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Hello fellow fans!
Today, we'd like to bring some statistics to you about how many ladder games were played in the past seasons.
Graph A:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FsBtkgm.png)
As you can see in graph A, we saw a steady increase in games played from mid Season 36 to the end of Season 38. The average of games played has increased from just under 7,500 to over 11,000 games played (variable data time frame 2-5 days).
Graph B:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/SH6tfWg.png)
We also recorded, can be seen in Graph B, the total amount of ladder games played per season:
29th August 2015 for Season 36 with 253,835 games
30 November 2015 for Season 37 with 253,494 games
29 February 2016 for Season 38 with 273,231 games
While the total amount of games played in Season 36 and 37 are very closed each other, we see quite an increase between 37 and 38 about 19,700 games, an increment of 7% in games played.
Now, it is hard to exactly pinpoint the reasons for this most welcome increase in activity, since multiple factors could be playing into it, could have been the new rating system, the events created by teamliquid and non solo, but we certainly hope we did a good job to make ICCup a fun, challenging and rewarding experience to you.
We hope to do an even better job for the rest of 2016 and wish you all...
...GL&HF
NEW MAP PACK v39.0
I also take this opportunity to announce we released a new version of the iCCup Map Pack
Changes:
• Cross Game 1.06: Fixed pylon walling at 3 o clock
• Overwatch: Changed terran wall at top main, 1st marine spawns inside wall now and pylon walling at 6 o clock (and 12), bit harder to mine hop now
• Neo Medusa: Delete ‘Neo’
• Neo Jade: Delete ‘Neo’
• Latin Quarter: Delete ‘The’
• Fortress: Delete ‘The’
• Fortress obs: Delete ‘SE’
• ColloseumII 2.0: Change to Colloseum 2.0
• ResonanceII 1.0: Change to Resonance 2.0
• Grandline: Delete ‘SE’
• Circuit Breakers: Delete the plural ‘s’
• Luna the final: Change to Luna 2.1
• Hunters: Delete 'kespa'
• Added a version number for: Eye of the storm, Icarus, Longinus, Pathfinder, Tau cross, Circuit Breaker
It's important to use the new pack from now or the system wouldn't detect your ladder games
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Very good news, thank you for sharing this.
Long live Brood War.
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great news! i also feel like i have seen a huge increase of people on fish after 이영호 started streaming again.. also, i have heard non-starcraft related korean girls talking about BW again, both about bisu and flash's handsomeness... rebirth of bw?
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Excellent news. MakeIccupGreatAgain#
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Although 1 season being higher than the previous two is hardly a trend, it is uplifting news in itself  Hopefully this upwards climb continues.
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awesome
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Thank you for letting us iccup gamers here on TL.net know this!!
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great! how can one explain the huge peaks on the first graph?
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that's nice to read and to know! cheers to iCCup!
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On March 08 2016 06:27 zimp wrote:
great! how can one explain the huge peaks on the first graph?
Maybe tournaments with ladder qualification stages?
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"There are lies, damn lies, then there are statistics." - Mark Twain
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On March 08 2016 07:29 vOdToasT wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2016 06:27 zimp wrote:
great! how can one explain the huge peaks on the first graph? Maybe tournaments with ladder qualification stages?
Sounds logical but need to check dates and i dont know. Someone can verify?
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As you know, in the mapping scene there are several maps that have a ‘Neo’ or ‘New’ prefix. The iCCup map pack previously had some maps with the neo included while others had dropped it and just changed the version number to 2.0 instead.
When hosting maps, it is convenient if players can alphabetically jump to a map by typing the first letter.
For this reason, all the maps with a neo prefix have been changed. Also maps with ‘The’ at the start.
Neo Jade is now Jade 2.1
Neo Medusa is now Medusa 2.2
Neo Overwatch is now Overwatch 2.1
Which is inline with the convention that was previously established with
Aztec 2.1
Beltway 2.0
Bloody Ridge 2.1
Chain Reaction 2.0
Electric Circuit 2.1
Ground Zero 2.0
Heartbreak Ridge 2.1
Sniper Ridge 2.0
Tornado 2.2
The Latin Quarter has been labelled just Latin Quarter now.
