Blast Corps Promotions

(# Bronze + # Silver*2 + # Gold*3) / 12 = Blast Corps Promotion (sort of)

It gets a little more complicated as the game progresses, but the formula stays the same. Let’s look at the promotion sequence using just Golds and Platinums. For our purposes, any combination of Silver and Bronze Medals that add up to 3 points will be considered a Gold. There are 53 Earth levels (this includes the moon), but the 21 carrier levels have an "extra" Gold medal if you clear a path in time for the carrier for a total of 74 Gold Medals before the four planets will open up..

You are a Rookie Wrecker until you have four Gold Medals (or 12 Bronze or 6 Silver). After that, your promotions are as follows: G = Gold Medals P = Platinum Medals
Promotional Status and Title	Medals
1) Trained Crusher	4G
2) Experienced Ravager	8G
3) Decorated Damager	12G
4) Professional Razer	16G
5) Expert Destroyer	20G
6) Gifted Ruiner	24G
7) Accomplished Conqueror	28G
8) Master Despoiler	32G
9) Demolition Fanatic	36G
10) Grand Eradicator	40G
11) Heavy Duty Waster	44G
12) Total Pulveriser	48G
13) Champion Ransacker	52G
14) Mechanical Maestro	56G
15) Chief Oblilterator	60G
16) Commanding Desolator	64G
17) Supreme Devastator	68G
18) Ultimate Annihilator	72G
You should have found all six scientists by now. You can earn a total of 74 Gold Medals for the earth levels (including the moon). Then the four planets: Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Neptune are opened up.
19) Leveling Legend	76G
When you get to 78 Gold Medals, you go for time on the 21 Missile Carrier Levels. Things get a little messy, because you lose the 21 Gold Medals that you earned on the Missile Carrier Levels just for clearing the path and you lose 21 more Gold Medals that you earned just for finishing the levels with 100% Buildings, Surviors, and RDUs. You’re left with 36 Gold Medals. Now, the 21 Missile Carrier levels are based on speed instead of simple completion.
20) Destructive Psychopath	38G
21) Mindless Desecrator	42G
22) Hysterical Claustrophobe	46G
23) Uncontrollable Madman	50G
24) World Class Megalomaniac	54G
When you have 57 Gold Medals, you can be awarded Platinum Medals. Each Platinum Medal you earn will reduce your Gold Medal count by one. It now takes 12 Platinum Medals to be promoted to the next rank, instead of just 4 Gold Medals.
25) Captain of Carnage	3P 54G
26) Single Minded Chaosmonger	15P 42G
27) Grand High Slaughtermaster	27P 30G
28) Lunatic Lord of Havoc	39P 18G
29) Armageddon Adept	51P 6G
You need to earn just the last six (potentially the most difficult) Platinum Medals to get to the 30th promotion. The title of the 30th promotion could be a spoiler for you. If not knowing the title will give you a little extra motivation to complete the game... Go back to the FAQ. Otherwise... Continue.	57P 0G

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When you get the last Platinum medal, the game says,

"Good Job! You're a true psychopathic, destructive being that should never get a driver's license...
Now try again and beat each level in less than 2 seconds for Plutonium medals."

(just kidding) My sincere thanks for this ending go to Peer Schneider of Nintendojo.
Send him an email if he made you laugh.

The real ending is here.

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30) You Can Stop Now.

So, as you can see, the 30th promotion technically doesn't have a title at all. You receive your 57th Platinum medal, then the standard promotion screen comes up saying that you've had enough. There is no special video sequence when you attain this level, just the satisfaction that you have completed what many casual players consider impossible.

This is where the game actually started for me. Good thing I already have a driver's license! ; ) When the pressure of completing those last few levels in Platinum Medal time was lifted, I found I could post some decent times. My times for each Blast Corps level are listed on their respective web pages elsewhere on this site. I'll bet you can beat some of those times with a little effort.