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Last week both me and Ralph had to deal with unforeseen personal situations, and as such we didn't post an update. This week I'm back however, so let's get right back into things. This week has seen Octane overtake Rufus' first place spot, a spot Octane's managed to hang on to for 5 games, or about a week in total. Rufus had a rare 4-game losing streak which pushed his rating down, and Octane managed to capitalize. Rufus has since gone on one of his regular tears, winning 8 of the 9 last games, but it hasn't been enough to overcome the rating loss. The top of the ladder in general looks really strong, with 5 players above 2035 rating. The bottom of the top 10 has however suffered a bit of a hit, as the cutoff now sits in the mid 1800's again.

The cleanest week from any of the top 10 players comes from SerFen with a 3-0 week, which pushed them back into the 1900's after finishing last week outside that range. Looking slightly lower in the rankings we see the rating climbers of the past week have been a surging Edge, who despite losing 5 games gained an impressive 113 rating, an undefeated Ares who went 5-0 and broke into the top 15, and Syphen who managed to put up an even more impressive 6-0, climbing 12 ranks in the process.

Participation on the ladder is down compared to a couple of weeks ago, seeing current membership at 66 players. I suspect part of the explanation behind comes from the fact that we were in the end of July, and as such prime vacation time for many in the Northern hemisphere. The rating drop mostly happened last week, and bottomed out at 65, so hopefully that's a sign that the numbers are climbing back up again.

The clans department shows that OP has suffered the most in terms of activity, dropping to 8 players on the ladder. Harmony on the other hand have increased participation to 7, placing them as the second most active clan. Masters have dropped significantly too, meaning the third most active clans are ONE! and {101st} with 6 active members each. The top 10 sees a rare three way split in terms of dominance, with both Masters, OP and ONE! each having 3 members represented. Aforementioned SerFen marks yet another week of sole participation for MB, but also yet another week of MB being represented towards the top of the standings.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2119	3/1	1
2	Rufus			2100	8/3	-1
3	Buns157			2039	1/0	0
4	Xenophon		2038	2/1	1
5	Hergul			2035	2/1	-1
6	tornado			1950	1/0	0
7	SerFen			1935	3/0	1
8	master of desaster	1907	1/1	-1
9	nickpugs3		1865	4/4	1
10	malakkan		1857	2/0	3

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 21 games (9 wins, 12 losses)
Most Wins: SweetSasyMolasy, with 9 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Syphen, rose 12 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: AJordy_ and t7soldier, dropped 7 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: Edge, gained 113 points
Biggest Rating Drop: CraZy, lost 55 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Syphen, 7 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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Welcome to another weekly update. This week has seen Rufus retake first place, unusually low activity in the top 10 and an exciting Olympics come to an end. Let's get into it.

Rufus has been on an absolute tear recently, only dropping one of his last 16 games. 10 of those games happened this week, with only Photonic Symmetry being able to take a game away from the perennial first placer. His rating is getting high enough that despite the 9-1 week, he only gained 32 rating, but that's more than enough to overtake Octane, who didn't manage to finish any games this week. Tornado and Xenophon join Octane in that pace, and with a couple of other slow players we see 5 of our top 8 players finishing only 1 game or less this week. Buns157 dropped a game to Bechaa which punished his rating and dropped him below both Xenophon and Hergul, while Hergul had a fine 6-3 week but has reached a rating where "fine" doesn't really cut it anymore, and as such dropped 11 rating.

Ladder participation has gone up and down throughout the week, seeing a peak of 68 players at one point, but ultimately settling on 66 players for another week. Ranked player count is up to 58, with the majority of those in the 1600-1800 rating range. Highest rated non-ranked player currently joined is Corn Man, who sits at 1856 rating which would put him just outside the top 10.

In the clans department, OP drops to 7 active members, tying for first with Harmony in terms of participation. CORP, Masters and {101st} all have 6 members actively participating in the ladder at the moment. In the top 10 we see a somewhat similar picture to last week, with 9 spots split between OP, Masters and ONE!, while MB accounts for the last one. Only difference is that one ONE! member was pushed out of the top 10, which opened up space for another Master, making the count 4 Masters, 3 OP and 2 ONE!.

