Ranked mode

Today marks the day of the official RRA Ranked mode being released.
Anything is allowed in ranked mode as long as it complies with the newest official TCG banlist.

To make things fairer, I have made a tier list of the META decks currently, using evidence of these decks actually topping in regional’s:

Tier 1 - K=10
1. Zodiacs
2. ABC
3. Blue Eyes
4. Metalfoes – Majispectre and Kozmos

Tier 2 - K=15
1. PK Fire – Speedroid, Infernoids and Hero’s
2. Hero’s – Frogs
3. Mermails – Frogs
4. Zombie Lightsworn
5. Shaddoll Trains

Tier 3 - K=20
1. Kozmos – Fire King
2. Dark Magician
3. D/D/D
4. Barrier Statues
5. Cyber Herald
6. Star Seraph Rituals

Tier 4 - K=25
1. Qliphorts
2. Performal Magicians
3. Monarchs
4. Palezoic – Palzoic and Frogs
5. Tellarknights
6. PK Speedroid

Each tier has been assigned its own K value. But what is a K value? The K value for these decks means how much your rating will go up/down. A lower K value means you will gain less ELO points (rating) for winning and will lose more ELO points if you lose the duel, especially against a low tier deck. Therefore all the META decks have low K values.

We will be using this website to alter your ELO: http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/elo.htm
The K value will be decided using this:

40±((K1+k2)/2)
where K1 is the K for the first Deck and K2 is the K for the second deck.
It uses a ± because if the person with the higher K value wins, you do 40-((K1+k2)/2) but if a the person with a lower K value wins you do 40+((K1+k2)/2)

Each tier has its own K value:
• Tier 1 K=10

• Tier 2 K=15

• Tier 3 K=20

• Tier 4 K=25

For every other deck, the default K value will be used which is 40, unless you believe the deck deserves a different value, in which case a member of staff will review you deck and see if it deserves a lower or higher K value.
Maximum and Minimum K value after a K value has been calculated using 40±((K1+k2)/2) will be 70(max) and 10(min)
Ranked mode can only be carried out in a match, no singles and everyone starts off at 1200 ranked points. WINNER WILL TAKE A SPECIFIED AMOUNT OF THE LOSERS POINTS... BEWARE...

Rewards will be given out at the end of every season, which will be whenever a new banlist comes out. There are no other rewards, nothing for playing matches, however the rewards at the end of every season will be very big and well worth playing.

Good Luck everyone!

So uh do you want us to post when we do ranked matches or?

Lexi Belle wrote:So uh do you want us to post when we do ranked matches or?

You don't need to, but I need drace to add ELO points on everyone's profile, and have screenshots ready to confirm your win, remembering the decks both parties used.

After some tests, the K formula is a unbalanced and unhealthy for ranked mode, therefore i am changing the K formula;

K= 80± (k1-k2)
where K is the K constant for the duel, k1 is higher K value and k2 is the lower k value.

Either + or - depending on who won, if the person with the lower k value won(higher tier deck) then subtract and if the person with higher K won then add.

Also changing the K value for each tier, bringing it to t1=20, t2=20, t3=30 t4=40
Any other deck will have a K value of 60.

Sounds nice