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Whoops, completely forgot to do the update yesterday, sorry about that. Guess we're going to see some more wonky stats due to overlapping weeks then. First of all, Happy New Year! Hope you had a good one, and well wishes for all in the coming year. This week started out with Rufus and FiveStarGeneral battling it out for first, constantly overtaking each other. However, a few days in FSG started a vacation causing him to leave the ladder, as a result Rufus sits solidly in first once more. 11-4 leaves him 1 rating down from a week ago, but 57 rating ahead of second place. Speaking of, Aika climbed to second on the ladder with a 5-2 week including wins against both Rufus and Xenophon. Xenophon in third went 4-2, beating tornado to solidify third for the moment.

The quick climbers of the week were Ursus, philippe and tito. Ursus went 11-5, starting out the new year strong by reentering the 1900's, gaining 76 rating and taking over 5th on the ladder. Philippe's 7-4 saw wins against SweetSasyMolasy and yeahboi37, resulting in a rating gain of 66 and securing a rating above 1500 once more. Slightly ahead we find tito, who went 4-0 this week, establishing a 5 game win streak and making a major rank jump by gaining 63 rating.

Activity is down since last week, evidently getting back to work after the Christmas break means less time for the MTL. As of writing we're on 76 active players, 69 of which are ranked. 7 unranked players is more than last week, and the highest rating among them is a rejoining Motoki sitting on 1890 rating and 7 finished games.

In the clans department we see Harmony still on top with 11 players present, while Optimum and Wink in second have 6 each (bear in mind I'm writing this as Plat's kicking people from wink, so that information will be incorrect once this is posted). The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW have 5 players each. The top 10 sees three Optimum players, two Wink members, one Icelandic Turtle, one Myth Buster, one Master and one The Last Alliance'er. There's 28 clans represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2086	11/4	0
2	Aika			2029	5/2	3
3	Xenophon		1998	4/2	0
4	tornado			1961	1/2	0
5	Ursus			1932	11/5	4
6	nickpugs3		1859	6/7	7
7	Timinator • apex	1856	1/0	5
8	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1854	10/8	2
9	Ares			1848	0/2	-1
10	Photonic Symmetry	1847	2/2	4

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: SweetSasyMolasy and yeahboi37, with 20 games each(9 wins, 11 losses each)
Most Wins: Ursus and Rufus, with 11 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: tito, rose 14 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: SweetSasyMolasy, dropped 8 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Ursus, gained 76 points
Biggest Rating Drop: SweetSasyMolasy, lost 75 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: tito and rgza, 5 wins in a row each

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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Time for another weekly update. This has been a week with Rufus mostly on top, though FiveStarGeneral did briefly hold and contest the top spot at the start of the week. Since FSG left the ladder Rufus went on an absolute tear, with a monstrous 21-3 week, resulting in 85 rating gained while in first place. This has cemented a 74 rating lead over second place Aika. Aika was no slouch this week either though, going 16-4 and gaining 74 rating to keep the lead similar to last week. Octane rejoined the ladder and settled into third, one rating behind Aika, and continued the trend of the top of the ladder having great weeks with a 9-2 performance. The internal head-to-head in the top three saw Aika beat Rufus twice, Octane beat Aika, and Rufus beat Octane. Rounding out the top five we saw an Optimum-slaying tornado go 3-0 and a rejoining Hergul who's yet to finish a game.

The top climbers of the week were Platinum, Rufus and Aika. Since I already talked about Rufus and Aika, the runner ups were Master Cowboy and Fisherking70. Platinum's week saw plenty of activity with a 16-5 record including wins against both Xenophon and Ursus, for a wild 213 rating gained. Master Cowboy went 5-1 with the strongest win being bhj6 for 73 rating gained. Fisherking70's 4-0 week extended their win streak to 6, saw a win against yeahboi37 and resulted in 50 rating gained.

Activity jumped all the way up to 83 in the middle of the week, up 7 compared to a week ago, though that number mellowed out to 79 as of writing. There's currently 12 unranked players on the ladder, with Motoki as the highest rated at 1993 rating. The ladder generally seems unusually stacked with talent at the moment, and we briefly saw 11 players above 1900 rating at one point (including Motoki and master of desaster), though with a couple of drop outs that has dropped to 9 at present.