The quick climbers of the week have been Rumo, Photonic Symmetry and Botanator. Rumo went 5-3 but picked up some nice wins in the process to gain a staggering 119 rating. Photonic Symmetry's win over Rufus was accompanied by three other wins and a loss to Hergul, causing a rating jump of 70. Botanator had a nice undefeated streak of 4 this week, but with mostly opponents below Botanator's rating the gains were slightly less impressive, boosting the rating by 61.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2132	9/1	1
2	Octane			2119	0/0	-1
3	Xenophon		2035	0/0	1
4	Hergul			2024	6/3	1
5	Buns157			2017	1/2	-2
6	tornado			1944	0/0	0
7	SerFen			1942	1/0	0
8	master of desaster	1912	1/0	0
9	CraZy			1874	5/2	1
10	nickpugs3		1870	7/3	1

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 19 games (7 wins 12 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 9 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Botanator, rose 8 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Syphen, dropped 6 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Rumo, gained 119 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Word Walker, lost 85 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Rufus, 6 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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Welcome to another weekly update, which I'm posting later at night since I almost forgot to write it in the first place. Oh well, at least I remembered in the end. This week has seen Octane retake first place as Rufus' usually dominant performance was interrupted by an atypical 4 losses in the span of 6 games. At those ratings losses hurt, and as such Rufus' rating plummeted towards the end of the week. Octane hasn't been slacking to pick up the pace this week either, going 5-0 and cementing a sudden 98 point rating gap between the two MTL titans.

Hergul continues maintaining a high pace of play, but a couple of last minute losses leave a modest 7-5 weekly result, while Buns157's 2-0 week saw last week's 4th place move up a spot on the ladder. Xenophon suffered two losses during the week, putting him in 4th. SerFen left the ladder this week, opening up the top 10 spot for malakkan to reclaim.

Ladder participation this week is up slightly compared to last week, though still a bit off the early Summer peak, clocking in at 69 players right now. We did briefly cross the 70 player threshhold, but with quite a lot of rotation in currently active players on the ladder, the count rarely stays stagnant for long. Similarly to last week, there's 10 active players not currently ranked.

This week's fastest climbers were psinoza, LND and aforementioned Octane. Psinoza's 3-0 week included a very nice win against SerFen, while LND's similarly nice week had a rocky loss to start off, but followed it up with beating CraZy for a 3-1 performance. Octane's 5 wins this week join 2 he had already to set him up for a 7 game winstreak at the moment.

Masters take over as the most active clan on the ladder, sporting 8 participating members. In joint second we see {101st} and Harmony, with 7 members each on the ladder. OP sees one of the lowest active player counts in a long time with 6 members, an amount shared with CORP. The top 10 sees the usual suspects of Masters, OP and ONE! remain dominant, aided by SerFen leaving to become the only represented clans at the top. Remarkably, the 4 Masters, 3 OP's and 3 ONE!'s have managed to intermingle in a way where no clan holds two top 10 spots in a row.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2164	5/0	1
2	Rufus			2066	10/6	-1
3	Buns157			2049	2/0	1
4	Xenophon		2021	1/2	-1
5	Hergul			2002	7/5	0
6	tornado			1976	2/0	0
7	master of desaster	1924	1/0	1
8	nickpugs3		1912	7/4	2
9	CraZy			1873	6/4	0
10	malakkan		1827	1/2	2

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 17 games (7 wins, 10 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 10 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: LND, rose 10 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Asurados, FisherKing70 and Torsten, dropped 3 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: psinoza, gained 61 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Rufus, lost 66 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Octane, 7 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

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Another week done, another weekly update. A week that's seen increased ladder participation, Rufus leaving Masters and Octane on top. Octane holds on to the lead he established last week, currently sitting 59 rating ahead of second place. Losses to both Rufus and Hergul do mean the lead got smaller, but the gap was large enough that the lead is still comfortable. Buns157 grabs second ahead of Rufus, albeit currently by a mere 1 rating. Buns157's week involved beating aforementioned Rufus and Hergul, which also explains why Rufus dropped to third. Rufus' 10-3 week was by no means bad, but the rating gains were not enough to match Buns'.

In fourth place, Hergul continues putting up Rufus-esque activity numbers, and this week with a Rufus-esque winrate too. 12-4 including wins against both Rufus and Octane ensures a rating increase, though even this type of performance was marred by losses to lower ranked players, leaving Hergul with a rating increase of 12. Xenophon leaving means tornado takes 5th place despite not finishing any games this week. Lower in the top 10 we see FiveStarGeneral rejoin the ladder, let's see if they'll be a top contender once more.

Ladder participation this week set a new peak player count since the reboot of 73 players, although we did once again see the number drop slightly at the end of the week. We do still see 72 active participants though, so a clear rise since last week. 61 players currently ranked is also one of the highest amounts we've seen since the reboot, while 11 unranked players indicate we have a lot of relative newcomers to the ladder. Corn Silver (formerly Corn Man) still rates the highest of the unranked players.

The fast climbers of the week were koning, SweetSasyMolasy and malakkan. Koning has been taking names, putting up an impressive 7-0 week, boosting their spot in the rankings by 11 places. SweetSasyMolasy's impressive activity continues, and this week results in a positive outcome for the Harmony member, who went 12-8 including a nice win against Baer. Malakkan had three matchups against 2000+ rated players and pulled out two wins, which aided by another win boosted their own rating close to 1900 once again.

