Can USCF rating floors be obtained by winning certain tournaments?
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Aug 25, 2017
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#43
When speaking of "floors," this has no affect on current rating from what I gather, only on what section you may enter in a tournament?
For example:
If I win too much money in U2200,
Uscf or CCA will give me a 2200 floor minimum-enter rating seperate from my current uscf rating to prevent me from winning same section twice.
My USCF rating might still remain below 2200 though.
Is that the correct conclusion?
Aug 25, 2017
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#44
A USCF rating floor means your actual rating will never drop below that.
CCA floors are for prize and section qualification.
Aug 29, 2017
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#45
yeah but CCA actually gives out USCF rating floors
For example Bryan Weisz has a USCF floor of 2000 because he won the U2000 section of a CCA tournament once
Aug 29, 2017
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#46
HashtagFlawless wrote:
yeah but CCA actually gives out USCF rating floors
For example Bryan Weisz has a USCF floor of 2000 because he won the U2000 section of a CCA tournament once
CCA can't give USCF floors. However, if a player wins a large enough prize in a class section, in any tournament, the USCF can assign a minimum floor that will make that player ineligible to qualify for that section in the future.
Oct 24, 2017
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#47
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Yes, a player can get a floor by winning a certain amount of money in a tourney. I would have to look up the actual regulation for the amount to be sure.
The amount is $2000 now
Sandbaggers versus Rating Inflation?
Yeah, I'd rather issue floors. Good call USCF.
Dec 31, 2018
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#51
All I learned was that I NEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD to win 2000 dollars in a U2500 tournament
In that tournamnet isn't $4,000 like 5th place or something?
The Millionaire Chess Tournaments created a big mess for the USCF. Typically, the large prizes were for first or second place, and the winners' ratings usually increased enough to place them in the next section. Not the case with Millionaire Chess and it's large prize fund.
In addition to the sandbagging, the <1600 MC2 section (the lowest section) was pretty chaotic. For example, the <1400 prize was more than $2000 (the threshold at the time), but as the prize winner was playing in the <1600 section, his floor was initially raised to 1600. It was later adjusted to 1400. I think that when the dust settled, they only implemented the policy for the first four or five places (I guess that they didn't think that it was right to assign a 1600 floor to a 1300+ player who finished down in the pack and won slightly more than $2000).
Since the rating floor is a policy matter rather than a rule, the USCF can exercise discretion in determining a player's rating floor.