AUGUST 16, 2026
👑 nytimes ended the day holding the hill · 0 crown changes · 23 dethronements · 2.2M engagements
August 16, 2026, on the Pittsburgh Penguins front. This was a day of unbroken rule: nytimes held the hill for all 24 tracked hours, and the crown never moved. Nobody in the elite ranks could put together an hour loud enough to take the summit.
The summit itself never fell, but the trenches were busy: 23 overtakes were logged among the elite ranks as challengers traded positions below the king.
Between them, the 8 tracked armies fired 2.2M engagements across the day. The single hottest hour belonged to nytimes, who detonated 158.9K engagements in the 01:00 UTC hour alone.
In sheer volume, nytimes was the loudest army of the day with 72% of tracked engagement, ahead of NHLFollowTrack (15%) and IceMetrix (6%).
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FINAL STANDINGS OF THE DAY
covering the 8 elite armies tracked hour-by-hour · 24 hours observed · signals by LunarCrush 🌗