In the clans leaderboard, {101st} finds themselves on top with 8 players. Three clans follow them closely at 7 players each in the form of Masters, Optimum and Harmony, while Corp has 6 active players. ONE! has retaken their spot as most represented clan in the top 10, as FiveStarGeneral ups the count to 4. Masters are left with 3 members in the top 10 after Rufus went clanless, and Optimum rounds out the numbers with two players.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2139	3/2	0
2	Buns157			2080	2/0	1
3	Rufus			2079	10/3	-1
4	Hergul			2014	12/4	1
5	tornado			1971	0/0	1
6	nickpugs3		1942	6/1	2
7	master of desaster	1902	0/2	0
8	malakkan		1882	3/1	2
9	CraZy			1867	1/1	0
10	FiveStarGeneral		1844	0/0	NEW

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 20 games (12 wins, 8 losses)
Most Wins: SweetSasyMolasy and Hergul, with 12 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: koning, rose 11 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: lawm and QuixoteG, dropped 9 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: koning, gained 102 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Mr.Carpenter, lost 53 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: koning, 7 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

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As we come to the end of another week, it's once again time to take a look at the status of the MTL. Octane remains on top with a strong 3-0 week, including a win against Rufus. Rufus had a strong week despite said loss, going 14-2 and beating both Buns157 and Hergul in the process. As a result the two main contenders find themselves 26 rating apart. Buns157 briefly left the ladder during the week, but came back towards the end. His performance was less than stellar however, as he went 1-2 and dropped well below Rufus in rating once more. Hergul left the ladder this week, resulting in everyone below them moving up in the standings.

Ladder participation this week is down compared to last, as we round the week out with 71 players on the ladder, briefly going as low as 70 at one point. The result of players like Hergul leaving is that 10th place is now achievable with 1819 rating. The unranked Corn Silver (aka Corn Man aka Quicksilver) is the highest rated unranked player, and would currently rank 9th if he was ranked.

This week's most prominent climbers were azier, Fisherking70 and malakkan. Azier's 6-2 week resulted in an impressive 102 rating gain overall, with the most prominent win being against andrtych. Fisherking70 similarly went 6-2, beating aforementioned azier. Fisherking70's opponents weren't as comparatively highly rated as azier's, and as such the rating gains were lower, though 75 rating in a week is still nothing to scoff at. Malakkan had a strong 3-0 week beating both Buns157 and CraZy, resulting in 74 rating gained for the trophy holder. Still a ways off the top of the standings, but an impressive result nonetheless.

In the clans department, {101st} and Harmony find themselves most prominently featured on the ladder, sporting 8 active participants each. Masters and CORP both sport 6 members each, while ONE! and OP have 5. It might be time to do another recruitment drive in OP, to get those numbers back up. In the top 10, ONE! are back to their dominant ways, having 4 members in the top 10. Masters and OP have 2 members each, while Edge of Python and Rufus who's currently not in a clan round out the list.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2171	3/0	0
2	Rufus			2145	14/2	1
3	Buns157			2051	1/2	-1
4	tornado			1973	3/3	1
5	malakkan		1929	3/0	3
6	master of desaster	1914	2/1	1
7	nickpugs3		1902	3/5	-1
8	Edge			1890	9/4	NEW
9	CraZy			1848	2/4	0
10	FiveStarGeneral		1819	0/2	0

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Rufus, with 16 games (14 wins, 2 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 14 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Baer, rose 11 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: t7soldier, dropped 8 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: azier, gained 103 points
Biggest Rating Drop: GUALANDI and Photonic Symmetry, lost 45 points each
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Rufus, 6 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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I somehow thought of doing this update yesterday, then completely forgot to actually make it. Oh well. Another week down, another update. This has been a week where Rufus and Octane have traded places at the top multiple times. As of right now, Rufus is on top, coming off a win against Octane within the last couple of hours. The two contenders sit a mere 2 rating apart however, so the lead is hardly significant. Rufus had a strong 12-2 week, which ended an otherwise impressive 14 game winstreak he built up over the past couple of weeks. Octane's 3-1 week wasn't enough to keep up, as it just kept his rating stagnant. Hergul rejoined the ladder after a brief pause, but has in the meantime been overtaken by both Buns157 and tornado. Tornado's 2-0 week pushes him close to reclaiming the 2k rating mark, while Buns157's 0-0 week cost him 10 points of activity bonus.

Ladder participation is up from last week, currently sitting at 72 members, though we did reach 73 during the week. Corn Silver aka Corn Man aka Quicksilver finally finished enough games to get ranked, and hangs on to top 10 just barely. There's 10 unranked players at the moment, with the new top unranked player being Vîgørøūs Drāgøñ 🐉, at an impressive 1722 rating. They're only 1 game from getting ranked as well.

