10% win ratio??

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Avatar of John_Russell

A  flag has come up saying I have to have a 10% win ratio to play in a tornament - what does this mean?  So far I have played 10 games on the site won 6 and lost 4 so I would have thought I could join??

Avatar of Streptomicin

lol, it is not 10% ratio, it is 10% timeout ratio. You must lose less then 10% of your games on time to be able to play tournaments. 

Avatar of mkasa

Also, the timeout ratio only considers rated Online Chess games (as opposed to Live Chess games).  I think you just need to play a few complete Online games, and there won't be any more problems.

Avatar of MM78

You are correct you must have at least a 10% win ratio, so as long as when you get to 5 completed games or more and you have not lost more than 90% you'll be fine, you have one win already so you just need to get to 5 complete games and not lose any by timing out.

you have only played 1 online, that is one day per move or longer, game so far.  You did not lose on time in that game so you have a 0% time out ratio.  It just means you mustn't over step the 1/2/3 day per move or more and lose in more than 9% of your games.

To enter tournaments you also need to have completed a minimum number of online games, you've only done one it needs to be 5 at least so this is a problem.

Avatar of Streptomicin

True, it is my bad that I did not look at his profile first. Tnx for correcting me MM78.

Avatar of John_Russell

Thanks for sorting this out everyone

Avatar of TadDude

There is a 10% win ratio restriction. The usual forum question is about the timeout ratio.

As a premium member you do not need the minimum number of rated games played to enter an official tournament. For basic members this is 5 games.

Tournament directors of member-created tournaments can change the default 10% timeout setting and the minimum games played. This information is not displayed to potential registrants and tournament directors may not mention it.

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AlanHaider wrote:

I bought premium so I can set up tournaments, but it says I need less than 10% ratio loss how can i fix it?

 

Play some more games to reduce your timeout ratio.