OpenRA

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tttppp/ragl/master/docs/img/logo.png Rulebook Registrations Map Making Contest Schedule Weekly Highlights Standings Map Making Contest As in previous seasons we are having a community map making contest. The winning submission will feature as one of the maps in the...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tttppp/ragl/master/docs/img/logo.png Rulebook Registrations Map Making Contest Schedule Weekly Highlights Standings A summary of the changes from last season can be found at the bottom of this post. Full history of the RAGL Rulebook (including all previous seasons)...

021_LightVehiclesQueued.png This season has seen a further increase in the number of light tanks being queued. Flaks are also up, and APCs are slightly down (although they remain at a relative high point). On average a ranger is generally seen in each Allied build. I looked at the five players who ...

I wanted to get some better information about how successful spies are, so I went through all the Masters matches where a spy was queued in the last two seasons. Usually I'd include Minions too, but in Season 13 there were loads of Minions games featuring spies, so I decided to restrict the dataset ...

016_SpyUsageByFaction.png Spies aren't as popular as they were in the early seasons, but still manage to appear in 5% of Allied builds. Sadly Season 14 didn't see the same bias towards English spies that Season 13 promised, suggesting that the English spy is not a favoured faction special. France a...

015_AverageGameDurationsByDivision.png The average Master's game length has gone up this season by about a minute and a half. The average game length in Minions has come down a similar amount. Potentially this could be due to the players who've changed division or maybe the map pool. 015_NumberofAl...

012_AverageRifleToRocketRatio.png The average rifle to rocket ratio has continued to fall and this season almost reached an all time low at 2.42:1. 012_RifleToRocketRatioWinRate.png We can see that players using roughly a 2:1 ratio are still doing marginally better than those with a 3:1 ratio. Abou...

011_EngineersByQueuePosition.png Season 14 saw the highest rate of engineer-first builds. The chance that the first unit was an engineer almost reached 40% (up from 29% in S13 and 35% in S12). Engineers at other positions were correspondingly lower, with the exception of the 19th unit - which was a...

010_BuildOrderPopularityIgnoringKennel.png Build order popularity has stayed pretty consistent over the last few seasons. This season there was a slight reduction in "normal" double ref builds, offset by the "other" double ref category. Double ref with a ref sell (PP, Rax, Ref, Ref, Ref sell, WF) a...

Suggestions around map picks in Playoffs. Any thoughts on using the two-point lead scoring rule, for RAGL playoffs in the future? I think the biggest issue is really the size of the map pool. We could say that maps could be reused after some point, but it gets complicated to keep track of which maps...

On the topic of the removed Minions prize (which was there until Season 12):

(Not) New wrote: Is the reason minions doesnt have a prizefund for 1st, 2nd and 3rd because of smurfing/sandbagging?

Blackened wrote: sandbagging

playing down at a lower skill than you should

On the topic of joint second place in Minions: @tttppp do people in second spot get promoted Usually yes But it depends on number of open master spots But I would say 2nd in minions is pretty much a lock Yes that is what anjew said. Masters top 4, minions top 2 are basically guaranteed masters for n...

Some feedback from the competitive Discord. On the topic of creo forfeiting in the playoffs: damn that triple letter guy is corrupt as fk draggin someone in to play bronze who didnt play n either of the semis just give default win u dirty corrupt man this is just awkward mate, imagine if both semi l...

006_SuperweaponUsage.png Although roughly 20% of players get to T3, only a fraction of them build superweapons. Iron curtain is by far the most popular superweapon, with only 11 players building a missile silo and only two placing a chronosphere. (The two lines are relatively close together because...

005_DefenceBuildRate.png Soviet defences took a dip this season - flame towers dropping from 98% of builds to 90% of builds and teslacoils from 59% to 53%. Allied defences stayed pretty stable, although there was a slight drop in the use of camo pillboxes. 005_DefenceWinRate.png Interestingly build...