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Cap it. Five rungs is the default here, and every published club ruleset we surveyed caps it somewhere. Uncapped ladders produce a 3.0 challenging a 4.5…
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Not on a well-run one. Upward only. Let challenges run downward and the strongest player in the band farms the bottom of the standings for safe wins…
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48 hours to respond, one to two weeks to play. That is where the surviving club rulesets landed independently, and the reason is practical: 24 hours…
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Nothing, if the ladder is built correctly. The clock expires and the challenger takes the result as a walkover, without an organizer adjudicating and…
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A rematch cooldown. Fourteen days by default. Without one, two friends at rungs 6 and 7 can play each other every three days, trade the same points back…
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