rank 15 in Guildwars

I will try to explain to the neophytes what this is and what it represents

In guildwars you can participate in a 8v8 tournament that goes on all the time 24/7. you face something like 6 different stages to eventually get to the hall of heroes where you compete against 2 other teams to win the control of the hall of heroes, at that point you face other teams coming to challenge your position and you can be there for as long as you can keep winning games.

Winning in hero's ascent rewards you with fame points which are used to level up in the ranks of Hero, 185 fame gives you rank 3 and your first emote which is a deer, rank 6 is 1000 fame and is a tiger and theres other emotes for rank 9 and 12. rank 10 is 7750 fame, as you can see the fame recquirement rise pretty damn fast and it gets much harder to gain ranks at the higher levels.

The game has been out since 2004 and until then there was nobody with r15, (100 000 fame) and for a long time nobody with rank 13 and 14 (in fact i didnt know anyone was r14 (60 000 fame)until i saw this video showing the r15 emote http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeVs70UKVw)

so everyone that has been through elementary school knows that 7750 is much lower than 100 000 and getting r15 already seems like a big accomplishment but let me present you this in another way

You earn 1 fame if you win 1 game in heroes ascent, that number rises with consecutives wins, if you lose you get kicked out of the tournament and the counter restarts. the number of fame you get is 2 if you win 2 games, 3 for 3, 4 for 4 then it starts rising faster and eventually you get to the maximum which is 40 (after 13 wins in a row) for every win after 13 you get 40 fame.

but you have to win those 13 games and the competition in HA is very strong so getting there and staying there is already a huge accomplishment in itself

so getting 100 000 fame represents a lot of wins because its unlikely the guy could get to the 40 fame per win cap everytime he tried. very unlikely, so unlikely that i have no clue how to guess a number for that

lets look at it from my perspective, im a pretty good GW players, ive been playing for over 30 months, im a rank 5 with 786 fame. I never won the hall of heroes and i dont think i ever won more than 4 or 5 games in a row and that is playing with fairly decent teams most of the time (i didnt get much into the higher ranks restricted groups because of lower rank)

seeing that this person won 100 000 fame and got the rank 15 is an incredible accomplishment not only in terms of ridiculous amount of time spent playing but also cause it needed to be done while performing really well.