Quote: who were exploiting the ladder
This players got banned and removed. It's the result of not playing with ESL Wire. Some people did think it's not administrated. (they didn't expect manual administration in Versus) They tried to exploit it. It was a bad try, it ended in a Versus ban for all games in ESL and an AC internal Ban.
Quote://Name: weR LurcH / taffgirl
//Ban Reason: ESL entering fake matches / ranking climber
//Server: none
//Ban Date: July 24 2012 - July 24 2013 / ESL BAN : Fake Account playing = 1 year ban
//IP: 79.212.0.0 - 79.212.31.255
//Proof: Master Server Log
http://www.esl.eu/eu/assaultcube/player/versus/3456298/
You also played against resident players from Assault Cube, befor you stopped to play. (FD, BoB, oNe, LC)
We also calibrated the played rounds to one played round.
Of course there are also new players from ESL which try out Assault Cube. That's the part where advertising start. That's the way how to win new players ingame. Beeing friendly and spending 2 or 3 minutes for them, to answer some question.