It’s time to shake off the winter chill and welcome the fresh competition of Spring! The Spring 2025 Season of the Cribbage Pro Competitive Matchmaking Tournament is here – bringing a new opportunity to climb the ranks, refine your skills, and battle it out against the best. Whether you're looking to defend your position or make a name for yourself, now’s the time!
Before we jump into the action of Spring 2025, let’s take a quick look back at how the Winter 2025 season wrapped up.
Winter 2025
The Winter 2025 season brought in an impressive number of players, coming close to setting a new record for winter participation—historically the busiest season of the year. While feedback on this season’s changes was mixed, the overwhelming response was very positive, so we’ll be keeping the same format for Spring 2025. In the meantime, we’re focusing on developing exciting new features for the game later this year. This competitive matchmaking format continues to grow as the largest cribbage tournament available anywhere, and that’s all thanks to you. We truly appreciate your participation!
This Winter 2025 season saw a lot of changes in the Leaderboard over last season, with several of the top cribbage players showing up to bring their best game to the contest. However, I should also mention that we saw multiple players drop from their positions in the Top 50 during the last few weeks of the season simply due to lack of completing the 10 matches per week. It is important to remember that those adjustments that impact your CR from lack of meeting the minimum are "progressive" and build from week to week. At the same time if you return to getting your matches in even after missing a week or two, you can often recover if you can get enough new matches completed.
For the final results, holding on to first place we have a somewhat "regular" here, with "iPeg", followed by someone we have also seen near the top before with "TC2" in 2nd with a past best of 2nd place as well many seasons back (and in the top 10 / 50 multiple times too). In 3rd we have "Dhrun" up from 6th last season, and similarly someone who isn't new to the top positions (achieving 1st a few seasons back). Lastly, as honorable mentions for Winter 2025, we have "ernie313" who came all the way up from 43rd last season (and has a best of 2nd), to 8th this season and "Alaska47" up to 15th (a new personal best) from 46th! I also want to add a special thank you to "Alaska47" for helping to identify and squash a bug in the system this past season. I genuinely appreciate everyone who takes the time to report issues rather than assuming we already know—it truly helps make the game better for everyone!
With Winter 2025 now in the books, it’s time for a fresh start. Who will rise to the challenge this season? Let’s find out—see you on the leaderboard!
Special awards for the Top 50 players include in-game board pegs: the top player receives the "crown" peg, while others in the Top 50 get the "star" peg. These pegs are prominently displayed in online multiplayer games, serving as permanent badges of distinction earned through competitive play.
Reminder: Complete 10 matches per week! See the FAQ for details on the timing each week
Here was the final Top 50 for Winter 2025:
| 1 | iPeg | 26 | Crackula | |
| 2 | TC2 | 27 | jeezumjan | |
| 3 | Dhrun | 28 | pegmstr77 | |
| 4 | DAiello | 29 | TLC1966 | |
| 5 | nob4one | 30 | lbolt58 | |
| 6 | dcpastore | 31 | nvsru911 | |
| 7 | VGKnights | 32 | mm1515 | |
| 8 | ernie313 | 33 | Ronalds66 | |
| 9 | cyrusg | 34 | card55 | |
| 10 | kb92129 | 35 | niltes | |
| 11 | Br1Guy | 36 | Mrpadre | |
| 12 | Jimmymc | 37 | TheArgus | |
| 13 | FEC | 38 | Kinger765 | |
| 14 | SHOOTRR | 39 | Domerzag | |
| 15 | Alaska47 | 40 | 4KA | |
| 16 | AZwriter | 41 | grembin | |
| 17 | GregVee | 42 | dph | |
| 18 | jwr13 | 43 | vJimc | |
| 19 | RMK800 | 44 | Chivastt2 | |
| 20 | gsosin | 45 | catpat | |
| 21 | konadive | 46 | SamGash33 | |
| 22 | scout3 | 47 | shaneojak | |
| 23 | jjonell | 48 | BigCrbNRG | |
| 24 | Dpac | 49 | BennieO | |
| 25 | pscohen | 50 | warrior14 |
As always, if you have any questions, feedback on what you would like to see around awards, structure / format or anything else, email us any time at support@FullerSystems.com.
I do wish the game was totally random. It is obvious early on when the computer is going to dictate who wins. You learn the computer and try and second guess, but??? I love the game, the site is OK, just wish the outcome was not predetermined.
ReplyDeleteHi, good news, the card shuffle is absolutely random. As we have shown extensively with clear empirical evidence and published audits, it isn't stacking the deck or anything else like that whatsoever. See the FAQ for details, and follow the links there for the deeper discussion. If you do that and have any questions about it, email us any time at support@FullerSystems.com
DeleteBig Bull 12, I agree wholeheartedly. I don't think the intention is to be unfair, but for those of us who have been playing for decades know, it's clearly a flawed dealing system. Things that never happen in real life always happen here.
DeleteEvery season I start out getting buried by people who have no place winning, but get the most incredible hands and cribs. You can only beat someone 98-92 in hand scores so many times in a row where their average hand is like 10.5 and yours is 7.2 before you realize you're not winning regardless. I work in statistics and understand all too well that these things can happen, but they happen far too often to be considered random. It's demotivational and makes me want to quit.
In addition, I know from experience here that if you EVER place any cards within a few ranks of each other, your opponent is going to crush it in the crib so I've become accustomed to never being able to take risks there because you know what's going to happen.
It's a shame because I love cribbage and I play all the time and have in real life as well for decades but the constant inequity has me absolutely frustrated. The system has a predisposition to giving the better hands to the higher ranked player at the time. That being said, I've been the beneficiary in that situation as well but even then it's unfair and I just have to be happy that it's rigged for me in those instances. I love this app and I love cribbage but the faulty dealing is just becoming too frustrating. Now that the same thing has happened AGAIN and I went through an 8 game losing streak, I know I'll only be offered playing the low ranked people which makes it virtually impossible to catch up. Rather than spewing the company line about tests being done and it being completely random, I wish more testing and review of past games would be done until this issue could actually be rectified.
Hi "DrewBlue", if you "work in statistics" and want to conduct analysis against actual game data, I'm definitely open to letting you do that. I have let others before you do the same, and that is where several of the blog posts come from. These aren't just empty claims to being random. If you understand statistics, then I'm sure you can appreciate the data and audits I have already published too. Again, if you have the skills and background needed to conduct such analysis, email me any time at support@FullerSystems.com and we can work out how to get you access and conduct the analysis yourself. Let's develop and test your hypothesis.
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