Leaderboard

General

Website: http://www.perplexcity.com/leaderboard/leaderboard.build?start=1

The Earth Leaderboard is a part of the Perplex City website on which Earth residents can track how many cards have been scored, and by whom.

The website bears an ad which claims to cover weekly news on the board:

Coverage: http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/redirects/leaderboard.html

The movers, The shakers
Leaderboard coverage every week.

• A Sentinel article on 23-DEC-05 gives more hard data on the leaderboard, largely being a year-end summary.

• Noticeable shake-ups in the leaderboard have been seen to include:
  • The 22-OCT-05 event at clapham commons in london gave Oliver Keers and Ryandrew a slight edge with as-yet-un-released cards.
  • Emails sent to Firebox customers gave away free "copies" of a puzzle card, rapidly injecting many new users into the leaderboard.
  • The PCAG Earth Games promise to give points to players who do well.

References

• article, 11-OCT-05 "Sente's Team on Earth Delivers on Promises" (link)
• article, 18-OCT-05 "Five Top Earth Board After Week of Play" (link)
• article, 27-OCT-05 "Oliverkeers13 Breaks Away from Pack" (link)
• article, 31-OCT-05 "Earth Leaderboard Dominated by UK" (link)
• article, 07-NOV-05 "Leaderboard Adds to Top of the Pack" (link)
• article, 14-NOV-05 "Ryanandrew Makes Breakaway Play" (link)
• article, 21-NOV-05 "Half Million Points Earned to Date" (link)
• article, 28-NOV-05 "Second Wave Cards Disperse Leaders" (link)
• article, 12-DEC-05 "MrGoss Becomes Player Number Ten Thousand" (link)
• article, 19-DEC-05 "Two Million Points" (link)
• article, 23-DEC-05 "Leaderboard End of Year Round-Up" (link)
• article, 04-JAN-06 "New Year Begins with Dazzling Milestone" (link)
• article, 09-JAN-06 "3M Point Mark Passed" (link)