Hello!
I searched in the forums, but couldn't find the exact point that I am asking about. Apologies if I missed the topic.
Alright, my question is: if I berserk in a 3+0 Arena, I get 90 seconds. This makes it technically a bullet time control.
Shouldn't the game affect my bullet rating then? I feel this is much more logical, but I see the problems that it might bring.
If the opponent does not beserk, you would need to adjust different ratings out of one game.
My take is that adjusting the Blitz rating does lower the rating of frequent Arena players as berserking is a good strategy in tournaments, but it will change the 'wrong' rating. For example yesterday I berserked 38 games in a 3+0 and had a reasonable tournament result, but lost about 50 rating points in Blitz. Don't get we wrong: I am not complaining about it, I am just saying that my blitz rating is now substantially lower, and it was not due to a performance in Blitz, but in Bullet! Therefore if I play in a regular 3+0 rated game, I am not fairly rated from my opponent's point of view. This current way of rating the berserked games leads to Blitz ratings being lower for regular 'Beserkers' in Arenas.
Any thoughts?
I searched in the forums, but couldn't find the exact point that I am asking about. Apologies if I missed the topic.
Alright, my question is: if I berserk in a 3+0 Arena, I get 90 seconds. This makes it technically a bullet time control.
Shouldn't the game affect my bullet rating then? I feel this is much more logical, but I see the problems that it might bring.
If the opponent does not beserk, you would need to adjust different ratings out of one game.
My take is that adjusting the Blitz rating does lower the rating of frequent Arena players as berserking is a good strategy in tournaments, but it will change the 'wrong' rating. For example yesterday I berserked 38 games in a 3+0 and had a reasonable tournament result, but lost about 50 rating points in Blitz. Don't get we wrong: I am not complaining about it, I am just saying that my blitz rating is now substantially lower, and it was not due to a performance in Blitz, but in Bullet! Therefore if I play in a regular 3+0 rated game, I am not fairly rated from my opponent's point of view. This current way of rating the berserked games leads to Blitz ratings being lower for regular 'Beserkers' in Arenas.
Any thoughts?