Questions & answers

Ranking points reward finishing positions in eligible, administrator-verified knockout tournaments. Awards count for 365 days from the tournament’s end date, creating a rolling ranking alongside your skill rating.

Not every tournament awards them. A club night, a social draw or an event nobody submitted for verification is still a real tournament with real results — it just does not feed the ranking.

A tournament marked “Not a ranking event” awards no ranking points. Its matches still count toward skill ratings — every tournament does — as long as each result is eligible (guest and cross-country matches are not).

Your rating estimates playing strength from eligible rated results, accounting for opponents and rating uncertainty. It can rise or fall. A tournament’s results are applied to ratings when the organiser ends the event; live scoring does not mean ratings have already been applied.

Ranking points measure tournament achievement over a rolling 365-day window. Losing does not subtract an earlier award, but your total can fall when older results expire. The points board is global; country selection applies to the rating view.

It means an administrator has checked the tournament and confirmed it meets the standard for awarding ranking points — a real draw, recorded results, and an organiser accountable for them.

Verified events carry a tier and a multiplier, which is how a national open ends up worth more than a local one. Points are awarded once the tournament ends.

If you are signed in, your next match is waiting on the Home tab under Your matches, with its time and court. It also still appears at the top of your category's page.

The tournament's own page carries the full schedule for every category, which you can filter down to one category, one day or one name.

By matches won. When two or more are level, the tournament's tie-break rule separates them — usually the result between them, otherwise game difference or point difference across the group.

When a tie-break was needed, the group card explains exactly which rule settled it and why. If it could not be settled on court at all, the organiser draws lots and records the reason.

A walkover is a match nobody played: one side did not turn up, and the other is given the win. Retired means the match was played and then stopped part way — an injury, usually. The games played before it stopped are kept as the score, and the win goes to whoever was still standing, even if they were behind.