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My idea to stop boosting rating where people make tournaments and do zerk arenas

Hello Mods ! i got one idea to avoid rating boosting in zerk arenas.
people can make their own tournaments and it think the zerk option could be removed there would that be a good idea?
(only there ofcourse in the tournaments which happens every day zerk is totally fine).
since some people do zerk arenas 1min+60sec and than zerk which is earning rating in a unfair way
i think it should be avoided rating should be earned in a fair way :).
personally i don't care about my own rating btw but if one wanna get a good rating for his /her standard it should be earned.
i guess everyone can react but i'm honestly only curious what the mods think of it
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@opperwezen Hey opper , berzerk wouldn't effect one's rating , they gain the same rating and loose the same even if berserked or not. Only thing is gains gains extra tournament points. So how would removing zerk affect rating and unfair gain of rating ?
@WillBeAGrandMaster
There have been instances in the past where people make a 1+60 arena, then both players berserk all games. Now, they are effectively playing a 1/2+0 arena, but it affects their classical ratings and not their bullet ratings. This would be fine if both players were the exact same strength in classical and in bullet, but mostly this is not the case.
@BanKeyboard
Berserking a 1 + 60 will make the time 1/2 + 60 right ? and that's again rapid or classical , how would it affect bullet and how could they play 1/2 + 0 effectively by doing so ?
@BanKeyboard

Ah , i didn't know that ! i haven't played a berzerk game since a lot of months ! thx for the info and apologies for my foolishness. #1 , yeah acceptable request and ofcourse a good one too !
true #2 but i still see its as improved :)
and i see in the post not everyone get the idea :) see post nr #3
so zerk itself is a cool idea by lichess unique thing i make a lot of use of it !
but its not cool if people created their own tournaments like doing 1min +60sec and zerk and do it in every variant or timecontrol
which is def rating boosting :) since both play with 15sec+ 0sec increment and its more matter of flagging and not mastering the variants or using this for standard chess too get extra rating with a trick :).
@WillBeAGrandMaster said in #5:
> @BanKeyboard
> Berserking a 1 + 60 will make the time 1/2 + 60 right ? and that's again rapid or classical , how would it affect bullet and how could they play 1/2 + 0 effectively by doing so ?

i berserk the increment time will not be given
@opperwezen said in #8:
> true #2 but i still see its as improved :)
> and i see in the post not everyone get the idea :) see post nr #3
> so zerk itself is a cool idea by lichess unique thing i make a lot of use of it !
> but its not cool if people created their own tournaments like doing 1min +60sec and zerk and do it in every variant or timecontrol
> which is def rating boosting :) since both play with 15sec+ 0sec increment and its more matter of flagging and not mastering the variants or using this for standard chess too get extra rating with a trick :).

i understand what you are saying dude

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