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Graphics are terrible and the sound is terrible, and it plays a lot different when everyone has uav jammer instead of stopping power. Also annoyed that you can't hear footsteps at all but I'll give the game a while.
The battle engine is 99% done and we will be having a beta within a few weeks. If you really want to follow along with progress then you can watch our code repository at http://shoddybattle.com/hg
The jnlp points to more files on shoddybattle.com so downloading from some random site won't work. You'll have to figure out why you can't access shoddybattle.com (e.g. see the sticky)
If you click on the ladder name (e.g. OU) on the leaderboard page then it shows the top 50 . Here is the OU leaderboard for example http://www.smogon.com/shoddybattle/leaderboard/ou