TonyTonyChopper

The concept of "ranked competitive" systems, in general, evolved over time, but if we're talking about ranked competitive structures in games or sports, we can trace it back to a few key milestones in history:

Ancient and Medieval Competitions: Even in ancient civilizations, competitive games, including some forms of organized sports or games like wrestling, were often ranked in some way, though these rankings were informal.

Modern Sports Rankings: The formal idea of ranking athletes based on performance in a competitive environment began to take shape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially with the establishment of professional leagues. For example:

Tennis established its first official ranking system in the 1910s. Golf created a ranking system (the "Official World Golf Ranking") in 1986.

All of this was way before chess was invented, around 2014 or so.

Gotta wonder who has passed up the opportunity to buy Half Life 2 for the past 20 years, then suddenly decides to play it now

its most recent post is 3 months old 💀

My home is off the grid

Yet another L for industrial society

installing gpu drivers takes 1 command in the terminal on Ubuntu

I put "animals queueing" in the search bar and scrolled way down

we're at 22 view now. It's Lemmy viral

You fools. This was the only thing separating us from wild animals. Now they've surpassed us https://youtu.be/iLMtwHAIGh8

where are the rest of the parties?

Things are getting better. A new fiber-only network provider is expanding across my region so I got it installed a few months ago. No data caps, 500 Mbps up+down for $50/month.

well the police stopped him 7 times while he was driving