Initiator Ranked

The Initiator, Ranked is a planned MCM-sanctioned simulated minecraft duel tournament to take place from Februar 12–17, 2017 – after the Fresh Seconds Tournament but before The Gatekeeper. The Initiator was only open to those who had never participated in previous MCM-sanctioned tournaments but who were invited to the MCM Royale, up to a maximum of 18. It will be the first implementation of an experimental Elo-like rating system.

Format
Each participant will play 6 standard MCM duels, each duel being part of a "round" for this tournament. Players are assigned a rating that changes based on their results, and at the conclusion of the sixth round, the participant(s) with the highest rating(s) shall be crowned the victor(s). Since there are 18 participants and 6 rounds, that will total 54 duels total.

In the first round, matchups will be random. Each subsequent round, the participants will, in a random order, be matched with their nearest-rated rival that they haven't played before in the tournament.

If two players are matched with equal rating and one player wins, the winning player takes 10 off the rating of the losing player and adds it to their own. If a higher-rated player wins against a lower-rated player, the rating transfer will be less than 10: For each 5 points difference, the higher-rated player gains 1 less, down to a minimum of 1 rating total, or the lower-rated player gains 1 more, up to a maximum of 19. The formula is roughly, capped at 1 and 19.

For example, say player A with rating 125 duels player B with rating 100. If player A wins, they only take 5 rating, however if player B wins, they take 15.

Invites
Everyone who was invited to MCM Royale – with the exception of those who participated in MCTTT1, MCTTT2, the MCM Cup, the February Best Of and the Fresh Seconds Tournament – was invited. Invites were sent out on February 7, 2017.

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Rounds
Seeding for rounds will take place in the moments leading up to the round's beginning, except Round 1, which was seeded on February 7 when invites were received.

Round 3
Round 3 was originally simulated as scheduled, but there was a problem logging the results so all results were excluded. The matches were rerun early the next day before Round 4.