In the clans department Optimum and Harmony are in joint first with 11 members each on the ladder. In third we find Masters with 6 players, then The Last Alliance, Harmony CW and Icelandic Turtles have 5 members each in joint fourth. Optimum dominates the top 10 with 5 players there, while five clans have one member each, those being Magnus, Myth Busters, Icelandic Turtles, SNinja and Masters. There's currently 30 clans represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2161	21/3	0
2	Aika			2087	16/4	0
3	Octane			2086	9/2	NEW
4	tornado			1999	3/0	0
5	Hergul			1939	0/0	NEW
6	Xenophon		1932	7/8	-3
7	nickpugs3		1920	14/9	-1
8	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1876	12/8	0
9	Timinator • apex	1870	1/0	-2
10	Ursus			1865	12/12	-5

(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 Ursus, with 24 games each(21/3 and 12/12 respectively)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 21 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Platinum, rose 23 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: SweetSasyMolasy and malakkan, dropped 10 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: Platinum, gained 213 points
Biggest Rating Drop: bhj6, lost 84 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Octane, 9 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

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Time for another weekly update. I'm pretty sleep deprived so if I write some nonsense that'd be why. This was a week with lots of ups and downs which eventually settled with Octane in first place. Something I didn't mention last week was the absolutely insane level of activity compared to normal. At one point only three players in the top 10 had less than 15 finished games within the past 7 days, and one of those still had 10. Definitely the highest we've seen since the ladder relaunched. Activity this week hasn't been quite as insane, but it's not far off. In the top 12 players the lowest number of finished games this week was 7 by tornado, everyone else had 10 or more. The high activity level set up several players to have wild rating swings along the way, and as such we saw Rufus drop from 2161 to somewhere in the 2080's, only to reclimb to 2149 at the end of the week. Octane went 9-1, beating ranks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, while only dropping to 5th place Xenophon. Rufus went 14-6, starting out rough but winning his last 8 in a row to salvage a solid hold on second place. Aika in third also went 14-6, finding time to beat Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ twice in one week.

The major outlier in the top 10 this week was FiveStarGeneral who dropped by 130 rating and down to 8th in the standings following a rough 7-game losing streak which is still ongoing. When your baseline is almost 2100 rating losses hurt a lot, and FSG certainly felt that this week.

The quick climbers of the week were Platinum, SweetSasyMolasy and sfj. Platinum's back to back quick climber spots were fuelled by a 13-3 week for 189 rating gained, beating both Aika, Rufus, Motoki and tornado along the way. As such he now finds himself in 7th on the ladder. SweetSasyMolasy may have been kicked off the top spot in terms of activity, but with 19 games played and 12 wins among them this was still a highly active and very succesful week for the Harmony member who gained 113 rating. The most impressive win of this week was against Master Turtle. Another Harmony member, sfj went 10-7 and gained 103 rating, benefitting heavily from the higher ratings that newcomers to the ladder had to offer.

Following a recruitment effort from Master Cowboy, we saw a significant spike in activity on the ladder. As a result activity peaked at 93 concurrent players, a record since the relaunch. In classic MTL fashion however, that number dropped towards the weekend, and at time of writing we have 87 on the ladder. At only 69 ranked players, we have 18 unranked and as such newer players on the ladder this week, highest rated of which is master of desaster at 1876 rating (who admittedly is only unranked because his games from July started expiring without being refreshed with new games).

In the clans department Harmony is on top with 16 players on the ladder. Optimum in second has 11, while Masters and Icelandic Turtles have 6 each. In a tie for fifth we find The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW, each with 5 players on the ladder. Optimum continues dominating the top 10, with 5 members there. Similarly to last week we have no other clan above one member, the represented clans being Magnus, Myth Busters, Masters, Icelandic Turtles and ONE!.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2170	9/1	2
2	Rufus			2149	14/6	-1
3	Aika			2079	14/6	-1
4	Motoki			2021	12/7	NEW
5	Xenophon		2021	9/3	1
6	tornado			1974	2/5	-2
7	Platinum		1964	13/3	14
8	FiveStarGeneral		1964	2/9	NEW
9	Ursus			1942	14/7	1
10	nickpugs3		1938	9/7	-3

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Ursus, with 21 games each(14 wins, 7 losses)
Most Wins: Ursus, Rufus and Aika, with 14 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: Platinum, rose 14 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: bhj6, dropped 13 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Platinum, gained 189 points
Biggest Rating Drop: FiveStarGeneral, lost 130 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Rufus, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

