Important announcement: I'm planning to reset the ladder on September 22, then going forward have a new ladder season every 6-12 months. There's a few reasons for this:
1. I want to stimulate ladder activity since it's currently a tad quiet. Starting a new ladder "season" can help with this.
2. The ladder is currently a little too inactive for goals like 1750 Elo to be reasonable for even the best players. At the time chuva achieved it, the top of the ladder had a fair number of active 1600-1700 players; now there's literally one 1650 and a handful of people around 1600. I want to try dropping the goal to 1700 and see how that goes. Similarly I want to lower the GXE requirement a bit, since the absolute best ladder players seem to be stuck at 90. Resetting lets me keep the appropriate credit to those who achieved these marks back when they were feasible while also making it so a little more of the playerbase can reasonably achieve the top badges, like in other gens.
3. I want there to be a reason for people who already topped out on a goal to keep going for ladder achievements, and I want to perhaps even add new achievements in new seasons and try other ways to make fun challenges. This also creates a cool seasonally-resetting challlenge to hit the highest peak elo/gxe/winstreak or be the first to hit the top badge.
I will not be deleting old ladder achievements, to be clear; I'll have a little seasonal archive where you can check out how people did in previous seasons. For the new season, you will have to make new accounts for any challenges based on Elo, GXE, or Winstreak; old accounts are okay for the fun challenges as long as they're achieved after the reset date.