Ranks and Points

By finishing maps on DDNet servers, you can gain ranks and points.

Ranks

Every time any player finishes a map, their finish time is logged to a file. These times are known as ranks. If you are in team 0, your times are simply referred to as ranks, but if you finish in any team (1-63), you're times are known as team ranks. All rank and team rank data can be viewed on the DDNet website as either Global or Regional ranks.

Ranks (team 0)

Finishing a map in team 0 gains you a rank for that map. Team 0 is the default team a tee is assigned to when joining a server. Even though it is referred to as team 0, you can think of it as being "not in a team". If a group of tees is halfway through a map in team 0, you can cross the start line and catch up to them. This would not be possible of those tees were in a team, because you wouldn't be able to interact with them. This allows for players to "cheat" parts, or do what is known as team 0 skipping. For this reason, non-team ranks recorded for a map are usually much faster than team ranks, because they probably skipped a number of parts, taking advantage of being in team 0.

Team Ranks (teams 1-63)

Before crossing the start line on a map, you can join a team by using the /team chat command. In a team, if one player kills they will be put back into team 0, so they will not be able to go catch up to the rest of their old teammates. If you use the /lock command, you prevent anybody else from joining your team unless you invite them with the /invite command. If your team is locked, any tee who kills will result in killing the entire team, but it will keep you in the same team rather than placing you back in team 0. Finishing a map in a team gains you a team rank for that map. Since team 0 skipping is not possible in a team, the recorded team ranks for any given map are often a better representation of players playing the map as the design intended.

Global Ranks

Global ranks is a term that refers to all map finishes globally. This includes finishes on every server from every region. If you go to the map pagefor any map, you can see the global ranks by default. This page displays both global ranks and global team ranks (referred to as "records" and "team records").

Regional Ranks

Regional ranks is a term that refers to map finishes across all servers in a specific region. If you go to the map page for any map, you can click on a specific region in the sidebar to see regional ranks for that map. For example, here is the USA ranks for the map "Sunny Side Up". These are the regional ranks for USA.