The CURRENT Ladder order as per March 26, 2012:
1 Humean
2 Billium248
3 chrish
4 Aldrin
5 DrPhil
6 matthewthegreat
7 1709314
8 Snail
9 ShadowMeldFS
10 The_Shrike
11 tooeasy1
12 wombadom
13 boston02
14 poxbox
15 CLMS_Brail
16 Hugh_T_Patterson
17 liammor
18 burgerkingchess
19 tangloky
20 Ninjoe
21 gramos9956
22 sandrei
23 win_of_the_win
24 Kaeri
25 Yellowhippo
26 cellmate454
27 thepassedpawn
28 Buffertigris
29 XavierPadilla
30 gambit78
31 Jim78
32 Kacparov
33 justdewit
34 Essence_of_Revenge
35 BenjaminSisko
Here is the Official Ladder Tournament part 2 thread for this group:
This is the official continuation of the original chess turtle ladder (see other thread). We've cleaned it up for inactive members and brought it up to date. The opening order for this part 2 of the ladder tournament is based on the ORIGINAL chess turtle ladder as it was at post #146 in the ORIGINAL chess turtle ladder thread.
I will update the ladder based on games played in the tournament (see rules below) and joining/leaving of members. Whenever we get a new member, I will include them at the bottom of the ladder. Whenever players become inactive, or doesn't respond to challenges, they will be removed from the ladder. They will then have to re-apply. This yields the CURRENT chess turtle ladder. Just to be clear, the order you see below is not the ORIGINAL or opening ladder order, but the CURRENT ladder order.
If you feel we removed you without proper justification, please let us know and we will add you to your rightful position based on the ORIGINAL chess ladder. This option will remain active until March 1, 2011. After that I can't readjust, as it would be unfair to the other active players
If you wish to join the ladder tournament, pIease let us know by posting in this thread and I will add you to the bottom of the CURRENT ladder. If you wish to opt out of this tournament (i.e. you do not want to be bothered with challenges, or whatever) simply let us know by posting in this thread, and I will remove you from the ladder.
The Rules:
1. The goal is to climb the ladder as high as you can. So you may only challenge someone higher on the ladder than yourself, or accept a challenge from someone lower on the ladder than yourself.
2. To be considered part of this tournament, the game must be clearly labeled as a part of this specific ladder. The challenge and the results should also be posted in this thread so that other members know who is available for challenging, and who is not.
3. You may only play in ONE ladder game at a time. Courtesy would dictate that if you just completed a game in which you issued the challenge to someone higher than you, you should give someone lower than you the chance to challenge you before issuing another challenge. If no one challenges you after a couple days, feel free to challenge again.
4. The challenge must be from the original starting position, and have color assigned randomly. All other variables are at the discretion of the two players, but some agreement must be reached. If a player simply refuses to accept a challenge on any terms, they will be removed from the ladder (please let me know if that happens - you may need to send them a message first to get around their settings). The games may be unrated.
5. If the player on the higher rung wins, there is no change to the ladder.
6. If the player on lower rung wins, that player now occupies the rung formerly held by the higher player. The higher player and all players between them slide down one spot as a result.
7. In case of a draw, the player on the higher rung maintains his position, and the lower player moves to the rung just below the higher player. All players between them slide down one spot as a result.
8. You may only challenge someone up to 10% higher on the ladder than yourself. So if we ever get up to 100 active members , then you can challenge someone 10 rungs higher than you. We round up, so at 32, you can challenge someone 4 rungs higher than you, etc.
I think that covers everything. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to post them here.