This week trophy earnings were noticeably down on recent averages, although it’s difficult to determine how much is due to the holidays and how much due to the week’s event encouraging Explores over PvP.
Either or both have certainly had an impact on the top 100 PvP table with many regular hardcore PvPers not appearing in the table this week leaving room for more names from outside the top 50 guilds.
Welcome to new guilds joining the top 50 this week and last week.
#The first non-holiday week of 2017 and here’s the update.
Back to normal it appears this week, although this week’s event didn’t make Explore as attractive as previous weeks so we’ll still need more data to understand whether events that promote Explore over PvP will have a weekly impact on the top guilds.
A welcome back to the top 50 for Willows who now hold the record for longest time from dropping out of the top 50 and returning: over a year! This is a solid effort since the competition to reach the top 50 has become more and more difficult as our beloved game grows in popularity.
Congratulations to Anonymous as the first guild to reach God level: 1 million trophies! I suspect they’ll be the only guild there for quite some time, but nothing is forever…
I might just be primed to notice such things this week, but it seemed that after the 1 million last week, a lot of Top 50 guilds turned over a new initial digit this week.
The event this week encouraged PvP with extra glory rewards but that didn’t seem to have much effect on the Top 50 guilds (I suspect much more effect from events on the activity of newer guilds/players).
The biggest specific effect on the top 50 trophy counts this week was Intrim continuing the recent trend for top guilds to organise a guild-wide big earning week - I understand their goal was a new weekly trophy record (as recorded here Sunday to Sunday), so congratulations for their successful completion with over 54,000 trophies.
Really nice spreadsheet! The guild I’m in (Tharul) will probably not ever make it on here, but I love basic statistics, so I can appreciate the work you must put into it. I don’t have a working computer anymore, or I would love to do some trend graphs and average/differentials charts. In reality, it would take too much work to do for each guild. And I doubt anyone (except math & statistics nuts) would find that any more useful than what you already have here. I’ll definitely check this out to see how each guild (especially those top 10s) moves about each week! Good job!
Congrats Intrim! You Intrimates are definitely among those quite revered gow players! Plus you have Saluki, He’s always quite helpful (and polite:smile:) to everyone in global chat! Not to say that other GM’s aren’t the same, but I think I see him most often!
Many guilds across the whole top 50 posted larger-than-average trophy earnings this week, resulting in the largest ever average weekly trophies across the whole league, despite no one guild posting close to record numbers individually.
One statistic I missed from last week was that it now takes more than half a million trophies to break into the top 10, not that this seems to deter newer guilds from setting a pace to reach the top 10 eventually.
Plus you have Saluki, He’s always quite helpful (and polite:smile:) to everyone in global chat! Not to say that other GM’s aren’t the same, but I think I see him most often!
