ASR League / Promotion Rules

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This is a temporary page which usagi plans to meld with the november ranking tournament page next month.


I just wanted to be clear about how promotions and demotions are going to be done this month, so that there is absolutely no confusion. I'll use the notation A1 to denote the top scoring person in A class, and A12 to denote the 12th highest scoring person, in this case, the person with the lowest score.

Right now, the rooms look like this:

 A Room: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, A12
 B Room: b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10, b11, b12
 C Room: C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, C11, C12
 D Room: D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8, D9, D10, D11, D12
 E Room: E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14

The normal promotion rule means that the four lowest scorers in each room are demoted while the top four are promoted; the top four in A get to feel shiny, while the bottom four (or six, perhaps) in E room are demoted. Barring of course if I decide to increase all rooms to 14 people, in which the top six are promoted, while the bottom four are demoted. This means the table for the next month would look like this:

 A Room: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, b1, b2, b3, b4
 B Room: A9, A10, A11, A12, b5, b6, b7, b8, C1, C2, C3, C4
 C Room: b9, b10, b11, b12, C5, C6, C7, C8, D1, D2, D3, D4
 D Room: C9, C10, C11, C12, D5, D6, D7, D8, E1, E2, E3, E4
 E Room: D9, D10, D11, D12, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14

There is actually nothing wrong with doing things this way, even for next month. But I think that as we're really just getting started, and so many strong players are interspaced in the lower rooms, things should be pushed along a little. Enter the double promotion rule. Under the double promotion rule, the top two highest scoring players from each room are promoted twice, and the lowest two scoring players are demoted twice. Then the normal promotion rules take effect. Note that the top two in B and the bottom two in D cannot skip up or down, so the rule is not used for those situations, and 2 people end up remaining in B and 2 people end up remaining in D. This will create a table which looks like this:

 A Room: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, b1, b2, b3, b4, C1, C2
 B Room: A7, A8, A9, A10, b5, b6, C3, C4, C5, C6, D1, D2
 C Room: A11, A12, b7, b8, b9, b10, D3, D4, D5, D6, E1, E2
 D Room: b11, b12, C7, C8, C9, C10, D7, D8, E3, E4, E5, E6
 E Room: C11, C12, D9, D10, D11, D12, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14

At this point the remaining members of E class who did not promote will be replaced with players on the waiting list in order of who scored lowest in E-class. Then, pairings for December will have been completed.


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