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Modern Warfare 2’s <\/em>first season of ranked play has come to an end, and Treyarch has revealed the distribution of players in each of the game’s skill divisions.<\/p>

In short, the overwhelmingly vast majority of players who played at least 30 ranked matches in season two of MW2 <\/em>reside in the bottom three tiers of skill divisions. Over half of all players, 51.3 percent of them, never made it higher than Silver.<\/p>

The distribution only gets more paltry from there. At the very top of the MW2 <\/em>rankings list, just one percent of all players made it to the highest rank of Iridescent, and only three percent made it to the rank below that, Crimson.<\/p>