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Nils T. Devine - DivineNTD Crossroads
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California State Open June 24-25 #
Update: the new ratings just came out, here are the details of my matches. I went from 395 which was adjusted to 797 and then went up to 972 (Δ577). Looks like Michael was right that if you play too much better they refactor your rating. And it looks like they use those adjusted ratings to compare players. So the under-rated players who I lost to were adjusted higher, but luckily my rating remains under 1000 for at least one more tournament (Pacific Coast Open in Santa Monica near the end of August). I'll go through this post and update it with everyone's new rating.
I played in my second tournament last weekend. This one was in Santa Monica, so I played in two events on Saturday and drove back down for another event Sunday morning. I was moderately successful, and my rank will certainly go up, but I didn't play as well as I could have. I wasn't looping, and I pulled a lot of my shots, worrying more about placement than hitting it cleanly. I also played very hot and cold, dominating one game and then getting shut out the next.
My rating going in was 395 after losing to a whole variety of players at my first tournament. For each event I'll list the people that I played along with their rank going into the tournament. The title of the event will be formatted like this: U1200, meaning "players ranked under 1200". In a week or so I'll update this post with my new ranking, as well as the new ranking of the people I played. What I learned, both from experience and from talking to people at the tournament, was that ranks under 1000 are very inaccurate. Players at that level either improve quickly or quit, and kids especially improve so fast as they learn the sport that their rank after their previous tournament doesn't mean much.
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