"bring it on"

Welcome to the Zhuang lab squash ladder!

After months of effort spent learning web programming and deciding on the right colour scheme, the web-automated version of the venerable Zhuang lab squash ladder is complete. Ok - just kidding, our ladder is hosted on a free squash ladder site that provides automated software to do all of this. Many thanks to the developers for their wonderful application.

How to use it? Go to the rankings page and click on the name of the person you with to challenge (you must be logged in to do this). You can only challenge people above you! The challenger and challengee receive emails to notify them of when they need to play the match by. Reminders are sent out if the game is unplayed and if no result is recorded by a certain time the match is forfeited and the challenger wins!

The squash ladder administrator (me, Mark) can modify certain parameters such as the challenge period and the 'grace' period for recording results of overdue games. Have fun, and play safe. -Mark

Note, that to make a challenge, go to the rankings page and click on that player's name.

Congratulations to Boerries for defending his number 1 position in the first ladder match!

There is no news yet! Boerries is getting the initial numero uno ranking, everyone else is randomly distributed. Mark

You will have noticed a points score appear next to player names on the rankings page (if logged in). This is a trial points rating system based on the classic Elo system. Players will be awarded points for winning and lose points for losing depending on how difficult the system calculates your opponent to be. It will take a few games to settle down the scoring system. Currently the rating is displayed for information purposes only but in future it will be possible to arrange the ladder ranking system around this points score.

This software is provided free of charge. To support further development of the ladder please consider making a donation. Thank you.