Elo and Ranks
What is Elo Rating?
MCSR Ranked has an Elo Rating system, much like chess, to rank players by how skilled they are at speedrunning. Elo is used for matchmaking players of similar skill, to provide competitiveness to the speedruns. (See: Matchmaking)
Placement Matches
To determine a player’s appropriate Elo, they must complete some placement matches.
This is based on how far the player advances in each match, regardless of how fast it is, so progressing as far as possible in each placement match will allow the player to obtain their Elo rating more quickly.
How does Elo Work?
After done with placement matches, Players can increase their Elo by winning, or decrease it by losing. Depending on the elo of your opponent, you can gain or lose more elo than usual.
Redlime gains less Elo than the standard 20, since his opponent had less Elo than him.
Elo Decay
Players who are in the top 150 on the Elo Leaderboard are at risk of Elo Decay. They have a Decay timer that starts at 7.5 days. Playing a match adds 24 hours to the timer. When the Decay timer hits 0, the player loses 5 Elo every day until they play another match.
Ranks
The playerbase is separated into 6 Ranks.
| Elo | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0 ~ 599 | Coal | Lowest rank in the game. |
| 600 ~ 899 | Iron | Unlocks Ruined Portals as a seed type. |
| 900 ~ 1199 | Gold | Unlocks Snowy and Taiga Village types. |
| 1200 ~ 1499 | Emerald | Unlocks Buried Treasures as a seed type. |
| 1500 ~ 1999 | Diamond | This roughly represents the top 5% of players. |
| 2000+ | Netherite | This roughly represents the top 0.5% of players. |
They are further separated into Divisions as follows:
Seasons and Phases
On a season end, all players will become unranked and have to play placement matches to receive their new Elo.
Seasons are separated by 4 phases, each a month long. See all about the phase system here: Phase Points