Ranked
Ranked is a term describing ranked servers, players who participate there, and tracks which are played on such servers. The most important difference between ranked servers and other (non-ranked, "casual" servers) is that the results of races on ranked servers are submitted to STK Player Ranking. This can cause some major and sometimes unexpected consequences.
Why Ranked is so different?
First of all, there is a type of players who care really care about ranking, their position there, etc. So players tend to be more concentrated to win as much time as possible to win more points, which is natural. Though, players can try to cheat for some reason, and some players can blame other players of rank that (in their opinion) is too big compared to the actual skill. Another thing are players' feelings even in a normal ranked race, depending on the amount of points they get, or depending on luck. So ranked can provide unbelievable emotions.
List of Ranked servers
Sorted by availability for European users which are the major part of players.
- Poland Ranked - normal race, the only European ranked server nowadays, known for having networking issues sometimes.
- Addons Ranked - normal race, has addons, one of the most modern servers, but some players complain on lags a lot so it may depend on player.
- Chicago Ranked - normal race, just a ranked server, not very popular though.
- HK STK #1 (Ranked) - time trial, the unique ranked server which should give 2.5 times more points... at least it should. Best for players from Southeastern Asia, may be playable for other players but it really differs.
- HK STK #2 (Ranked) - normal race, a server with same lags as HK STK #1.
Closed servers:
- Strasbourg Ranked - normal race, the other European ranked server which was pretty ok in terms of lags but was also old (it had version 1.0), which caused checkline issues and even ranking resets for players. Was closed after someone complained again and again.
- TextGames #1 (Ranked) - normal race, was closed in late 2019 (?). It wasn't as popular as European servers, though.
Other servers:
- London Ranked - a new (rumored) planned location for a ranked server.
- Bretagne Ranked, Ireland Ranked - pseudoranked servers.
Important links
- STK Player Rankings page
- Archive.org search pages for the current and old ranking pages
