At the beginning I must to apologize you, as my post will be a bit salty. I want to speak abut a thing I encountered in the Arena. In the Tournament I played, I encountered sandbaggers, with lvl around 400-600 but playing like masters. One of them was even wining the tournament (he progressed around 300 rank points in this 2 hours), at least as long as I was tracking the event. Of course I dropped because of this situation and series of loses. What was my surprise when I was not able to join next Arena, because the system considered me as the sandbagger... Really, what a genius invented this broken system, which punishes victims instead of perpetrators?
What am I supposed to do now? I could play with some high ranked players to fast progress to my previous rank (now I'm around 150-200 below), but the system does no let me set the lower border higher than -25. I feel like in a trap, and the one thing is to slowly rebuild playing with low ranked players.
Those are two separate but related problems.
The first-- the problem of low ranked players winning arenas-- all you can do is report them and hope they get banned from future events. That problem has been around as long as arenas have been around. After hundreds of complaints, chess.com tried to reduce it by restricting players from entering events when their rating had been much higher recently.
That's what caught you. Your own rating has fallen to less than 800 after initially setting higher than 1500 only two months ago.
I am not sure what the threshold is but I would guess that you need to get your rating back above 1000.
At the beginning I must to apologize you, as my post will be a bit salty. I want to speak abut a thing I encountered in the Arena. In the Tournament I played, I encountered sandbaggers, with lvl around 400-600 but playing like masters. One of them was even wining the tournament (he progressed around 300 rank points in this 2 hours), at least as long as I was tracking the event. Of course I dropped because of this situation and series of loses. What was my surprise when I was not able to join next Arena, because the system considered me as the sandbagger... Really, what a genius invented this broken system, which punishes victims instead of perpetrators?
What am I supposed to do now? I could play with some high ranked players to fast progress to my previous rank (now I'm around 150-200 below), but the system does no let me set the lower border higher than -25. I feel like in a trap, and the one thing is to slowly rebuild playing with low ranked players.