Ladder FAQ

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Entrance Eligibility

Any player with 2 completed rated games is eligible to enter any or all of the OGS ladder competitions. 3 consecutive timeouts will result in the removal of the player from the ladder competition, as will the player not being on the site for 30 days without their holiday flag set. Ladder games do not use any gamepoints.

Promotion / Relegation

All players start each ladder at the very bottom. To gain promotion in the ladder, you simply need to win the challenges that you have made to players above you. This will move you to one position above theirs in the ladder (for example, if you are 8th in the ladder, and beat 4th, you will move to 4th and the previous 4th-7th places will all move down one). Relegation happens either when you lose an incoming challenge (where you drop one place as they move above you in the ladder) or when someone below you wins a game against someone above you (and effectively "leapfrogs" your position).

Challenges

To cater for players of wide range abilities on a turn based server and the possible difficulties of working up a very long ladder timewise, the following system determines who you can challenge:

You can challenge the highest position of the following:

10 positions above your own
40% of the players above your position (e.g. if you are 70th, you could challenge 42nd - 28 positions above)
5 + your theoretical position ordered by rating (i.e. if you are the 7th best player in the ladder you could challenge 12th)

You can only challenge people when they have below the "max incoming challenges" for their position. This value is as follows:

1st and 5th: 5 challenges
6th and 10th: 4 challenges
11th and below: 3 challenges

You cannot challenge someone again within 7 days of finishing your last game against them
You may only have one active challenge per opponent
Non-subscribers can only have up to 3 outgoing challenges at any one time

Game Settings

All ladder games are rated and do not cost gamepoints

Board Size: Determined by ladder
Handicap: One even game with nigiri per challenge
Time Controls: Fischer - 7 + 1 < 7 - no time added for weekend
Scoring Rules: Japanese

Withdrawing from the ladder

You can withdraw from the ladder at any point. When doing so, all your current ladder games become standard games and start costing gamespoints, and if you rejoin the ladder you must do so from the bottom.

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