The quick climbers of the week are koning, GUALANDI and Bechaa. Koning went 5-1 including a nice win against Edge for a total rating gain of 65. GUALANDI's 58 rating came off the back of a 4-0 week, with the strongest win being against Fisherking70. Bechaa back on winning ways grabbed a win off Rufus, and climbed 3 ranks with their 5-2 week and 56 rating gained.

In the clans department, Harmony reigns supreme, sporting 8 active members on the ladder. Masters and {101st} clock in at 7 members each for tied second, while CORP has 6 members on the ladder. With Rufus joining 7th Heaven, they now have a member in the top 10, while Octane is the only OP member left at the top. ONE! have gone back to winning ways with 4 members at the top, while Masters and Python have 2 members each.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2169	12/2	1
2	Octane			2167	3/1	-1
3	Buns157			2041	0/0	0
4	tornado			1987	2/0	0
5	Hergul			1971	3/3	NEW
6	master of desaster	1933	1/0	0
7	malakkan		1916	0/2	-2
8	Edge			1883	6/5	0
9	FiveStarGeneral		1865	2/0	1
10	Corn Silver		1862	1/0	NEW

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Word Walker, with 15 games (2 wins, 13 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 12 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: koning, rose 13 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: stefano36000 and Asurados, dropped 10 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: koning, gained 65 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Word Walker, lost 59 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: tornado, 5 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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Welcome to another late-night edition of the weekly update. Another week of shifting rank 1's, with Rufus and Octane duking it out for the top spot of the ladder. The ladder sees Rufus in first at the end, with a multi-win but probably also just single-loss advantage of 27 rating points compared to Octane. Rufus went 13-3, which resulted in a rating loss of 2, showcasing just how brutally efficient you need to be at dispatching your opponents to stay on top. Octane on the other hand went 2-3 and suffered a 60 rating loss as a result. Lower in the list we see Buns157 with a win to offset the activity bonus drop for a stagnant rating. Tornado in 4th was similarly stagnant, going 1-1. Hergul had an unusually bad week, dropping below 1900 rating and down to 8th place. This paved the way for a surging FiveStarGeneral to jump to 6th in the standings off the back of a 4-0 week.

Ladder participation peaked at 73 players during the week, but saw a late week drop to settle at 71 as of now. There's currently 11 unranked players on the ladder, one of which is surdiac who I promised to mention as a reward for beating me on biomes. That loss brought me below 1800 rating again...
Interestingly I don't think Timinator left the ladder at any point, but his pace of play sees his amount of finished games in the last 150 days drop to 19, leaving him unranked.

The quick climbers of the week were aforementioned FivestarGeneral, Baer and a returning MoriOri. FSG's 4-0 week extended his winstreak to 5, a streak which includes wins against Rufus, Octane, Edge and Hergul. Very impressive. Baer's 6-1 week included a win againt Photonic Symmetry and propelled the Corp player 75 rating upwards, straight into top 20. MoriOri evidently rejoined without me noticing it, but this was the first week back that saw the type of results we'd typically expect from the 2235-peak rating player. 3-0 with a win against malakkan saw Mori gain 62 rating.

In the clans department Masters, {101st} and Harmony each have 7 members on the ladder. Corp follows with 6, while ONE! and Python have 5 each. OP drops to a mere 4 members on the ladder, matching The Last Alliance. ONE!'s dominant ways towards the top are evidently here to stay, as they have 4 members in the top 10. Masters have 3, while 7th Heaven, OP and Python have 1 each.

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2147	13/3	0
2	Octane			2120	2/3	0
3	Buns157			2042	1/0	0
4	tornado			1984	1/1	0
5	master of desaster	1964	2/0	1
6	FiveStarGeneral		1925	4/0	3
7	malakkan		1913	1/1	0
8	Hergul			1899	3/5	-3
9	Corn Silver		1874	2/0	1
10	CraZy			1874	1/0	1

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Rufus and Word Walker, with 16 games each
Most Wins: Rufus, with 13 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Baer, rose 11 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Syphen, dropped 12 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: FiveStarGeneral, gained 80 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Hergul, lost 99 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Rufus, 7 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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As another week comes to a close, it is time to take a look back at the events of the MTL. Rufus rounds the week out in first place, having held onto that spot all week. After a couple of weeks of close ratings, the MTL goat seems to be properly back where he usually resides. Octane was at one point as far as 60 points down, but a late week loss put Rufus in a more manageable 28 rating lead. Rufus' week saw an impressive 12-3 performance, including wins against Octane, Buns157, FiveStarGeneral and tornado, the ladder's current ranks 2, 3, 4 and 6. Octane went 3-1 himself, keeping his rating stable. Buns157's 2-1 saw a similarly stable rating. The big rating swings in the top 10 came courtesy of FiveStarGeneral, tornado and Edge. FSG's 4-1 performance saw them jump 2 spots to 4th in the ranks, while tornado's 1-3 week saw a similar decline in ranks. Edge went 4-0 including a win against tornado to reenter the top 10.

