Rank goes down after win

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Here’s a thread with a collection of threads inside all started with the same topic. Enjoy!

won, and rating fell

Hello, there is several threads about this topic already. here for example: Problems in rank? Short answer (unless your case is somehow different) is: rating is recalculated after each game, but more than the last game (actually 15 games or one month worth of games if less) is taken into account so most probably what happened is in some of those previous games you beat someone who then dropped severely in rank. In which case you still get points for the victory, but after next recalculation …