WarLight’s ladders are a great way to earn points! Up until now, the formulas that the ladders use to give out points have not been revealed. This blog post reveals it all.
All of the ladders award points to players who are rank 30 or better. However, they do it at different times — the 1v1 and 2v2 ladders award points every 24 hours, whereas the seasonal ladder awards points when the season ends. This reflects the goals of each ladder. In the seasonal ladder, your goal is to achieve the highest rank at the end of the season (mid-season ranks don’t matter.)
The number of points they award is based on this formula: (31 – rank) ^ 3 * 0.6 + 1000. This gives about 17k to the #1 rank and 1k to the #30 rank.
The seasonal ladder also multiplies this by the number of days in the season. This means that all three ladders award the same amount of points over time. (Although technically, the seasonal awards slightly fewer since we usually take a few days off between each season.)
2v2 ladder
The 2v2 ladder is especially ripe for giving out points! Since it awards points to all teams rank 30 or better, and the there are currently only has 26 ranked teams, you can earn points even if your 2v2 skills aren’t quite legendary yet. If you’re a member, now is a great time to grab a partner and improve your 2v2 skills on the ladder.
Nice way to improve number of teams in 2v2 ladder.
It is very useful for points, one of the reasons I rejoined, however you might get teams surrendering the first turns of some games to get to 10 games as quickly as possible. Also if people want to get points asap put games to 5 at a time to get ranked as quickly as you can.
That’s a self-solving problem. Once a few teams do this, they’ll start being rank 31 or higher and will have to start trying.
True, but people might start it now and then start playing well once they get ranked, to stay above 30.
Being 29th is hardly worth it for the points IMO, so if people want to keep surrendering for a low rank then let them I’d say.
Also when will season 11 start?
Season 11 starts after season 10 ends :). You can see the end date by clicking the season name from the dashboard.
Just checking in case I misunderstood, being say 30th in the seasonal ladder when it finishes is worth 60,000 points?
I think you are reading that right.
So I am currently 18th. If I stayed there I would get about 139,000 points?
I think this is a great idea to try and get more and more exciting competition in the ladders. I do think it’s weird that it’s top 30 for both 1v1 and 2v2, when there are so many more people in the 1v1 ladder. It seems like it should be more like top 45 or 60 for 1v1 ladder (don’t worry, I’m not in the top 60, I’m not looking for points myself :P)
The points rewards make a very rewarding play for the 2 VS 2. I have levelled up about every 2 days due to me and the constant name changing • apex being 10th!
All due to *your* skill of course 😉
From Gui’s 2v2 ladder analysis, my win % with skunk is only 5% lower than with Timinator. So Skunk is 95% as good as Timmy!
Will there be a 3v3 ladder as well?
Or perhaps a 2v2 ladder with a map pool of the 10 most popular maps?
I don’t understand top 30 for 2v2 ladder. There are not 30 teams even active. It should be top 10 or 15 on that ladder.