27th Chess.com Tournament (1001-1200) 'cheating'?

I understand that you have to have a rating between 1001 and 1200 (this includes unranked people or people who never played correspondence chess before on this site).

But .. It's kinda stupid that someone who only played live chess and is rated 1400+, yet never played a correspondence game (so being unrated, qualifies as "1200") can enter this and wipe the floor with everyone ..

Can't this be changed? I don't mind playing higher rated players and all, but in tournaments like this isn't it the idea to play against people of the same (or close to the same) rank?

Some tournaments have a "must have played 15 ranked games in correspondence to enter" .. Why doesn't the official tournaments from chess.com like the one stated in the title have this?

Sad, but i guess i'ts true?

I 100% agree with you!

Ok so these guys are talking about me (mainly cinnamonter) so lets get this cleared up for everyone. My regular games im rated at 1150 to 1300. I've never done corespondance or tournement so I guess it started me out at 1200 range. After only 6 wins it saying I'm a 1500. Clearly not accurate, I wish. So even with chess.com not manually placing people where they should be based on live games I'm not so far out of the ballpark here.

Notice how you bring this up once the game starts to take an even win for us after losing your advantage of having an extra piece. Look through the games I played so far on torunament and you can clearly see where I made big mistakes including your game. So stop complaining and make your next move please. Btw I like your name :)

So, i never said your name but thanks for putting words in my mouth ...

I'm talking in general! Because this isn't the first time and first place this happens ...

Notice how you are so defensive about this when i bring up a valid general point since you (lets take you, because you already stated this is all about you) are higher ranked in live chess then 1200.

You can clearly see, i talk in general not just you .. So stop thinking the world spins around you and look at the bigger picture here.

So stop complaining about something general, not focused solely on you and let me think about my move. It's 3 days/move, let me have my time!

Btw, thanks.

OP, I wish there was a way to stop sandbaging.

Im going to be part of the problem instead of the solution.

When I play in a real life tourney I should be stronger than the average unrated from playing so many games on chess com.

Well when you put cheating in the tittle and I'm the only one you could possibly be talking about, yeah I got all defensive.

Kaynight, you must be kidding. I will start to hate you as much as I hate 'pawnstogo'.

To answer the thread, yes, that's a little bit unfortunate. When I signed up to chess.com in 2011, I joined a tournament 1200-1400. A year later I finished second with rating 2000.

Hold on (or up?) a second. Isn't the rating range from 1000-1199?

Just ignore the OP. He is just full of the vinegar since you are beating him. 

I wouldn't call this cheating...but the OP is right there is a decided advantage these players have

These tournaments take a long time and people's rating change while they progress. I entered a chess.com tournament with a rating limit of 1800 but after three long rounds my rating is over 1900 and the rating of the people leading the tournament is over 2400.

Your own rating looks likely to break 1200 while this tournament goes on.

Doing well in a tournament would have little or no value if all your opponents were weak. So be glad of the chance to play the stronger players.

Got news for you. The winner in each bracket is typically 400+ higher than the upper limit in most every one of the chess.com tournies. They really need to have at least 20 games played before they can be allowed to join.