Introducing Fightcade's Rank Decay

Starting in October 2022 we are adding rank decay to Fightcade's ranking system. Decay will only affect players in S, A and B ranks, lower ranks won't have to worry about it.

Rank decay will be useful to prevent Camping (get a high rank, then never play ranked again) and Farming (play only versus low level players and avoid games with similar rank or higher), and will help balance the points inflation in the Elo pool, caused by alts and smurf accounts.

Players that stay too many days without playing qualifying ranked matches, will have decay set in, causing them to automatically lose a set amount of elo points each day. That doesn't mean you have to play every day: When you reach a rank with decay (S, A, B), you'll be given a number of banked days. At the end of each day if you haven't played a qualifying ranked match, your number of banked days will decrease by one. Once you run out of banked days, you’ll lose elo points instead. After you play a qualifying ranked match, you will get back all your banked days again.

Qualifying matches are finished ranked sets against opponents close to your rank. The number of Elo points you lose if you decay and the number of banked days available differs by rank:

• S Tier:
  - Banked days before Decay: 14
  - Elo points lost per day on Decay: 3
  - Qualifying match: S or A ranked players
• A Tier:
  - Banked days before Decay: 21
  - Elo points lost per day on Decay: 2
  - Qualifying match: S, A, or B ranked players
• B Tier:
  - Banked days before Decay: 28
  - Elo points lost per day on Decay: 1
  - Qualifying match: S, A, B, or C ranked players

Fightcade will show you an inactivity notification warning in the message of the day after joining a lobby when you have 7 or less banked days left:

Fightcade will also show an inactivity warning in the game's lobby when decay has already set in:

S-ranked players who decay below 1900 Elo points due to inactivity will be placed in A tier. A-ranked players who decay below 1600 Elo points due to inactivity will be placed in B tier. You will never fall below 1300 Elo points (B rank) as a result of decay.

Players who have not played a qualifying ranked match in the last 90 days will not be shown in the ranked leaderboards, this applies to all ranks.