Overview: This is a ladder competition, which means that you can play as often or as little as you want, and you move up and down the ladder based on how often you play and how well you do.  When you join the ladder, you are given a starting point value and placed into a list of all the other players/squads who have joined the competition.  Every time you play, you get some points, and every time you win, you get more points.  You can also lose points for forfeiting matches or being too inactive (not playing enough).  Detailed ladder setting below tell how many points and for what.

How to Schedule Matches: You can schedule matches against other players/squads yourself by clicking "Challenge" next to a player/squad in the ladder.  You then follow the instructions to pick a proposed date/time and other details.  If your opponent accepts the challenge, the match is on, and a "Match Details" page is created.  You can get to the Match Details page from a number of places in your profile, including the "My Challenges and Matches" section of your GGL profile page.  You can use the Match Details page to communicate with your opponent and to double-check the date/time of your match.

Game Settings: You an your opponent should use the "Comments" section of the Match Details page to discuss and agree on what game and match settings you want to use.

Ladder Settings:
- 70 points awarded for a win (regular win or forfeit win)
- 30 points awarded for playing (win or lose)
i.e. if you play and win you get a total of 100 points (60 + 40). If you play and lose you get 40 points.
- 25 points LOST if you decline a regular challenge (but there is NO penalty for declining an Instant Challenge)
- 50 points LOST if you forfeit a match
- 3-day “Challenge Active” period – this means that if you receive a challenge, you must respond (either by accepting or proposing alternate times) within 3 days or the challenge is automatically marked as a “Decline” and you lose 25 points (this does not apply to an Instant Challenge).
- If you do not play a match or issue a challenge within 7 days, you are marked as inactive and you lose 50 points. You will continue to lose 50 points every 7 days that you remain inactive in the ladder. Once inactive, you can re-join the competition, but you will not be given back the points lost while inactive.
- You can only challenge a particular player/squad three times within 7 days.
- You can only challenge other players/squads within a certain range of your spot in the ladder: either 20 spots up or 10 spots down in the ladder, OR within 20% of your points up the ladder or 10% of your points down in the ladder (in other words if you have 1000 points you can challenge players/squads up to 1200 points or down to 900 points).