FIDE Ratings

Recently, I saw a forum asking about FIDE, so I am gonna make this forum for people who want to know about this stuff.

There are three types of FIDE tournaments. They are sstandard, rapid and blitz. You have separate ratings in all of them. To get one of those ratings, say standard, you would have to join at least one standard FIDE rated tournament, and play nine FIDE rated players. You must win one game, to get a rating, and your performance out of all the nine games, decides your rating. Three months later, your rating is shown on the FIDE website, along with your FIDE ID. You will need that ID for future tournaments. Same applies for rapid and blitz. I hope this answers your questions. Feel free to comment.

I have a specific question about my progress in getting a rating. I played a tournament in march of 2012, played 3 FIDE games (2200,1750,1650) and lost all 3 sadly. I played a second tournament over 2 years after (april 2014) and got 4/5 with players ranging frm 1500-1750. I have a fide id from the first tournament and the 3 block game is there, i wanted to know if those games are counted to the total count (9 required games) or if they are disregarded due to time lapse/ 0 score?

I would think they all still count. You did play them & but haven't completed 9 games yet. You're 4 out of 8 with an estimated rating around 1700. 

What say ye masses, who concurs?