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Another weekly update, slightly delayed. I saved the stats I need around the time I normally do the update though, so it should be accurate anyways. Octane spent the week in first place, mostly with a solid rating lead. 3-0, though the most notable win was vs Hergul, so no properly high-rated opponents. Rufus ends the week in second after an 11-4 week. Despite not picking up any 2k+ rated wins this week, the performance was enough to gain rating, and as such Rufus is currently 41 rating behind Octane. Motoki in third continued his impressive climb, going 14-3 on the week and breaching the 2100 barrier for the first time. A loss to Ursus last night put him back below 2100, but it's still a +89 rating week. Platinum briefly left the ladder shortly before I took the stats, meaning we have a 10th place below 1900 rating again, though the gap between 9th and 10th is currently 78 rating points.

The quick climbers of the week were MoriOri, Word Walker and Motoki, with honourable mention CraZy. MoriOri went 14-2, beating Ursus, Motoki, Xenophon and Platinum in the process, in order to gain 237 rating. This put them back in the top 10, although their absence from the top mostly came from a boot and non-joining spree back in October. Word Walker went 9-5 in order to gain 105 rating. A low starting point rating-wise set up great conditions in terms of gaining rating back, and as such the wins massively outweighed the losses. CraZy went 8-4, including wins against both Aika and Rufus, resulting in 67 rating gained. The positive streak resulted in CraZy breaking into the 1950's for the first time since before the MTL relaunched, though two of the losses coming in as the most recent results does mean the rating isn't quite at its peak anymore.

Participation rose slightly to 88 from last week, though the vast majority of the week saw 89 players on the ladder (thank you Platinum for leaving just before I grabbed the stats, and rejoining just after). 70 ranked players means 18 unranked, highest rated of which is SerFen's 1887, 7 games away from being ranked.

In the clans department Harmony remains on top with 16 players joined. Optimum in second has 10 players, while Masters, The Last Alliance, Icelandic Turtles and Harmony CW all have 6 players each on the ladder. The top 10 sees 3 Optimum members, 2 Masters and 2 Icelandic Turtles, while Magnus, Myth Busters and ONE! all have one player each represented. There's currently 28 clans on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2188	3/0	0
2	Rufus			2143	11/4	0
3	Motoki			2097	14/3	1
4	Ursus			2045	12/3	5
5	Aika			2030	7/6	-2
6	tornado			1980	1/0	0
7	Xenophon		1979	7/7	-2
8	CraZy			1979	8/4	4
9	FiveStarGeneral		1977	2/1	-1
10	MoriOri			1899	14/2	23

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Motoki and SweetSastMolasy, with 17 games each(14/3 and 11/6, respectively)
Most Wins: Motoki and MoriOri, with 14 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: MoriOri, rose 23 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Mongoose and Syphen, dropped 7 ranks each
Biggest Rating Rise: MoriOri, gained 237 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Syphen, lost 79 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Octane, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

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Time for another weekly update. Octane spent the week in first, keeping a pace of play just barely fast enough to maintain a maxed out activity bonus. Still, 4-0 including a win against Rufus puts him well ahead of second as well as within striking distance of his personal all time highest rating, while extending his ongoing winstreak to 12 games. Rufus in second went 13-4, enough for minor rating gains. Motoki and Xenophon were his highest rated wins this week. Motoki in third learned the harsh nature of being highly rated, since his 6-5 performance resulted in 68 rating lost (compared to the peak and new personal best he achieved at 2118, which overlapping update times seems to have decided was his rating a week ago). When you reach 2100, beating 1700's is no longer enough to maintain rating. Decent activity in the top 10 in general, not exactly near the levels we saw a few weeks ago but still plenty of finished games. Platinum managed to set a new personal rating record of 1999, but unfortunately barely didn't get to break 2000 before a couple of losses put him back down to the mid 1900's.

The quick climbers of the week were CrYsT, MoriOri and bast. CrYsT went 4-0 beating both SweetSasyMolasy and RED STAR for 92 rating gained. The nice week extends an active winstreak, and as such CrYsT has won their last 8 games in a row. MoriOri's 10-3 week netted 75 rating and saw both Ursus and CraZy beat, while bast went 4-2 but beat both Ursus and nickpugs3 to gain 66 rating. MoriOri finds themselves back in the top 10, let's see whether this stint also ends in a boot-spree or if they're here to stay. Bast tends to have some pretty big rating swings, spending time at both 1780 and 1690 in the past two months, but the nice wins this week could indicate an upcoming increase of their personal highest rating.

