Seasons, the points race and awards
Each session night is scored like a mini-tournament. The full points ladder, the tie-break, the eligibility bar for MVP, and when a season locks.
How a night scores
Each completed club session is treated as a mini-tournament. Everyone who played that night is ranked by their win rate for the night, and that finishing position awards a fixed number of points. The season standing is the running total.
| Finishing position that night | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 10 |
| 2nd | 8 |
| 3rd | 6 |
| 4th | 5 |
| 5th | 4 |
| 6th | 3 |
| 7th | 2 |
| 8th or lower | 1 |
The rule
Nightly rank is by win rate, and point difference breaks ties. Every position past eighth scores the final step, so turning up and playing is worth a point regardless of results. Not attending scores zero — a standing cannot be defended from the sofa.
This replaced a season-long rating ladder after a review in 2026. Three things drove it: the best possible night is capped at ten points so one exceptional evening cannot decide a season, absence genuinely costs you, and "four points behind with two sessions left" is a sentence that can be read at a glance courtside.
The points race runs from season 2026-S5 onward. Earlier seasons keep the rating-based standing they were played under and are not retrospectively re-scored.
Switching a season between systems
A club can rank a season by the points race or by skill rating, and can change its mind while the season is running.
The rule
Switching re-ranks the entire season under the new system immediately — it is not applied from the switch date forward. Season awards follow whichever system the season ends on. A season that has finished is locked and cannot be switched.
The all-time club board always uses skill rating regardless of what any individual season is set to. The two are answering different questions and are never combined.
Season MVP
At the end of a season the top eligible player takes a permanent Season MVP award on their profile. Eligibility exists so the award cannot be won on a handful of well-chosen appearances.
The rule
To be eligible a player needs at least 10 games in the season, and must have attended at least 40% of the club's completed sessions that season — with a floor of 2 sessions, so a short season still has a real bar rather than a trivial one.
The season leaderboard shows eligible players ranked, with everyone else folded into a footer, so the board always answers the question it appears to be answering: who can still win this.
Early in a season nobody has met the bar yet. Rather than showing an empty board, the full active roster is ranked until the first player qualifies, and the split appears from that point.
Eligibility is assessed on the whole season, not on recent form. Someone who qualified and then stopped attending can still win it, and a past season's winner keeps the award even if they are no longer active today.
See also Attendance, activity and session historyClub management overview
Ever present
One other award sits alongside MVP: Ever present, for attending every completed session in the season.
The rule
Every qualifier wins it. There is nothing to rank and no tie to break — three people with a full house have all done the same thing.
It is deliberately the only companion award. Most improved and best win rate were both tried and dropped: because a season replays every player from the same baseline, a season's rating gain is effectively its rating, and most improved landed on the same person as MVP in every season on record. Attendance is the one axis that reliably picks someone else.