Outside of Edge, the quick climbers of the week were Vaups and QuixoteG. Vaups went 2-1, but their loss was to Rufus and thus meaningless to their rating, while their wins were against similarly rated opponents. QuixoteG's 6-2 week saw multiple wins against low rated opponents, which explains the relatively small 49 rating gain despite the 4-win surplus.

This week once again ends with 71 players on the ladder. Once more we saw the typical flow of a slight increase early in the week, with a drop off towards the weekend. 61 ranked players leaves 10 unranked, highest of which is seasonal winner Naviiso at 1652 rating. Timinator and Crimson King (aka The Gunslinger) are back to being ranked after Timi finished enough games to get reranked, while Crimson King rejoined the ladder.

The most prominently featured clan on the ladder is once again Harmony, sporting 7 members. There's a four way tie for second as Masters, CORP, Icelandic Turtles and {101st} all have 6 members on the ladder. Optimum in 6th has 5 players on the ladder. The merger between Python and ONE! has caused a swing in clan memberships, hence the sudden presence of Icelandic Turtles. I imagine we will see a few more swaps to the reemerging clan in the coming weeks, as there's still a total 6 ONE! and Python members on the ladder. With Hergul swapping from Masters to Turtles alongside the merge, the top 10 is suddenly dominated by the Turtles as 4 of their 6 ranked members find themselves towards the top. Two of the remaining ONE! members still sit at the top, while 7th Heaven, OP, Masters and Python all have a single member at the top.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2146	12/3	0
2	Octane			2118	3/1	0
3	Buns157			2046	2/1	0
4	FiveStarGeneral		1967	4/1	2
5	master of desaster	1954	2/2	0
6	tornado			1941	1/3	-2
7	malakkan		1927	2/1	0
8	Edge			1907	4/0	3
9	Corn Silver		1888	1/0	0
10	Hergul			1870	5/5	-2

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Rufus and SweetSasyMolasy, with 15 games each
Most Wins: Rufus, with 12 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Baer, rose 6 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: FisherKing70, dropped 9 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Edge, gained 54 points
Biggest Rating Drop: SweetSasyMolasy, lost 44 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: GUALANDI, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

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Another late night update, as is becoming tradition at this point. Rufus was in first all week and managed to extend his lead to 54 rating, albeit that was moreso due to Octane having a poor week than Rufus having a good week. Good obviously being relative, since Rufus did in fact go 9-3 (a game ended after the last weekly update but more than a week ago due to me being slow, hence the discrepancy compared to the top 10 chart) including a win against Octane, but his rating went down by 13 anyways. Octane's 0-2 week saw a loss to Edge, but since Buns157 dropped a game to Crimson King, Octane is still comfortably in second. FiveStarGeneral with a decent 3-1 week climbs to 4th, closing the gap to Buns157 to 29 rating. Malakkan in 5th had a strong 4-1 week, with their only loss being to Rufus. A resurging Hergul bounced back from a couple of bad weeks to reach 6th place, going 6-0 throughout the week. Notable wins include Rufus and Edge.

The quick climbers of the week were SweetSasyMolasy, simone and Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³. Molasy went 13-5 for an enormous 117 rating gain, with the highest rated opponent being Master Turtle. They also end the week on a 5 game winning streak. Simone similarly went on a tear, going 7-0 including a win against Tr4gic, netting them 89 rating. Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ went 8-4, but a win against Rufus will always push your rating heavily, and as such he pulled in 87 rating.

Overall ladder participation went down a bit, going as low as 67 during the week. After shifting around a lot, we ended the week on 68 players currently on the ladder. With 63 players ranked, this is the lowest amount of unranked yet joined players we've had since the relaunch. Despite the lower player count, ratings are unusually packed in the 1800 and 1900 ranges, so the top end of the ladder evidently wasn't hurt yet. We do know that rating consequences tend to take time to manifest though, so I expect we will see a drop in overall ratings for the top of the ladder in the coming months if the lower participation keeps up.