Participation ends the week where it started, at 88 players on the ladder. Unusually we saw the opposite pattern to most weeks, as player count dropped early in the week but reclimbed towards the weekend. 76 players currently ranked is the highest we've seen since the relaunch, indicating a larger amount of accounts settling in and staying on the ladder rather than just testing it out, which is nice to see. SerFen is currently the highest rated unranked player on the ladder, at 1903 rating and 13 finished games.

In the clans department we see the usual picture of Harmony on top with 16 participants, as Optimum stays in second with 12 players on the ladder. The Last Alliance in third has 6 players while Masters, Icelandic Turtles, CORP and Harmony CW have 5 players each. In the top 10, Optimum reigns supreme for the moment, sporting 5 players at the top. Icelandic Turtles and Masters each have two players, while Magnus rounds out the list with one. 30 clans find themselves represented on the ladder.

In case you were curious btw, you need to finish 2.8 games a week on average in order to maintain a maxed activity bonus.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Octane			2219	4/0	0
2	Rufus			2152	13/4	0
3	Motoki			2045	6/5	0
4	FiveStarGeneral		1993	3/2	5
5	Xenophon		1988	5/2	2
6	tornado			1965	0/1	0
7	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1962	8/6	4
8	Platinum		1961	9/5	NEW
9	CraZy			1938	5/6	-1
10	MoriOri			1930	10/3	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 20 games(12 wins and 8 losses)
Most Wins: RED STAR and Rufus, with 13 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: CrYsT, rose 15 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: JonnyMr.RaffleBot'sBestFriend, dropped 14 ranks (for whatever reason the emojis in the name don't show on the forum)
Biggest Rating Rise: CrYsT, gained 92 points
Biggest Rating Drop: bhj6, lost 71 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Octane, 12 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

[In case you were curious btw, you need to finish 2.8 games a week on average in order to maintain a maxed activity bonus.]

Wow thanks I actually learned something today.

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Another week down, another weekly update up. Octane spent most of the week in first, but eventually his win streak ended (after 15 wins in a row) and shortly thereafter so did his reign in first. Rufus was the one to end both of those, and as such finds himself atop the leaderboard once more. A 13-2 week resulted in 47 rating gained, which established an 8 rating lead over Octane at the time of writing. Xenophon finds himself in third after a nice 7-2 week and 28 rating gained, with another week like this he'll contest his all time highest rating. Platinum in fourth finally managed to break the 2k rating barrier, reaching a new personal best of 2020. He went 10-4 to do so, with the most impactful win of the bunch being against Rufus.

The quick climbers of the week were Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, me and Elucidar. Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³ "only" went 4-2 but some overlapping results from last Sunday puts his rating gains to 84 for the week. My 4-1 week saw wins against both Aika and Ursus, resulting in 81 rating gained. This also set a new personal rating record for me, getting close to the 1900 barrier. Elucidar's 7-2 performance netted them 81 rating, another personal rating record achieved this week. Admittedly Elucidar's MTL history is pretty short, but all the more impressive to keep a consistent rating growth going across the three weeks they've been here. Just one more win to cross the 1700 threshhold.

Participation this week dropped relatively significantly compared to last week, and we find ourselves at 83 participants. Most of the week was spent on 85, but the usual weekend drop off happened. Ranked accounts are somewhat consistent with last week, as we see 75 players currently ranked, indicating that it was mostly newly joined accounts leaving the ladder again, an unavoidable side effect of recruitment efforts. Among the unranked accounts SerFen still rates the highest, with 1875 rating and 14 finished games.

