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EA's ladder reset is two months overdue. Ours resets every month.
A new account starts at rating 1500 with an RD (rating deviation) of 350 — the system has no idea how good you are yet, so any single game could swing your rating wildly. Your Points are calculated as Rating − 2.0 × RD, which right now puts you at 1500 − 700 = 800 Points. Brand-new accounts sit at the bottom of the board even at a default 1500 rating, because the system isn't confident enough to give them credit yet.
Play 10 games and your RD typically drops to around 100. Now Points = 1500 − 200 = 1,300, and you're on the board. Keep playing and RD bottoms out around 60 for the most active players — same rating then gives you 1,380 Points. The longer you play, the closer your Points get to your actual rating.
Stop playing for a few months and your RD drifts back up. Your underlying rating stays the same, but your Points drop. A few games brings it back down. Nothing permanent.
M3-Power-E36 climbed from rank 6 to rank 2 over 12 games with an 11-1 record and a 5-game win streak, but the same player dropped from rank 4 to rank 6 across 8 games at 5-3. Flamehead beat M3-Power-E36 on Canyon, and G00fer took M3-Power-E36 on North By Northwest. Greezdemboth is riding a 7-game win streak, while RealDeal3670 is stuck in a 6-game loss streak.
M3-Power-E36 posted an 11-1 window record to climb 4 places into rank 2, gaining 10 rating points over 12 games and holding a 5-game win streak. The same name also fell 2 ranks to rank 6 across a separate 8-game stretch at 5-3, dropping 28 rating. Flamehead, now rank 19, beat M3-Power-E36 on Canyon in 6m 25s. G00fer, rank 12, took M3-Power-E36 on North By Northwest in 4m 37s. Greezdemboth at rank 279 is riding a 7-game win streak. RealDeal3670, rank 295, is on a 6-game loss streak after going 1-10 over 11 games. VonDammm climbed 30 places to rank 79 with a 4-game win streak, posting 15 wins across 21 games. The longest match of the window was ws808 over KRHRE on Canyon at 43m 19s.