Haha, yeah.
Let’s see if he’ll have been hindered by skill or behavior.

MI should do it before ESL #2 season is over making room on Worms League for TTL to be hosted there.

Never won anything huge but I vividly remember a victorious FTM Intermediate tourney, haha.
It’s a fond memory. I was just lurking on the sofa not expecting to make it far but I assume that gave me the kind of right composure.

Also took the opportunity to dig in the past and apparently I managed to win silver with the help of Kayz in an Intermediate 2vs2 at the 2011 Olympics. Who the hell are Chip and Dale, by the way?

Then also noticed I defeated Tita at the 2014 Winter Olympics which should count for something.

I happened to end up first in TUS Free season 2. But I must’ve used tactics because I certainly wasn’t better than either Darío or Koras.

My best ONL finish ever was 9th in 2009. And I think that was also the time when I peaked—at least in Intermediate scheme. End of 2009 was when I started playing significantly less and started working on CWT.

So, I ain’t got much to offer but I’m pretty sure every winner of CWT since 2002 is very proud of his achievement—rightly so. That would be Xaositect, Jigsaw, Fantomas, Dario, Random00, Johnmir, Mablak, FaD, chuvash, Rafka and Tade.

I maybe got an idea but I don’t know if it applies to your specific projects for making native mobile apps.

Since TUS has become somewhat of a central go-to point for everything related WA community I was thinking that other WA related projects could integrate some of the data coming from TUS. I was thinking that the mobile apps might take advantage of the backend that already exists for TUS. And maybe some of that API could be exposed to third-party consumers.

For example retrieve general user data from TUS like clan and country or also use an account on TUS to sign-in on other sites (OAuth). Of course the websites that could make use of this already exist and I’m not assuming many websites coming up in the future but oh well … that’s our community, right? It’s all for the funs. I’m owning CWT and WL and I would certainly use that API.

Starting with just a quick preface that’s skippable: The screen shots show exemplary data exported from NNN that I used as testing data. Still, don’t take anything for real—it might be modified. chuvash for example never made that game comment. The data is out there in public so I felt right to grab it. Sorry if that offends anybody. This website (Worms League) has never been public so far and it’s screen shots from my private development environment.
Having mentioned NNN, this website is entirely unrelated. I have to say and gladly do so, though, that the looks of this website are based on a draft for a website Darío made some 20 to 25 years ago for an unrelated project. I have his permission.

That’s that. If you want to read more details on the site you might just read up on the conversation I had with SIBASA and KRD in Discord but I’m going to do some write-up now:

The website is almost your typical registration with email/password combo and then a form to upload replays and report games with then calculations done by a ranking system to generate the ladder. There’s extra nitty-gritty with some stats and maps (proudly powered by WAaaS) and commenting games.

The ranking system is too complex to give a definitive explanation here. But here’s some idiomatic orientation of what’s behind it: It takes your won rounds and streams that through what I call “relativizers” which means it puts this rather absolute number of won rounds into relation. The relations are factors like quality of opponent. Yet again I tested it against the NNN season rankings and it performs similarly. Though, I’d say WL rewards activity a little more.

Working on the website was started before ESL came up and I had no original idea of what WL would eventually become. As I now realized I’m inching closer to completing it for initial release I was wondering what scheme to start with and then I saw ESL. I’m not 100 % ready for release, but existing games could be added to the site later on.

I was really excited to see what schemes people came up with by the way. So, ESL is a great idea and I’d be happy to play supportive role.

Map with a message. I like it very much!

I assume we all feel activity declining for the last decade. I did the math.



Again without Classic league as it distorts the view.



Zooming in on more recent years.



Here's NNN league activity. Some data is inaccessible unfortunately. I have attained conflicting versions of data, so there are two plots.



These graphs as an attachment:

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The script that made these graphs:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from datetime import datetime as dt, timedelta
from functools import reduce
import re

def fmt_dt(s):
  return dt.strptime(s, '%B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S')
 

with open('tus.tsv', 'r') as f:
  ll = [x.split('\t') for x in f.read().splitlines()]

R = {l[0]: [] for l in ll }
for l in ll:
  start = fmt_dt(l[2])
  end = fmt_dt(l[3])
  g = sum([int(re.sub('[^\d]', '', s)) for s in l[4].split(', ')])
  dur = (end-start).days+2
  R[l[0]].append((start+(timedelta(days=dur/2)), g/dur, 2))

for k,v in R.items():
  R[k].sort()

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

mx_y = 0
for l,vv in R.items():
  xs = [v[0] for v in vv]
  ys = [v[1] for v in vv]

  plt.plot(xs, ys, 'o-', label=l)

  mx, mx_i = -1, -1
  for i,(x,y) in enumerate(zip(xs, ys)):
    if y > mx:
      mx = y
      mx_i = i
  mx_y = max(mx, mx_y)

  label = "{:.2f}".format(y)
  plt.annotate(round(mx, 1),
               (xs[mx_i],ys[mx_i]),
               textcoords="offset points",
               xytext=(0,5),
               weight='bold',
               color=plt.gca().lines[-1].get_color(),
               ha='center')

plt.yticks(range(0, int(mx_y), 5))
xticks = sorted(list(set([a[0] for b in R.values() for a in b])))
xticks = (reduce(lambda acc, v: acc + [v] if len(acc) == 0 or (v-acc[-1]).days > 300 else acc, xticks, []))
plt.xticks(xticks, [d.strftime("%m/%y") for d in xticks])
plt.grid(True, linewidth=0.5, linestyle='-')
plt.ylabel('games')
plt.xlabel('season mid (month/year)')
plt.title('Average games a day per season')

plt.annotate('https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/seasons-info/ (May 7, 2022)',
             xy = (1.0, -0.1),
             xycoords='axes fraction',
             ha='right',
             va="center",
             fontsize=10)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.legend()
plt.show()


Data from https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/seasons-info/ in TSV format:

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