In the clans department Harmony yet again reigns supreme. 14 players on the ladder puts them ahead of second place Optimum's 10, and even further ahead of third placer The Last Alliance with 6. Masters, Icelandic Turtles, CORP and Harmony CW have 5 players each. It should perhaps be mentioned that Optimum also made a clan war clan this week, aptly named Optimum Clan War. 3 additional Optimum members on the ladder belong to that offshoot. Optimum dominates the top 10 this week, with 5 accounts in the top. Icelandic Turtles is the only other clan with more than 1 member sporting two presences, while Magnus, Masters and Optimum Clan War have a member each at the top.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2199	13/2	1
2	Octane			2191	4/2	-1
3	Xenophon		2040	7/2	2
4	Platinum		2020	10/4	4
5	FiveStarGeneral		1987	3/2	-1
6	Motoki			1978	0/4	-3
7	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1969	4/2	0
8	tornado			1958	1/1	-2
9	Ursus			1912	10/8	2
10	MoriOri			1899	1/4	0

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Ursus, with 18 games(10 wins and 8 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 13 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Elucidar, rose 14 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: bleblble, dropped 21 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³, gained 84 points
Biggest Rating Drop: bleblble, lost 96 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: CrYsT, 10 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

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Time for another weekly update. This week saw Octane briefly grab the top spot, but a nasty losing streak has given over that spot to Rufus. Rufus went 16-4 but still lost rating overall, showcasing just how far ahead of the pack him and Octane were. Losing to an underrated Mr. Carpenter definitely did its fair share of damage to Rufus' rating, though having only one win against a player above 2k rating didn't help either. Octane went 4-4, but when your starting point is above 2200 rating, ending the week with 4 losses in a row will set you back heavily. The resulting gap between first and second is 67 rating. Xenophon finds himself in third, setting a new all time highest rating in the process (though his elo has been higher in the past). 7-2 with a loss to Octane leaves great conditions for the rating, and as such Xeno ends the week barely above Platinum. Speaking of, Platinum continues his low intelligence/high wisdom run of wins, breaking 2k, then 2025, then 2050 and now 2075. A 9-2 week only dropping games to Xenophon and CraZy leaves him well ahead of fifth in the standings.

The quick climbers of the week were Ursus, Stanlyboy and Samuel. Ursus went 13-6, gaining 67 rating in the process. While most of the wins were against lower rated opponents, a nice end-of-week win against Octane boosted the rating nicely. Stanlyboy's 5-1 week likewise resulted in 67 rating gained, sporting nice wins against Frank Iacobazzi and kwihade. Samuel went 7-4 and gained 65 rating. A nice win against Mr. Carpenter helped towards a new peak rating, though a defeat Sunday to CraZy left Samuel slightly lower on the charts again.

Participation this week kept dropping from the highs we've seen recently, ending up on 80 at the time of writing. The result is that many players on the ladder ended up climbing up the ranks a bit. 72 players currently ranked is also slightly lower than last week, with the highest rated among the unranked players being SerFen at 1932 and 17 finished games. They are looking nicely poised to grab a top 10 spot at their current pace.

In the clans department Harmony dominates as per usual. 14 members on the ladder is well ahead of second place Optimum's 9, while we find Masters and The Last Alliance in joint third with 6 players each. Fifth belongs to CORP's 5 members, while clan war clans Harmony CW and Optimum Clan War find themselves in joint sixth with 4 players each. In the top 10 Optimum dominates with 6 members represented, and a further one from Optimum Clan War there as well. Masters have two players there while Magnus rounds out the list with one. There's 30 clans currently represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2185	16/4	0
2	Octane			2118	4/4	0
3	Xenophon		2083	7/2	0
4	Platinum		2078	9/2	0
5	Motoki			2000	3/3	1
6	Ursus			1979	13/6	3
7	CraZy			1941	12/7	5
8	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1914	3/5	-1
9	nickpugs3		1898	10/9	2
10	7ate9			1897	8/5	4

(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 20 games(16 wins and 4 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 16 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Lumumba and Stanlyboy, rose 12 ranks each
Biggest Rank Tumble: Tjoex, dropped 17 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Stanlyboy and Ursus, gained 67 points each
Biggest Rating Drop: Tjoex, lost 79 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Platinum and Xenophon, 7 wins in a row each

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

You can find the Multi Template Ladder at: https://www.warlight-mtl.com/

Time for another weekly update, on a day where I'm exhausted after plenty of table tennis action. Let's get to it. Rufus spent the week in first, establishing a strong lead to second after Octane's poor showing last week. Most of the week was spent above 2200 rating and a strong winstreak almost saw Rufus hit 2250, though a Sunday defeat to tornado reset progress on that project significantly. Still, a 13-1 week leaves the rating at a solid mark. Octane's 3-0 week recovered some of the losses from last week, though a meager 19 rating gained still leaves a way to go. I was the highest rated opponent among those three wins. Xenophon presently finds himself on an 8 game winning streak, and somewhat solidly in third. 2125 rating is a further improvement on the new personal highest rating from last week, and the 11-2 performance he puts up underlines that fact nicely. Platinum is absent from this week's top ten due to illness (and expending a vacation to not have to worry about the game), which leaves a 141 rating gap between third and fourth, as well as no players between 2000 and 2100 rating.

