joining a tournament with a lower rating

Hello

I am not sure it is my problem only, but I really can't cope with people who join tournaments whose rating gap is really outside their ranking.

It happens all the time, in a tournament where, let's say, the rating is 1300-1500, asomeone joins with a 1460 rating and after a few days he's alreay 1700-ish.

Where's the fun in that? Can we have a system to "flag" people who do this so that tournament host can reject their applications when someone accumulates 2-3 of these flags?

It may sound lame but this really bugs me

Andrea

A tournament director can ease the problem by changing the default five games completed to a higher number, up to 255 games completed. The players who register are more likely to be reliably rated.

http://www.chess.com/tournament/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly5

thanks, great answer.

Noticeably, in the tournament you linked, 3 of the top 5 positions are taken by people above the rating "window".

One of them is more than 150 points above the 1550, which is hardly just a fluctuation....

Anyway thank you for the answer :)

I still think we should be able to "flag" players according to their misbehaviours

Surely it is vulnerable to abuses, but Admin would have too much work on this.

As time passes, players tend to improve. Here the advancing players have "cooperated" by not improving.

http://www.chess.com/tournament/match-play-three-day-time-test2