the leaderboards don't mean anything and haven't meant anything for a long time. i decayed off of the #1 spot that i have been holding for how long now, 15 months? just to show how lame everyone underneath me is.

the top 3 currently consists of someone i have a legitimate 10-1 ratio against, someone who i recently crushed in a series who can no longer refer to himself as the best idevice sparrer, and someone who does nothing but head-on spam in his matches. all 3 of them either exclusively spar noobs or only spar early in the morning when nobody decent is on (exclusively sparring noobs). the worst part is that the leaderboard gives the false representation of them being better than #4, izumi, and #5, tae. nobody can best an idevice from US or Sage, there are reasons why these 3 aren't in our guilds.

even bu7maid made it into the top 5 on our inaccurate leaderboard, i promise you that he hasn't sparred somebody with a positive ratio once in the past year.

if i could think of a way to make the leaderboards finally represent how skilled a player is, i would post it here, but i honestly have no idea.

maybe:

- make it so only one account per IP can be on the leaderboard. this would prevent people from immediately rising to the #1 spot after sparring only 40 times on their noob account, prevent people like comyt (heheheheheh) from covering the top 5 with all of his accounts to show off his dominance, and prevent people from using another account to spar to avoid sacrificing their rating.

- assign staff members to watch over the spar arena and actually pay attention to boosters.

- count exclusive noob sparring as a form of boosting and let them keep their wins and losses but kill their rating. sparring 10 negative ratios in a row should automatically clear somebody's rating completely. by implementing this feature, boost7maid would be nowhere to be seen near the big names on the leaderboard.

- make it so those who have stabilized their rating to under /80 have to spar at least 50 people a week. this would remove hoarders from the leaderboard and force them to sacrifice their score. if you cant stay at a high position, you don't deserve that high position. 50 people per week is pretty lenient too, that's what? 7-8 per day? if you cant handle this tiny amount of spars, you don't belong on a leaderboard reserved for sparrers.

this is the longest post i've ever made on this forum, hope you enjoy it instead of ignoring everything i just said and finding a way to attack me on it (the natural reaction of everybody who plays graal to seeing my name).