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What is the story here? Players ranked below 1200 are restricting an open invite to those between 1700 and 2500. Is this just delusions of grandeur?

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its been happening all the time. lol one thread was taking bets on how long one of them would stay on the invite board.

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Originally posted by steerpike
What is the story here? Players ranked below 1200 are restricting an open invite to those between 1700 and 2500. Is this just delusions of grandeur?
three possible stories:

The first such challenge was I believe a joke. You are meant to laugh.

A second reason may be that should a very fine player turn up, they may not have the desire to play out X 'low-ranking' games to reach the level they believe they are at. Can't say I've too much time for that approach but it is a feasible cause for the question posted.

The third is in a form a cheat: while provisional, your score is an average of the scores of the opponents you play (adjusted by win/draw/loss). Even loosing to high ranked players will bring your provisional score right up.

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Originally posted by Toe
three possible stories:

The first such challenge was I believe a joke. You are meant to laugh.

A second reason may be that should a very fine player turn up, they may not have the desire to play out X 'low-ranking' games to reach the le ...[text shortened]... to high ranked players will bring your provisional score right up.
I'd go for joke with the current crop of high-rank only challenges. There are challenges from players who aren't provisional and are still sub-1300 so are unlikely to be elite.

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Originally posted by Acolyte
I'd go for joke with the current crop of high-rank only challenges. There are challenges from players who aren't provisional and are still sub-1300 so are unlikely to be elite.
Delusions of adequacy might be more accurate. Perhaps they hope to win by timeout?

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