In the clans department, Icelandic Turtles come out on top. The merger progressing further means all of the Pythons on the ladder have finished migrating over, leaving 9 Turtles currently joined. In second we see Harmony, maintaining a strong presence with 7 players on the ladder. Optimum is back on track in terms of activity, growing to 6 members, while Masters and {101st] have 5 each. The top 10 also sees heavy Turtle presence, as there's 4 of them there. Some of the ONE! players either didn't get the memo or disagreed to the merger, as such both they and Masters field two top 10 players each. Optimum and 7th Heaven round out the list with a player each.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2133	9/2	0
2	Octane			2079	0/2	0
3	Buns157			2013	0/1	0
4	FiveStarGeneral		1984	3/1	0
5	malakkan		1963	4/1	2
6	Hergul			1951	6/0	4
7	master of desaster	1946	0/0	-2
8	tornado			1945	1/0	-2
9	Edge			1922	3/2	-1
10	Mr. Carpenter		1872	2/0	1

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 18 games (13 wins, 5 losses)
Most Wins: SweetSasyMolasy, with 13 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: SweetSasyMolasy, rose 13 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: lawm, dropped 10 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: SweetSasyMolasy, gained 117 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Word Walker, lost 64 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: simone, 9 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me.

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The time has come for another weekly update, and what a week it has been. Rufus has maintained first all week, despite a for him poor 12-4 showing that caused him to drop below 2100 rating. The gap to second is significantly bigger than usual though, as both Octane and Buns157 left the ladder. The lack of opponents above 2000 rating meant even 75% winrate was nowhere near enough to maintain rating. FiveStarGeneral becomes the new second place on the ladder, and a nice 4-0 week against admittedly unusually low rated opponents creates a decent gap to third. Malakkan in third's week could have been better, though the 2-2 performance did include a win against Rufus, which somewhat salvaged the rating loss from two rough losses rating wise.

The quick climbers of the week were Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, Bechaa and me. Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ with a monstrous 8-1 week climbed all the way into sixth on the ladder, gaining 97 rating. The only loss being to Rufus no doubt helped the climb along nicely too. Bechaa went 4-1, the loss likewise to Rufus. Winning against both Buns157 and malakkan boosted Bechaa's rating by 65, all the way up to 10th on the ladder. In a rare showing I managed to go 3-0 this week, with my win against Rufus barely putting me among the fastest climbers. The 62 rating gained set a new personal peak rating for me.

The big story of the week is that Texx did some promotion for the MTL in Harmony, resulting in a massive surge in participation, pushing the numbers all the way up to peak at 91 players on the ladder. End of week deflation saw the number reduced to 88 by the time of writing, but the increase since last week is still noticeable. Texx himself managed to go on quite the tear after rejoining the ladder, going 15-1 and at precent being on a 14 game win streak. Ending the week at 1751 rating, he's also close to breaking his prior highest personal rating. Fingers crossed the motivation to keep playing sticks around for a bit.
Despite the overall numbers looking great, long term participation is down this week, as the number of ranked accounts drops to 56. Multiple long ranked competitors have left the ladder, including Botanator, Himoon10, master of desaster and Torsten, alongside aforementioned Buns157 and Octane.

In the clans department, Harmony is expectedly dominant. At a whopping 34 members on the ladder, they account for more than a third of all accounts currently joined. Icelandic Turtles sits at 9 members on the ladder, maintaining that amount since last week. CORP has 6 members on the ladder, while {101st} and Optimum have 5 members each. The Turtles are the clan with the biggest top 10 presence, sporting 3 members in the high ranks. A few stubborn ONE! members still represent the pre-merger clan, leaving 2 ONE! members in the top 10, an amount they share with CORP by virtue of Corn Silver and Bechaa. 7th Heaven, OP and Masters all have a player each at the top.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2099	12/4	0
2	FiveStarGeneral		2013	4/0	2
3	malakkan		1951	2/2	2
4	tornado			1938	0/0	4
5	Hergul			1926	0/1	1
6	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1902	8/1	9
7	Edge			1886	1/3	2
8	Corn Silver		1883	3/2	3
9	Timinator • apex	1847	1/0	4
10	Bechaa			1836	4/1	6

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 20 games (11 wins, 9 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 12 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Naviiso, rose 13 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Tr4gic, dropped 7 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, gained 97 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Tr4gic, lost 66 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Texx, 14 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me.

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Welcome to another late night edition of the weekly update for the MTL. This has been another week with Rufus on top, while some interesting newcomers join the top 10. Let's get into it. Rufus went 11-0 this week, creating a monumentally large 175 rating gap to second place. Included in those wins was a win against FiveStarGeneral, who maintained second throughout the week despite a 2-3 showing, capitalizing on the previously established gap to third to get away with a poorer week. It of course helped that one of the two wins was against third place malakkan. Malakkan and Hergul are tied in rating, and both had fine weeks, going 3-1 and 2-0, respectively.

The quick climbers of the week were lawm, JesJug and philippe. Lawm went 6-0, beating 5 Harmony members and Master Turtle in order to jump 16 spots up the rankings by gaining 94 rating. JesJug's 4-0 performance gained them 80 rating. The rating gaps in that area of the ladder are pretty big, but JesJug still climbed 3 spots. Philippe's 6-2 started out with 2 losses, and ended with 6 wins in a row. Highest rated win was against PackMan97. The performance netted philippe 78 rating.

