About the ladder
WARDOGS matches are three-sided. Every fixture puts three clans on one server as Lonestar, Valkyra and Manticore, and all three are scored. That is the whole reason this ladder exists: a two-team bracket cannot represent the game being played, so it would have to throw away a third of every result.
A season runs eight weeks. Clans challenge each other, the third seat fills from the open fixture list, and the ladder allocates the server and holds its RCON token so that nobody plays a rated match on a box they control. Results come from three captain claims and, where the feed is running, from the server itself — and the server outranks the captains.
What a clan commits to
- A roster of five or more, locked at the roster-lock milestone each week.
- A captain who submits a result claim with an unedited full-screen screenshot.
- Playing rated fixtures on ladder-owned servers. Self-hosted matches are allowed, and unrated.
- Accepting that a clan is rated, not its individual players.
Joining
Sign in with Steam, create a clan or accept an invite, then enter the current season. A new clan is unplaced until it has three confirmed results; until then the standings show how many it still owes rather than a provisional rating that would only mislead.
Before you ask
- Can we field a substitute?
- Yes, up to the roster lock. After the lock a substitute plays on a one-match pass and is marked as a temp on the fixture page. It creates no membership and no credit moves.
- What happens if a clan does not show?
- Fifteen minutes of grace from kickoff. A forfeit is a submission with evidence, not a button: the claiming clan has to show it had the minimum players present for the full fifteen and issued a five-minute warning.
- Do you rate players?
- No. One rated entity per clan. A player table exists, and it is descriptive - nothing on it feeds the ladder.
- What can you not verify?
- A published list, kept honest deliberately. Chat is not capturable, per-player zone contribution is not exposed by the game, and no MVP board here can reflect zone play.