During our analysis we’ve seen that players whose ranks are less than 25k are very difficult to adequately rank in the sense that handicaps at that level are not a reliable way of accounting for strength differences. As such, we’re now only assigning ranks to players who are strong enough to play with handicaps, which seems to equate to being about 25k and above. The only real effect of this is that when two players whose’ ranks would be less than 25k play each other, they will play without a handicap.