Six criteria, every performance.
Every performance is judged on six criteria, each scored 0–100 and weighted. The weights shift by style — traditional events reward foundation, open events reward difficulty.
Judged for the style.
Traditional events prize foundation — clean technique, power, and a rooted base carry the most weight.
Open events open the door to difficulty and composition, rewarding what a competitor dares to attempt.
From judges to a final score.
Rank and rating aren't the same.
Your belt tier
Set by your school — beginner, intermediate, advanced. The tournament never changes it. Rank is how you're grouped for a fair division.
Your tournament rating.
A skill number from 0–100 — everyone starts at 50. After each round it adjusts by how you placed against same-rank competitors: beat someone stronger and you gain more; an upset is rewarded. Your first three rounds move fastest, then steady.
you move by K × (result − expected)
# seed 50 · K 8 for 3 rounds, then 4 · capped 0–100
Your dueling rating.
A separate rating — everyone starts at 1200. Each duel, the community vote picks the winner, whose rating rises by exactly what the loser's falls. Beat a higher-rated opponent and you gain more. It's zero-sum, so the whole pool stays balanced.
The same rating system trusted by world chess and pro sports.
winner + K × (1 − expected) · loser − the same
# seed 1200 · K 32 — classic chess Elo
What carries the season.
Standings come from your best five of nine rounds, by placement — computed independently of your rating. They're what carry you toward the semi-finals and Grand Finale.
The weights and rating settings shown here are the current season's configuration, and may be tuned between seasons to keep competition fair. Scores are computed on our servers from the judges' inputs — never on a competitor's device.