Then how did PVMP get by before leaderboards? IIRC leaderboards didn't start until Mirkwood and skirmishes... Certainly there were no leaderboards before Moria. So then it begs the question, if you think its so important, how'd they do it back then?
Surugi stats started in january of 2009 drawing from the leaderboards weekly. We designed pvmpstats for daily shortly afterwards then it migrated to dailystats