So it's been a while since any real announcements from me cuz Ame been slackin'
Let's change that!
I'm not in the mood to talk much as I type this at 4 in the morning, so simple and to the point:
League- I applied rankshifts this morning; Titania and Ciel took some pretty big drops but otherwise not much new
Ladder- The laddering competition ended a couple weeks ago. I took the winners on the day of Holiday party as promised, but I've been hush hush about it until now. The reason is because there was a ... disappointing amount of fraud involved with the competition, and as such, several people had to be discontinued from the running, when they otherwise would have taken the top places.
So before I announce the specific winners, let's be clear on something called Ladder Boosting.
Well, the concept is actually pretty self-explanatory, to be honest. It's staging and setting up battles for the purpose of increasing your ladder score. It might be your own alts, or a friend helping you do it, but either way, it is not okay. It's an insult to everyone who earns those points fairly and tries to play a fool of the system.
As a couple disappointed people will tell you after this season's competition, we are very capable of finding out who is doing these sorts of things. We will not hesitate to remove them from the current and future runnings.
That said, I'm proud to announce the winners of the Autumn 2012 Ladder Competition:
The OverUsed tier was the only tier judged to have had a substantial amount of competition by our previously-set criteria (top score of 1300+)... Your laddering champions for this season are...
OverUsed
3rd-[AO]Dark Desire
2nd- [AO]Berserker
1st- [Aquarius]Fruitjuice
Each of our winners will receive a prize of $R, Ace Membership status, as well as a place in a Laddering Hall-of-Fame page that we'll be putting up soon. Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who competed!
So, what's next?
The plan was to have another ladder reset and launch right into a new competition with some tier changes, but based on some issues that we've dealt with recently, I don't think we're quite ready for that.
Reborn's tiers have always been an odd bunch, and for some people that works, and for some people that doesn't. One common complaint is the dominance of weather, and such... as we've already confirmed in the Ace forum, we're going to be putting in a Clear Skies tier as our top priority for tiering. Look for it soon. c:
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