Leagues

How does it work to ascend in a league?  Is it by winning games or simply by playing. I am a very low skill player but am going up in leagues. 

You have to win or draw to get points.

www.chess.com/leagues

Thank you 

I've left the leagues but if I remember correctly, once the time runs out you'll be automatically moved into the higher league assuming that you finish high enough. Good job 😀

I was a part of the league when I first became a member but I have no interest in leaderboards.

I don't want to go too far off topic so I'll make it brief, I take a different view as an older FPS player, I've had possibly hundreds of games ruined by cheaters and of those games a leaderboard was involved. I have more respect for the players that are trying to get better yet might fail time and time again than I ever will for a cheater, I prefer just to play and not be part of some leaderboard.