{"id":972,"date":"2013-08-23T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.warlight.net\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-08-23T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:00:42","slug":"points-from-ladders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/points-from-ladders\/","title":{"rendered":"Points from ladders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/warlight.net\/Ladders\">ladders<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>All of the ladders award points to players who are rank 30 or better.  However, they do it at different times &#8212; 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&#8217;t matter.)<\/p>\n<p>The number of points they award is based on this formula:  (31 &#8211; rank) ^ 3 * 0.6 + 1000.   This gives about 17k to the #1 rank and 1k to the #30 rank.<\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<h1>2v2 ladder<\/h1>\n<p>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&#8217;t quite legendary yet.  If you&#8217;re a member, now is a great time to grab a partner and improve your 2v2 skills on the ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight&#8217;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 &#8212; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/points-from-ladders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Points from ladders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}