The difference between a ladder and a scrim is that in a scrim you may be trying a new playbook or something and you are just calling wacky shit.
In a Ladder game I wanna win so I can move up in the ladder. Now I don't care if I lose as many people know I lose many of games, but I still wanna win ya know.
Since the ladder has opened I have played multiple scrims with people and they have not claimed it as a ladder when they smashed me even though we were both registered.
In the future I would just ask people if they wanna ladder. If you did that to me I would not be upset, but I would find it strange. You could use the same logic and not claim it as a ladder if you lost. "Oh that was a scrim" I in no way think you thought that but you know.
Ladder and Scrim are differnt things.
Love ya Shel
