Hello, it’s that time of the month again where I copy/paste last season’s post and make minor adjustments as necessary! 
Note: This post mostly pertains to those players seeking the top of the Ranked ladder and competing in the next Monthly Cup. If you have no interest in such things, I recommend to read no further!
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As we near this season’s end, it’s coming time to select the Top 8 players from the ranked ladder, and the Top 4 Voted players who will be competing in our next Monthly Cup. As you may already know, season resets occur the first Monday of the month at 12pm CET.
That places this season’s reset to this Monday, December 5th at 12pm CET. Note that is the time we cutoff qualifications, the actual resetting of the ladder is a process that takes up to an hour.
The Monthly Cup will then take place the following Saturday as usual, on December 10th at 4pm CET.
All that covered, I’d like to remind everyone how the Top 8 Ranked and Top 4 Voted are selected.
For determining the Top 8 qualified Gods, the precedence goes in the ordering that players have qualified. Open qualifiers are determined first, then Votes, then God Ranks. Anyone having already qualified in any other fashion will simply cede their spot to the next player in the next list.
In addition to this, alternate accounts are ignored, and some accounts will be ineligible for qualification due to detected or declared account sharing. This can mean the actual Top 8 qualified players can be quite far down the list.
We’re working on improving the display of this on our website, but it will take some time. In the meantime, I’d like to provide everyone a list of all currently known players in the current Top #25 that will be ceding their spot to the next player in the list come calculation time, for any one of the above mentioned reasons.
Top 4 voted players:
- Gravekper
- kataztrophik
- AlphaW
- kanthik
The list of Ranked players that will cede their spot in the Top #25 is then roughly as follows:
- Sonneillon
- antirad (anti)
- Saturas
- Noaaa
- Maihem and GT-Miahem
- Pelorn
- Kingdanzz
A name in parentheses is the alternate account of that player and only the highest will count for qualification. When looking at the Top 8, ignore these names and go to the next in the list until you have listed 8 players. That will be how the calculation is done. Hopefully this will clear things up for you a bit.
If you are in the Top 25 and have alternate accounts not listed here, or are looking to cede your Ranked spot before the standings are taken, please let Atmaz know as soon as possible.
Note: This list may not be entirely accurate and there may be alternate accounts present that have not notified me previously. At the time of calculation we go through a verification process to make sure everyone has been justly qualified. If you earn your way to the top, we will make sure you get a spot in the Monthly Cup. This list is only provided as a rough guide.
Don’t forget that qualifying for placement via the Ranked ladder is not exactly the same as how seeding arrangement is determined. Seeding by Rank disregards how a player qualified.
Monthly Cup Seeding arrangement:
- 1: Invited Guest #1 (Winner of previous cup, $150 Krog’s Bounty)
- 2: Invited Guest #2 (2nd place of previous cup, $150 Krog’s Bounty)
- 3-4 Invited Guest #3 and #4 (randomized)
- 5-12: Highest 8 God ranks of all remaining qualified players, in order of #1- #8.
- 13-32: Randomized.
In short, it means that even if you are already qualified, there are incentives for placing within the Top 8 of the ladder.
Thanks, and have a great day!