The quick climbers of the week were Min34, GuestNWHSzY and Baer. Min34 went 5-1 with only a loss to Ursus while including a win against nickpugs3, resulting in 96 rating gained and a 12 rank jump on the ladder. Still a decent way to go before reaching his rating peak from 2020, but nice progress towards that nonetheless. According to the stats GuestNWHSzY went 2-1 this week, but the 72 rating gained includes two additional wins from last Sunday. The win against Ursus was the main catalyst for the large rating gain. Baer went 7-4 for 60 rating gained. Two non-join wins theoretically mar the stats a bit, but having two of the losses be against players 100 rating higher somewhat makes up for that, leaving a solid 5-2 week against balanced opponents.

Participation this week is down slightly from last week, spending the majority of the week on 79 players joined, which is also where we currently stand. 73 players ranked means we're down to just 6 unranked players, meaning lots of established players on the ladder. The low unranked player count may also imply that it's time for another recruitment push, so I encourage readers to spread the word. SerFen is still the highest rated unranked player, sitting on 1940 rating with just one more game to go before getting ranked, which would put them straight into the top 10.

In the clans department we yet again find Harmony on top, sporting 13 members on the ladder. Optimum is in second with 9, while we have a four way tie for third between Masters, The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW, each with 5 players representing them. In the top 10 Optimum's dominance has been curtailed a bit, so we see "just" 4 players from their ranks, with Masters being the main competition at the top with their 3 highly ranked players. Magnus, Icelandic Turtles and Outlaws round out the list of represented clans with a player each. Unusually we've seen an increase in the number of represented clans on the ladder, and as such there's currently 32 clans represented.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2221	13/1	0
2	Octane			2137	3/0	0
3	Xenophon		2125	11/2	0
4	tornado			1984	2/0	NEW
5	Motoki			1967	1/2	0
6	Forsaken		1925	4/1	5
7	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1908	0/1	1
8	MarkusBM		1902	2/2	3
9	CraZy			1901	2/5	-2
10	Ursus			1897	7/9	-4

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Crimson King, with 21 games(11 wins and 10 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 13 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Baer, rose 14 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: RED STAR, dropped 19 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Min34, gained 96 points
Biggest Rating Drop: RED STAR, lost 128 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Xenophon, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

You can find the Multi Template Ladder at: https://www.warlight-mtl.com/

Welcome to another weekly update. This week lots of stuff has happened at the top of the leaderboards, so let's get right into it. Rufus started the week out in first place, building off a strong last week to push the first place rating, peaking around 2251. Reaching that height took a period with 31 wins and only two losses, and the one to set off the subsequent rating losses was Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³. Rufus' week ended up with 13 wins and 5 losses, but lost 79 rating. Xenophon built on last week's streak, reaching 15 wins in a row and briefly overtaking first place for the first time, even getting his first game in towards the trophy. A string of losses pushed him back down to third over the weekend, meaning his 7-3 performance leaves him roughly where he started, both in terms of rating and rank. Platinum came back from illness and kept his streak going, posting a 6-1 week and only losing one of his last 19 games, that loss being to Rufus. As a result he's managed to keep pushing his rating peak ever higher, currently sitting on 2150 which is only 14 behind Rufus. Octane had a rough week, losing 5 games in a row to drop into the mid 2000's, ending the week in fourth. Still, a late week win against Rufus means the Optimum trio in 2-4th place all find themselves within striking distance of first.

The quick climbers of the week were Min34, Andre Laufmöller and JonnyMr.RaffleBot'sBestFriend (yet again the forum cannot handle the emojis). Min34 went 4-0, extending a win streak to 8 in a row and grabbing 88 rating in the process. Highest rated opponent was Ursus, so the winstreak includes some heavy hitters as well. Andre Laufmöller went 7-1, improving their rating after an apparently underrated initial ranking in order to gain 88 rating and jump 17 places on the ladder. Top 30 welcomes you Andre. JonnyMr.RaffleBot'sBestFriend went 5-0 to gain 72 income, recovering after a rough period of games to get back above 1500 rating. Still a bit to go before setting new personal bests, but a good start nonetheless.