‘The Fortress’ has been corrected to just Fortress now.
ColosseumII 2.0 has been changed to Colosseum 2.0.
The II was superfluous, following the previous conventions.
ResonanceII 1.0 has been changed to Resonance 1.0.
'Resonance I' was a 4 player map concept that was never published. So this map being called Resonance II is not necessary.
Grand Line SE 2.2 has been changed to Grand Line 2.2.
Again, the SE is superfluous.
Dantes Peak SE 2.0 hasn’t been changed yet, because I bloody forgot alright!
Luna the Final has been changed to Luna 2.1.
Hunters had ‘kespa’ in the title, it has been changed to Hunters 1.1.
Version numbers added:
Benzene 1.1
Circuit Breaker 1.0
Eye of the Storm 1.0
Icarus 1.0
Longinus 2.0
Pathfinder 1.0
Tau Cross 1.0
So, which have I got wrong?
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If you make a map called ‘Neo’ the filename/map title would be ‘Neo 1.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The’ it would become ‘1.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The 1.0’ it would become ‘1.0 1.0’.
If ‘The 1.0’ was changed significantly, it would become ‘1.0 2.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The The 2.0’ it would become ‘The 2.0 1.0’.
If a map was called ‘Neo Neo’ as the first version ever released, it would become ‘Neo Neo 1.0’.
If ‘Neo Neo’ was changed significantly it would become ‘Neo Neo 2.0’.
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Version 1.06 Cross Game
-Fixed pylon walling at 3 o clock
Version 2.1 Overwatch
-Changed terran wall at top main, 1st marine spawns inside wall now
-Changed pylon walling at 6 o clock (and 12), bit harder to mine hop now
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hmmm idk how i feel about the removal of "neo," i have definitely had older players ask for legacy versions of maps so it might get confusing
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did notice a lot more people in ladder D-C
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On March 08 2016 08:02 CardinalAllin wrote:
If you make a map called ‘Neo’ the filename/map title would be ‘Neo 1.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The’ it would become ‘1.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The 1.0’ it would become ‘1.0 1.0’.
If ‘The 1.0’ was changed significantly, it would become ‘1.0 2.0’.
If you make a map called ‘The The 2.0’ it would become ‘The 2.0 1.0’.
If a map was called ‘Neo Neo’ as the first version ever released, it would become ‘Neo Neo 1.0’.
If ‘Neo Neo’ was changed significantly it would become ‘Neo Neo 2.0’.
Hahaha I like ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/paR22AL.gif)
What would this map be called, then:
A significantly revamped version of the map "The Neo 1.0 Neo 2.5" ? :D
Also what I do not really understand is the second digit? Is it version number like the when you have a significantly changed map version and only change some smaller details it becomes 2.2? Or what?
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Hello, iCCup.Face.
I think it's a little naive to celebrate a 7% increase in games played from the previous two seasons. You'd have to compare it to data from many more seasons prior to determine whether this is significant or not. There might have been more games played in Season 38 because it was in session during the holidays and also because people were practicing for the TLS Championship tournament. I'm skeptical whether this recent spike in activity has anything to do with the new iCCup rating system due to how long ago it was implemented. With the return of FlaSh, I imagine interest in Brood War will soar for a while.
On another note, if you delete "kespa" from the title, how are people supposed to distinguish this Hunters map from the one created by Blizzard? If you delete the "Neo" from Neo Jade, how will people distinguish it from the original? In my opinion, these changes do nothing but cause confusion and lead to more waiting time in the lobby downloading maps.
Shalashaska_123
P.S. I couldn't help but laugh at these:
• ColloseumII 2.0: Change to Colloseum 2.0
• ResonanceII 1.0: Change to Resonance 2.0
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I'm really happy with that. Yet, I can't help but wonder how much more activity would have showed if BW's pesky router-/windows-/technical difficulties were nonexistent.
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Thanks.
ICCup is so important for the BW community. Great work!
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