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As a A+ player, you get 5 BP for a win against a B rank, 15 - 20 BP against a B+ rank and 20 - 30 BP against A players. Lower opponents get you 1 BP. So it is possible to reach 30000 BP through constant play, but a lot of grinding is involved.

A + against A+ is the same as B against B (every same rank starting from C) you get 35 BP if your points are in within 1000 BP up to (down to) 40 BP (30BP) for every 1000BP difference, since then you have not the same rank anymore.

The highest BP you can get since you reached rank C is 65 BP (winning against someone who is two classes higher than you) and the highest number you can lose is 45 BP (losing to so. who is two classes lower than you).

Man I spent a lot of time in ranked :slight_smile:

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This is false.

Each match in sf4 has a k rating of 128, with 2060~PP being the limits of difference that it tracks. So every roughly 15 points of difference between you and your opponent is 1 more point for them to win. If you play a player outside of this range 0 will be rounded to 1, and anything over 128 will be rounded to 128.

Examples:
Joe Average has 2800PP, he plays Jane Average who has 2800PP. The winner will win 64PP and the loser will lose 64PP
Joe Average has 2800PP, he plays Josh Amazing who has 5000PP. If Joe Average wins he will get 128PP. If Josh Amazing wins he will get 1PP.

It’s a goofy fake ELO system.

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This is right, except you never get exactly 64PP. If you are within the same PP range +/- ~ 32PP (equalys ~16PP up or down) you will get 63PP

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Grand Master rank was achieved by a few players like Daigo, Tokido, Latif, Wolfkrone, Air, also a japanese viper etc… it is possible.

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Yep, all it really lacks is a taking into account the accuracy of the ranking of one player (number of matches played x lowest and highest PP obtained). I don’t really understand why they didn’t bother including it, it’s not like copying the whole algorithm from the chess federation would have cost more money.

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Grand Master can happen at 30,000 flat right after A+ in some cases. 30,000BP may also just turn you into MASTER where you would have to keep winning until you become Grand Master. the number is different for everyone. You stay Master no matter how much BP you have and as long as you are master you can become GM anytime if you were to keep winning, I guess if you go below 20000 you would turn back to A+ though. It has nothing to do with BP after 30000.

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source?

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Not impossible. Keep in mind that the scoring system will me more harsh on you now that you have rank A. You’ll get less points for winning matches and you’ll lose more points for losing matches. You’ll also face strong players more often. That’s why you fell back to 14000 from 15000, I presume.

I experienced it when I reached 5000 and then dropped back to 2500, which lowered my rank and I quickly got to 5000 again, now steadly climbing towards 10000 due to playing better. I’m guessing that once I reach 10000 I’ll fall to 5000 and then go up again.

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getting master is a waste of time or impossible in most cases unless you have a hyper offensive character like poongko or latif so most of the matches are really short

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The problem with getting to Master (as I stated before) is that there isn’t enough competition at A rank of above to gain points from at a reasonable enough rate to get there. Clearing a 10k BP gap at that high up the scale I imagine would take damn near forever even if you are one of the best players in the world.

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getting to master? good luck. i just got A+ for the second time with akuma (yes, i was downgraded to A). u get about 1-15 points per win, and about 30-40 points taken per loss so that’ll take awhile

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That has to take a lot of hours.

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I know that filipin0man achieved Grand Master a couple of months ago (on XBox Live), so it definitely can be done just by playing. A lot.

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yeah I just play ranked cuz I h8 waiting in endless lobbies

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Yeah waiting in lobbies is awful, they should have it then when u have 4 or more players multiple matches play out at the same time.

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His winrate is also ridiculous. He’s the best Rose in NA by a huge margin.

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on psn its not working at all
90% make after b rank a new acc
out of 20people 18 play on fake acc its ridicules
not much fun to play rank on psn

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isnt filipinoman a legit tourney player?

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Yes

(I don’t think anybody denied that, though?)

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As @Vulpes said, he is - his Rose is fabulous.

And that was my point - that you could reach Grand Master by being good enough (and playing enough).