Participation this week peaked at 81 players on the ladder, but ended up slightly below last week at 78 players joined. We did briefly see 77 ranked players at one point, and while the amount of unranked players remains the same at four, that does also mean the amount of ranked players is down to 74. With SerFen finally ranked the new highest rated unranked player is Krzysztof at 1629 rating and 9 finished games.

In the clans department Harmony remains on top of the activity charts. 12 active players puts them ahead of Optimum in second with 9 current participants. In joint third we once again see the four way tie between Masters, The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW, all on 5 active members. In the top ten we see more variance than in recent weeks, though Optimum's 4 present players still dominate. Masters have 3 players represented, while Magnus, Icelandic Turtles and Myth Busters have a player each towards the top. There's currently 32 clans represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2164	13/5	0
2	Platinum		2150	6/1	NEW
3	Xenophon		2110	7/3	0
4	Octane			2071	4/6	-2
5	Motoki			1984	2/2	0
6	tornado			1982	1/1	-2
7	Forsaken		1973	6/3	-1
8	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1962	3/0	-1
9	CraZy			1940	6/4	0
10	SerFen			1921	0/1	NEW

(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 18 games(13 wins and 5 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus, with 13 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: Andre Laufmöller, rose 17 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: t7soldier, dropped 10 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: Min34 and Andre Laufmöller, gained 88 points each
Biggest Rating Drop: Rufus, lost 79 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: Min34, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

This week’s update will be delayed until tomorrow

You can find the Multi Template Ladder at: https://www.warlight-mtl.com/

Time for a delayed weekly update, so there may be some slight inconsistencies in this and next week's stats due to games overlapping. An exciting week where Platinum almost took over first place, reaching 2175 rating at a point in time when Rufus had 2176. It wasn't meant to be this time around though, and some losses pushed Platinum back down a bit again after that. The result is that Rufus spent the entire week in first place, even if he himself ended up losing 5 games and dropping significantly in rating. 11-5 was Rufus' end result for the week. The losses of Platinum and Rufus (and to some extent Xenophon as well) ended up boosting several other top 10 players' ratings, as a result we at one point had 7 accounts over 2000 rating during the week. That's dropped slightly to 6 (with five of them ranked), but still shows how rating inflation can take time to properly manifest, but when it does it can happen in odd ways. Platinum left the ladder after some losses, saying he'll be back soon, while Octane's 9-2 week pushes him above Xenophon, shuffling a lot of players around among ranks 2-10. Interestingly every odd ranked player (in the top 10) ended up staying put in terms of rank, while every even-ranked player is different compared to last week.

The quick climbers of the week were simone, lawm and Rene Daycart. Simone went 6-2 for 88 rating gained, a strong performance made stronger by the three separate 1800+ rated wins they picked up. A new peak rating of 1811 puts a nice bow on the week. Lawm went 6-0 for 70 rating gained, bouncing back after some recent losses. The lower rating gained is partially explained by mostly facing weaker opponents, though a nice win against SweetSasyMolasy shouldn't go unmentioned. Rene Daycart went 5-1 for 61 rating gained, coming back from an 8 game losing streak to win 5 in a row and counting. Still a ways to go before a new rating peak is set, but a nice start to the process nonetheless.

Participation this week sat around 77 players most of the week, before a drop off around Sunday, resulting in 74 players joined at the time of writing. Of those 71 are currently ranked, indicating an unusually low amount of newer accounts on the ladder, though the joined numbers are still better than when I initially started keeping track, despite the consistent decrease in recent weeks. Highest rated among the three unranked accounts is Krzysztof at 1645 rating and 13 finished games.

