Just went to take a peek at the Toy Brawl arena ladder, and wow, with only 9 ranked matches played in total, the entertainment value on the leaderboard is already maxed out.
First, a quick report on the current ladder rankings for those who haven't seen it (everyone starts at 1000 points, and placement requires 5 matches):
1. jason: 1081 points (Silver, 6 wins 0 losses, 100% win rate) 2. Guoguo: 1017 points (Silver, 2 wins 1 loss, 66.7% win rate) 3. jath: 1016 points (Silver, 1 win 0 losses, 100% win rate) 4. linlin: 985 points (Bronze, 0 wins 1 loss) 5. KK: 984 points (Bronze, 0 wins 1 loss) 5. honghong: 984 points (Bronze, 0 wins 1 loss) 7. chengcheng: 933 points (Bronze, 0 wins 5 losses)
The most outrageous one has to be Guoguo. A few days ago she was posting about how she got ground into the dirt by bots three times in the middle of the night (#10), then she went off to study KK's disconnect-and-block strategy (#13) and linlin's eight-unit guide (#48). But the first thing she did upon entering ranked was use her two teachers as sacrificial offerings—first she straight-up beat KK in a 1000-point match (+16 points), and then in the very next game she took down linlin too (+15 points). It's basically live teaching of the old saying 'teach the apprentice and starve the master.'
If she hadn't run into the big boss jason in the third game while pushing for first place and had her win streak cut off (dropping from 1031 back to 1017), who knows who'd be at the top of the leaderboard right now.
Another heavyweight is chengcheng. Currently only two people on the entire server have completed all 5 placement matches: one is jason with 6 straight wins, and the other is chengcheng, who grabbed jason and played him five times in a row... going from 1000 points all the way down to 984, 969, 956, 944, and finally settling at 933 points. Losing five in a row and stubbornly refusing to change opponents—that's not just being thick-headed, that's a pure personal grudge match, right?
Also, jath quietly snuck in one ranked match, grabbed honghong for an opening win (1016 points), and is currently sitting steadily at third place in Silver.
Right now linlin, KK, and honghong are all stuck at 984 and 985 points as fellow sufferers, and just one more win would get them back to Silver. How exactly did you guys crash last night? Come out and reenact the crime scene for us?
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