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You play another Unranked team and if you suceeed you get the last spot on the ladder.

thats why i said “once ranked”, although you could argue that gaining “+1” rank from unranked IS the last spot and would be covered by the scheme ;)

Quoted from Spike Himself

Let’s suppose there are 4 unranked teams: A, B, C and D.

Team A plays Team B – A wins and gets last spot on ladder.
Then Team C beats Team D: Shared last spot??

Team E joins. They play against Team A (who are shared last with Team C) and win — now what?

There are no shared spots, last spot would always be a new rank.

Lets say there are 99 Ranked teams and then your example starts. Team A would be Rank 100 after beating Team B. Team C beating Team D would then be Rank 101. Team E rank 102 and so on.

So if we did a fresh ladder, the first team to play a match and win would be rank 1.

Probably “Gets the Last Spot” wasn’t the best expression for how it would work. Could have said that better.

hmm, no. I can’t quite follow how you read that out of my posts.

If your example is: New ladder, no ranked teams.

Team A – E join the ladder and are unranked.

Team A beats Team B -> a new rank for for Team A is created, which is Rank 1.
Team C beats Team D -> a new rank for Team C is created, which is Rank 2.
Team E beats Team A -> a new rank for Team E is created, which is Rank 3.

You never go up the ladder from being unranked. An unranked team always get a new Rank (which will be the new last spot) as it is increasing the number of Ranked Teams.

Ladder after you’re example would look like this:

Ranked Teams (3)
1. Team A
2. Team C
3. Team E

Unranked Teams (2)
Team B
Team D

Well thats just how it worked there and it’s just a single game, it encourages the teams to play other unranked teams, thus filling the ladder with ranked teams more quickly.

Anyways, you could also just rank every team in order of signup, that way you would gain ranks from your first victory, as long that team signed up earlier than you.

What i really liked about this system is, that you don’t lose points/ranks from losing, so teams would be less worried to play even if they don’t have their best lineup / don’t feel good or w/e. At the same time you can drop rapidly in ranks if you’re inactive and the teams above you lose a lot.

To be fair, back then the ladder was the only competition, there was not a league alongside it, so you didn’t have to worry about teams singing up, everyone was on it and pcw’s were hardly ever played, pretty much every match was a ladder match.

Quoted from CrashSite

I like it tbh. A nice idea is that you have to beat those above you to advance, can’t play those below and get points that way.

Which means that higher ranked teams will simply refuse to play against lower ranked teams – there’s nothing in it for them if they win.

We have already established that nobody wants to join the ladder.

just want to bump this. since the ladder is a bit stale at the moment, anyone who wants to challenge us feel free! send us an open challenge type thing and we’ll arrange it for a suitable date :)