What is the Hall of Records?
The Hall of Records is a service designed to allow a fighter from any site to track his or her fighting record, and rank them among fighters from other sites according to their relative score.

Why?
Fighters across the entire web enjoy their sport, and they are very competitive about it. However, competition within a single site eventually becomes stale, and the fun wanes as fighters struggle to find new challenges. The Hall of Records aims to provide a link between sites, allowing fighters to mingle with new blood and ultimately enjoy a more rich experience.

How does it work?
League members can use the navigation at the top of every page to manage their league status, make challenges, and validate matches. All changes are automatic unless there is a dispute, in which case a judge can be requested to moderate or validate the match.

How Do I Use The Hall of Records?
The Hall of Records process is very simple. It is simply something extra you can do with the fights you're already having. It doesn't matter where you had the fight - when you've finished the fight, just log in to the Hall of Records, and click "Add Battle" in the top menu. It will allow you to select who you had the battle with, and then it will add it to the system.

The next step is for you to choose who won the match - go to "Running Games" and validate the winner. Your opponent needs to validate, too - but as soon as they do, points will be calculated and your records will be updated. Your match is now in the system, and you can add another battle now!

What this means for Gateway:
We've opened the Hall of Records up to all registered members of this site. There is no longer a need to "join" the league, simply register here and you're ranked.

When you have a fight here on Gateway, just go to the Hall of Records and add the results, and your rank will be adjusted automatically based on who you fought and who won. When you log in to the Hall of Records, you can get an image that'll fit in your signature that will display your worldwide fighting rank as well as your win-loss record. (You can see an example in my sig!)

Several websites (AnimeLeague, Metawerx, SkilledRoleplayers, RolePlayGateway) officially support the Hall of Records, and send representatives to manage their presence on the Hall of Records. If Gateway wants to send someone, let me know and I'll get everything taken care of. We're very close to releasing some new features (group ladders!), so the representative will be working with the Hall of Records on that.

Without further ado, The Hall of Records, a play by post combat league.

If anyone has any questions, comments or whatever, let me know here and I'll do my damnedest to help you out. You can use this thread to match up with other fighters, talk about fighting, and even make challenges. Enjoy!

A brand new feature, just launched today: an embeddable top 10 list of fighters from around the net. (See above post)

Embed this image anywhere to display live data from the Hall of Records.

The code in HTML:

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<a href="http://www.thegrandtournament.com/games.php?mode=scores" title="Top 10 Fighters"><img src="http://www.thegrandtournament.com/ladder.jpg" border="0" /></a>

And for forum threads:

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[url=http://www.thegrandtournament.com/games.php?mode=scores][img]http://www.thegrandtournament.com/ladder.jpg[/img][/url]

I've got to let you all know that we're announcing new management effective today, April 1st.

Oh hey, look. I just got bumped up to 4th place, after defeating Rize in an epic battle of Blazing Steel.

I've revamped just about every link on the site, and I've removed the limitation that limits you to one unvalidated fight at a time.

Thanks to everyone for listing their fights in the GT League, the single most cohesive ranking system and recordbook for turn-based fighting on the internet.

We'll be sending out invitations to the Grand Tournament 2008 very shortly. A link will be provided to the location, and you will be provided with everything necessary to participate.

If you don't have any fights listed, get them listed now or you'll miss out on the invitations. This is invite only.

I apologize that up until now, you weren't able to use your GT League signatures here on Gateway. The problem has since been resolved.

As a reminder, all competitors in the Grand Tournament should reply here with their GT League username if they wish to have their matches automatically recorded in the GT League Hall of Records.