whta is glicko RD
Hover over any rating to see your Glicko RD, if I recall correctly, you start from 120 or so and then as you play more games (against players around your rating), your RD goes down. The lower it is, the more accurate it is since you are more likely to have been playing serious games.
This is who would qualify based on the current leaderboard.
Alternates would be in order of morau3, flybirdsgg, iamsahab, ShintoTsukoyami, DreamConquerer, anurag_b, etc.
I'll be honest: 70 is very low of a number to maintain, especially when it is already hard to find games against players of a similar rating at this rating level. I would advocate for the RD to be raised to 75 or something similar. This doesn't affect me obviously, but several worthy candidates could find it easier to climb without farming without being held back by the RD restriction.
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Glad to hear. In my humble opinion self-partner and teams up can coexist as different championships. One is more revealing of who´s really the stronger player rather than the one with the best sidekick. The other is more interesting in regards to adding up to the team and reconciling antagonistic ideas on how to go on given positions.
teams is just 2vs2 white self partner is 1vs1 and high raiting but at low a bad teamte=GG
Can someone tell me when Round 1 is? It's not really clear from the initial post. Qualifying arenas are clear (9/16-17), as is Round 2 (9/23), but Round 1 is not given a clear date. Also, what happened to the discussion on flexible scheduling? Was anything decided towards that?
Thanks for catching this. Massive error in my original post. Qualifier Arenas should be on September 9 and 10, not 16 and 17.
Apologies for that not addressing that massive clerical error for two weeks.
Round 1 is September 16 and 17. Round 2 is initially scheduled for September 23, and a former world champion stated 23rd would not work for him, but I'm bringing to administration what would be the most fair decision and the best for the championship. We don't want to lose our greatest players but we don't want to convenience one over another either.
No decision as of this minute.
Corrections made to the original post:
"September [16-17] 9-10 00:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC: 8x 1.5-hour 2+10 Rapid 1600+ qualifier Self-Partner arenas followed by a single game between the top 2. Top 2 of each arena challenge each other in a single game and the winner of that game qualifies. Games will be rated. Players that fall below 1600 Self-Partner Blitz during the Arena can still complete the arena. Arena scoring will be 2W-1D-0L. Streak bonuses will be removed. Winners of those arenas will play the leaderboard players in Round 1 on the same day of the week and time as the arena which they qualified from (the Saturday September 9 00:00 UTC arena winner plays on Saturday September 16 00:00 UTC and so forth, their arena starting time plus seven (7) days). Winners of those arenas are not to continue playing in further qualifier arenas.
Round 1 (Bracket of 16) is a Best-of-5 single elimination. Round 1 will be played on September 16 and 17 at 00:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC depending on the choices of the Leaderboard players as well as what is lined up with which qualifier arena the player qualified from. Round 1 will be eight matches of one leaderboard player versus one arena winner."
"Those candidates will qualify for Round 1 and play in any of the September 16 and 17 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC) on a first come first serve basis. Only the top 1 will be guaranteed their first choice."
So the 8th ranked essentially get whatever time slot is left? Can you expand on what these sentences mean?
I find first come first serve awkward to be honest. From what I understand this could mean qualifying is the way to get the preferred time even if ranked top 8.
"Those candidates will qualify for Round 1 and play in any of the September 16 and 17 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC) on a first come first serve basis. Only the top 1 will be guaranteed their first choice."
So the 8th ranked essentially get whatever time slot is left? Can you expand on what these sentences mean?
I find first come first serve awkward to be honest. From what I understand this could mean qualifying is the way to get the preferred time even if ranked top 8.
You could also argue qualifying is a valid method to choose your competition as well. A lot wrong with this format.
I personally don’t think anybody would be foolish enough to risk qualification just to choose a time and/or opponent, just my take…
I personally don’t think anybody would be foolish enough to risk qualification just to choose a time and/or opponent, just my take…
Not saying anybody would do it, but there are teams players for which the risk of going through qualifiers is not very high at all.
How much elo to qualify for the Self-Partner Championship @ChessMasterGS, @LazyImp?
How much elo to qualify for the Self-Partner Championship @ChessMasterGS, @LazyImp?
If you read the post you would know lmao, I don't feel like answering it more than once
"Those candidates will qualify for Round 1 and play in any of the September 16 and 17 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC) on a first come first serve basis. Only the top 1 will be guaranteed their first choice."
So the 8th ranked essentially get whatever time slot is left? Can you expand on what these sentences mean?
I find first come first serve awkward to be honest. From what I understand this could mean qualifying is the way to get the preferred time even if ranked top 8.
Yes, Rank #1 on leaderboard will take whichever of their choices they want first, #2 can pick anything except what #1 picks, #3 can pick anything except what #1 or #2 pick, etc. True this could potentially cause #8 to pick arenas over whatever remaining time is inconvenient for them. We can always fix going forward. For now we want a smooth Round 1.
whta is glicko RD