from what i've gathered:
jeremy's leaderboard used to auto update ranks with every kill, which was fine until mass pvp happened, and the monitor would miss kills, go down, etc.
so he changed it to update ranks every now and then(maybe manually triggered?) to save resources
what ended up happening was new players to the system were rank 0, which put them at the top of the leaderboard and caused other annoying issues
so he set the default rank for new players to be 100000 or whatever until their rank gets updated with the rest of them
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