In the clans department Harmony is on top with 12 players currently ranked. It is nice to see that the recruitment drive from five months ago sparked enough interest that the Harmony players decided to stick around for the long haul. In second we have Optimum with 7 members, while the four way tie for third appears yet again, with Masters, The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW all having 5 members each on the ladder. The top 10 sees 4 Optimum players and 3 Masters, while Magnus, Myth Busters and Icelandic Turtles all have a player each at the top. There's currently 30 clans represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2149	11/5	0
2	Octane			2091	9/2	2
3	Xenophon		2037	11/8	0
4	tornado			2016	2/0	2
5	Motoki			2013	4/3	0
6	FiveStarGeneral		1994	2/1	NEW
7	Forsaken		1968	6/3	0
8	SerFen			1961	2/0	2
9	CraZy			1936	3/1	0
10	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1914	2/4	-2

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Xenophon, with 19 games(11 wins and 8 losses)
Most Wins: Rufus and Xenophon, with 11 wins each
Biggest Rank Rise: lawm, rose 14 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: Emperor Norton I., dropped 9 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: simone, gained 88 points
Biggest Rating Drop: Emperor Norton I., lost 79 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: lawm, 6 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

You can find the Multi Template Ladder at: https://www.warlight-mtl.com/

Welcome to another weekly update. This has been a week with Rufus on top, though the gap to second is remarkably small at the moment. Rufus had an 11-3 week in which he gained 12 rating. One of those losses happened against Octane, who had a 12-2 week and managed to reach 4 points behind Rufus at the time of writing. Below those two there's a bit of a drop down to Platinum in third, whose 6-4 week caused him to lose 33 rating and drop below 2100. Still, Platinum manages to stay above a group of players hot on his heels, as we currently see 7 players above 2000 rating, reminiscent of ratings a year ago.

The quick climbers of the week were neet, Octane and SweetSasyMolasy. This week generally had unusually small amounts of rating gained by the quick climbers, but neet's 6-1 week and 69 rating gained was still a strong performance. Most notable win in terms of rating was against QuixoteG, and the rating gained resulted in a jump of 11 spots up the ladder. Octane's performance was already mentioned, but resulted in him gaining 53 rating. Other notable defeated opponents included tornado and CraZy. SweetSasyMolasy went 7-4, gaining 51 rating in the process. Molasy's high activity has previously caused large rating swings, but recently their rating seems to have stabilized within the 1580-1680 range, and this week's results have managed to push that upper boundary, which is a nice sign. Most notable win was Andre Laufmöller.

Participation this week started out around 74 players, and for a while it looked like that might be the amount we ended at too, but an unusual weekend spike in activity means we're sitting on 78 players joined at the time of writing. Among those we find 6 unranked players, top rated of which is Texx at 1773, who only figures on this list because he played so slowly over the past five months that his amount of unexpired games dropped below 20.

In the clans department Harmony's dominance continues, as they find themselves on 11 members on the ladder. Optimum is still in second, up to 8 players joined, while Masters separate themselves from the crowd by taking sole possession of third with 7 active members. In joint fourth we find a three way tie between The Last Alliance, CORP and Harmony CW, all on 5 players joined. In the top 10 we see 5 Optimum members and 2 Masters, while Magnus, Icelandic Turtles and Myth Busters have a member each at the top. There's currently 30 clans represented on the ladder.

The Top 10:

Rank	Player			Rating	W/L	Rank Change
1	Rufus			2142	11/3	0
2	Octane			2138	12/2	0
3	Platinum		2072	6/4	NEW
4	Xenophon		2054	11/4	-1
5	FiveStarGeneral		2013	2/0	1
6	Motoki			2002	0/2	-1
7	tornado			2001	0/1	-3
8	CraZy			1982	4/2	1
9	SerFen			1949	0/1	-1
10	Jacoþ thε Restle§°ⁿ³	1923	3/4	0

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

Stats of the Week:
Most Active: Xenophon, with 15 games(11 wins and 4 losses)
Most Wins: Octane, with 12 wins
Biggest Rank Rise: neet, rose 11 ranks
Biggest Rank Tumble: bhj6, dropped 14 ranks
Biggest Rating Rise: neet, gained 69 points
Biggest Rating Drop: bhj6, lost 87 points
Longest Ongoing Winstreak: lawm, 8 wins in a row

Player of the week:
The Player of the Week segment is temporarily halted. Since I doubt Ralph comes back anytime soon, there's an open position if you feel like interviewing some of the MTL players on a weekly basis, so feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

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

aw man, no more of these? also bump

We'll see, probably not for the next couple of weeks, but towards the end of the month I might be back with another update. Motivation's been lacking recently, but it tends to shift over time so I wouldn't say it's never coming back.

Edited 4/14/2025 00:26:22