To enjoy the new 2017, we have the pleasure to make today ELO rank visible for all BGA players, and not only for Club members. Your ELO rank increases/decreases when you win/lose games on BGA, and is a really cool number to measure your skill for each game. We feel that a lot of you are very motivated by winning ELO points and trying to get to the top of the leaderboard for each game, so we chose to open it to everyone to make this service even more popular 🙂 This decision is little bit risky for us: there may be less paying members, which means less money to keep this service running. However, now that BGA is proposing a growing catalog of premium games for whom table creation can be accessed by our Club members only, we feel that it is worthy to try this. To make ELO more fair, more easy to understand and more enjoyable for beginners, we also did the following improvements :
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When you are a complete beginner at a game, your ELO is now 0 (makes more sense than 1500).
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From 1 to 100 ("Apprentice" level), you can only win ELO points (your ELO cannot decrease).
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Above 100, the former rules of ELO applies (you win/lose points when you win/lose games), except that you can never go below 100 (minimum ELO).
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To convert your old ELO into the new one, you just have to subtract 1300 (ex : 1450 before => 150 after).
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There are now 7 skills levels : Beginner (0 point), Apprentice (1-99 points), Average (100-199), Good (200-299), Strong (300-499), Expert (500-699), Master (700+).
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To learn more about these improvements, please check the FAQ in this news comment.
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We hope opening up ELO visibility will incite you to play even more on BGA, and wish you a 2017 year full of games!
ELO rank now visible from everyone!
To enjoy the new 2017, we have the pleasure to make today ELO rank visible for all BGA players, and not only for Club members.
Your ELO rank increases/decreases when you win/lose games on BGA, and is a really cool number to measure your skill for each game.
We feel that a lot of you are very motivated by winning ELO points and trying to get to the top of the leaderboard for each game, so we chose to open it to everyone to make this service even more popular
This decision is little bit risky for us: there may be less paying members, which means less money to keep this service running.
However, now that BGA is proposing a growing catalog of premium games for whom table creation can be accessed by our Club members only, we feel that it is worthy to try this.
To make ELO more fair, more easy to understand and more enjoyable for beginners, we also did the following improvements :
- When you are a complete beginner at a game, your ELO is now 0 (makes more sense than 1500).
- From 1 to 100 ("Apprentice" level), you can only win ELO points (your ELO cannot decrease).
- Above 100, the former rules of ELO applies (you win/lose points when you win/lose games), except that you can never go below 100 (minimum ELO).
- To convert your old ELO into the new one, you just have to subtract 1300 (ex : 1450 before => 150 after).
- There are now 7 skills levels : Beginner (0 point), Apprentice (1-99 points), Average (100-199), Good (200-299), Strong (300-499), Expert (500-699), Master (700+).
- To learn more about these improvements, please check the FAQ in this news comment.
We hope opening up ELO visibility will incite you to play even more on BGA, and wish you a 2017 year full of games!