The player count this week dropped slightly to 85, which is unsurprising with the large amount of newcomers testing the waters of the ladder last week, but also means most of the newcomers decided to stay for now. Nice to see that member count stays high, as that will generally improve the quality of the ladder across all levels of play. Texx rushed to get ranked last week, and managed to get into the top 10 right at the end of this week, which is also very impressive. Ranked member count is at 55, showcasing how some players did in fact leave the ladder this week, but it is also my impression that most of the leaving players are only on temporary breaks.

In the clans department, Harmony is similarly dominant to last week. 34 active members on the ladder accounts for 40% of all players on the ladder, definitely dominant to a degree we haven't seen since the relaunch. Icelandic Turtles with the second most have 8 players on the ladder, while there's a dropoff to just 5 {101st} members at third highest presence. The Last Alliance, CORP and Optimum each have 4 members on the ladder. In the top 10, Turtles and ONE! have 2 members each. Hergul swapped to SNinja, Rufus is in 7th Heaven, Timinator is the sole Masters representative, I mark a long coming return of Outlaws towards the top, Bechaa overtakes CORP's spot from a leaving Corn Silver and Texx marks the first Harmony member in the top 10 since I started keeping track. An unusually large variety with an unusual absence of OP members towards the top.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2166	11/0	0
2	FiveStarGeneral		1991	2/3	0
3	malakkan		1948	3/1	0
4	Hergul			1948	2/0	1
5	tornado			1937	1/1	-1
6	Edge			1884	1/1	1
7	Timinator • apex	1875	1/0	2
8	MarkusBM		1836	1/0	4
9	Bechaa			1819	3/3	1
10	Texx			1814	5/1	5

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 23 games (11 wins, 12 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus and SweetSasyMolasy, with 11 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: lawm, rose 16 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Vîgørøūs Drāgøñ 🐉, dropped 10 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: lawm, gained 94 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, lost 90 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Rufus, 11 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me.

It’s a Harmony Invasion!

Outlaws lives! T.T

I have a feeling FSG likes outlaws but idk why

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Welcome to another weekly update. This week will be a bit brief, as a result of an exhausting weekend for me. Next week should be back to regular updates.

Rufus continues dominating the top of the ladder, as the lack of Octane or Buns157 continues indicating that there's currently noone on the ladder able to threaten that top spot. Also noteworthy is Syphen's ridiculous 10-1 week resulting in a 16 rank jump, a 135 rating gain and a nice new personal peak rating, especially since the only loss was to Rufus.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2133	9/3	0
2	FiveStarGeneral		2027	5/1	0
3	tornado			1952	2/0	2
4	malakkan		1914	0/2	-1
5	Edge			1895	2/1	1
6	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1891	8/2	6
7	CraZy			1859	3/1	4
8	Texx			1851	5/1	2
9	Timinator • apex	1851	0/1	-2
10	MarkusBM		1813	0/1	-2

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 18 games (7 wins, 11 losses)
Most Wins: Syphen, with 10 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Syphen, rose 16 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Bechaa, dropped 12 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Syphen, gained 135 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Bechaa, lost 117 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, 6 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me or Ralph.

Well done Syphen!

thanks texx! and thanks markus for the weekly updates as well, we all appreciate them

Amazing.

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Time for another weekly update, this time back to regular length. Rufus continues his first place streak, reaching 43 days straight at this point. The lead is also big enough that I expect Rufus will remain on top the entire upcoming week, as he's ahead of FiveStarGeneral by 122 rating. This week he went 11-1, only dropping a game to tornado. FiveStarGeneral's week was also net positive, going 5-1 only losing to Rufus,. Tornado in third only dropped a game to FSG, closing the loop on the top 3 round robin in proper rock-paper-scissors fashion, while all three had net positive weeks, as each one's only loss was that round robin loss. Tornado went 3-1 overall. In general, this week had strong performances from the entire top 8, as all of them gained rating compared to last week (Edge technically rates lower than last week, but misaligned update times shows his rating up by 1 from a week ago, despite the 1-2 performance). Rankings in the top 10 were unusually stagnant this week, with only Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ overtaking Edge.

This week's quick climbers were SweetSasyMolasy, Rento and Rufus. SweetSasyMolasy converted their high activity level into a strong week, going 10-3. The performance saw a lot of wins against opponents in the 1500's, leading to steady rating gains totalling 99, and an end of week rating of 1660. Rento faced and beat four opponents in Rento's lower end matchup range, gaining 57 rating overall and reentering the top 20. Rufus' stats were already mentioned.

