fucked up

I plotted some figures on a graph earlier today and got some interesting results, too:

will be a decrease after the LAN again so #care

It only shows the activity of the ladders and imo it's quite predictable: the first few years very popular and then the interest decreases + the period before quakecon or CC it improves slightly + in summer less activity.
Don't think you needed to put so much effort in this to prove the obvious. What will you do with this report? :) Anyway at least well done for putting so much effort in it :)

more coverage more activity

When I played in Memento Mori, we tried to play every pracc as a ladder match. It didn't really make a difference for us if people saw our 'results' or not, and challenging/accepting a game on CB takes like 5 minutes.

If you don't care about placing good on the ladders, then why not do this? If more activity on the ladders make CB put more effort and maybe even cash into ET, then why not? It's an incredibly small effort for a potentially large reward.

useless

good idea, will start playing esl ladders instantly

ncie job :-)

nice job :)

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You, the community decides the future of ET!

you are pretty much screwed

Nice, its really interesting to know.

I must agree with you here, more teams should play more matches in ladders or join them. ESL or CB or both. 2on2 3on3 5on5 or 6on6, doesnt matter.

We have other "ocassional" cups and tournaments, but ladders are always active and it's the perfect place to keep competition alive. I miss many teams on ladder nowadays, teams that are active and playing.
Like you say it doesnt take that much to play at least a match per week and all ET benefits from this having more variety of teams and players to challenge.
However in 2 years, that last paragraph is the only "promotion" I have seen for ladders.

Anyway I hope that forcing 5on5 and automatches gave you a lesson of what NOT to do and that more teams join CB ladder specially which for good or bad remains the most active ladder.

the real problem with ladders is the attitude of players. most players that mix together regularly are still somewhy SCARED of playing officials. I really don't see the reason for any of this, whereas I haven't played an IRC war for what, 2-3 years now? ( apart from some totally random 6on6 mixes)

scrims lack the whee bit of tension that ladder games have, yet it has become way too repetitive playing against the same opponents in the 2on2/3on3 ladder already. it beats me as to why people that are registered on CB would play a prac instead of an official. it takes just about 2 minutes tops to create the challenge and another 30 seconds to accept one. scrims seem to end the very same way each and every time - whether your opponent jumps up screaming "HAHAHAHAH N1 WH" resulting in a kick in just about 2 minutes or you are playing against totally unknown poles spreading 80 headies per round. you pick.

the answer? an opencup for both formats !

squad.ee owning 3on3 and 2on2

I thought my column got removed. Anyway I still think it's a good way to keep ET active.

keep the ladders clean from cheaters (will cost CB A LOT of effort) then we can talk again :)

march 09 =D When i still played +30 offis per few weeks<3 GOoD TIMES

in the graphs you should have placed over the top when tournies were running.

like cb 6v6 open cup from X to X.

this would give a better representation of how tournaments/cups/etc affected games.

additionally at least have Crossfire Lan @ X as i would feel that this would have the greatest impact to games played. or something along those lines.

without looking at other contingent factors those graphs are fairly useless.

gna roll ur ladders
be afraid

should have gotten urself some IT-guy which could have done it in 2 hours

get life