Weekly Top 200 - 02/15/2013

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(02-16-2013 12:40 PM)Alan Klaus Wrote:  Up 72 spots in a week to #104. What ranking do you need for ST?

It's not fixed. I got to rank 44 and was still Masters at one point when there were around 88 Super-Titans.

Alex confirmed the following idea to be "more or less true". So I'm sure there is more to it, but the general premise seems to be sound.

Say the range for Master is 500-1200 hidden-rating. Then, to get promoted to ST from Master you need to exceed 1200 hidden-rating. However, to get demoted to Master from ST you need to dip to 800 hidden-rating. This prevents a player who just got promoted to ST at 1203 points from being immediately demoted after losing 1 game and going to 1195 (and then being promoted again after a win... and so on).

In this case, there could be many Masters AND Super-Titans in the 800-1200 range. The Super-Titans aren't low enough to be demoted (<800), but the Masters aren't high enough yet to be promoted (>1200). So instead you have some Masters who are ranked higher than Super-Titans but who have yet to be promoted.

In my case I guess that many Super-Titans had fallen enough in hidden-rating such that I was able to approach the promotion threshold and pass many Super-Titans without having reached it.