The player count has tapered off slightly compared to the surge when Texx' Harmony recruitment drive initially happened. Despite this we find a solid player count of 79 at the end of the week, while the ranked member-count has been slowly increasing to 63 at this point, indicating that the players that have stuck around since the drive have also gradually reached the point where they finished enough games to get ranked. As a result, most newly ranked accounts are Harmony members.

In the clans department we see a similar picture to recent weeks. Harmony dominates the numbers with 28 members on the ladder, far ahead of second place Icelandic Turtles' 8 active participants. {101st} and OP both have 5 players on the ladder, ahead of CORP with 4. The top 10 sees 2 Masters, 2 Turtles, 2 ONE!'ers and one each of 7th Heaven, OP, Harmony and Outlaws.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2166	11/1	0
2	FiveStarGeneral		2044	5/1	0
3	tornado			1988	3/1	0
4	malakkan		1936	3/0	0
5	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1924	5/2	1
6	Edge			1883	1/2	-1
7	CraZy			1876	2/1	0
8	Texx			1862	1/0	0
9	Timinator • apex	1834	0/1	0
10	MarkusBM		1810	1/2	0

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: sfj, with 16 games (6 wins, 10 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 11 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: SweetSasyMolasy, rose 15 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: psinoza and Torsten, dropped 7 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: SweetSasyMolasy, gained 99 points
Biggest Rating Drop: philippe, lost 66 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Stales78, 5 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me.

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I'm back once again with another weekly update. Rufus continues the dominant streak, reaching 50 days straight in first. 66 to go to break Beep Beep I'm a Jeep's record 116. Rufus went 11-2 this week, which seems good until you realize Rufus is so far ahead of the competition at the moment that he lost 3 rating. The losses came to Timinator • apex and a returning Hergul. Both tornado and FiveStarGeneral left the ladder this week while activating vacations. As a result the entire ladder moved up in ranks, until Hergul rejoined and took over second place. They didn't have time to finish any other games than the one win against Rufus, however. Malakkan in third and Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ in fourth both had seemingly good 4-3 and 8-5 weeks, respectively. Despite this, both of them ended up losing rating, showcasing how even slightly below the top you need to maintain a high winrate if you want to stick around.

The quick climbers of the week were Syphen, Word Walker and Ares. Syphen went 5-1, only losing to Rufus and beating malakkan along the way in order to gain 90 rating, additionally pushing them into the top 10 for the first time. Very impressive stuff. Word Walker went 7-5, but still managed to secure 56 extra rating. Many newly ranked accounts on the ladder meant that this still resulted in moving down in the ranks, but with the way the ranked landscape tends to change week-by-week, this was still a good week for Word Walker. Ares went 3-0 while beating Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ along the way in order to gain 50 rating, a very respectable week.

Player count this week increased to 80, marking the first increase in player numbers since the Harmony push. Notably ranked player count increased to 67 this week, the highest it has been since the relaunch. The newcomers have finally had enough time to finish off their games and get ranked, and it shows in the numbers. This should gradually increase the rating numbers, and while the amount of 2k+ rated accounts has dropped (partially due to players leaving the ladder for various reasons), the amount of 1.8k+ rated accounts is on the way up. As more games finish, we should see a more and more pronounced shift, assuming player count remains somewhat stagnant.

In the clans department, Harmony continues to dominate. Currently they field 29 players on the ladder, with 7 of them not ranked yet. Icelandic Turtles in second drop to 6 members on the ladder, while {101st} and Optimum in joint third have 5 players each. The Last Alliance and CORP have 4 each. Though it is not a stat I have typically kept track of, it seems to me like there's an increasingly large amount of players on the ladder that act as sole representatives of their clans, which I find curious but not unwelcome. The more communities the ladder reaches, the greater the potential outreach the ladder has.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2157	11/2	0
2	Hergul			1969	1/0	NEW
3	malakkan		1932	4/3	1
4	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1902	8/5	1
5	Texx			1873	1/0	3
6	CraZy			1869	1/0	1
7	Timinator • apex	1859	1/1	2
8	Edge			1859	0/2	-2
9	Syphen			1837	5/1	9
10	MarkusBM		1820	2/1	0

(NEW implies the player wasn't ranked a week ago, whatever the reason for that may be)

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy, with 15 games (8 wins, 7 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 11 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Syphen, Botanator, QuixoteG, rose 9 ranks each
Biggest Rank Tumble: Dan, dropped 7 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Syphen, gained 90 points
Biggest Rating Drop: SharkBait, lost 55 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Stales78, 7 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Ralph typically does the interviews, but since he's had a very busy schedule recently we're falling behind on the interviews, so I'd rather suspend them until there's enough time to get them done once more.

That's it for this week, if you have anything you want to include in a future update contact me.