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===The Rating Game==='''Who's Rating You and How'''Every time you play in a sanctioned tournament, '''your play gets rated and tracked by Fleer.''' To dispel any rumors about some guy sitting in the corner of our office with a solar calculator adding up points and scores while inflating those of his friends and family, we'd like to tell you just how we're doing it.First, we hired '''Savanti, Inc.''' as an outside resource to do the day-to-day tracking of sanctioned tournament playing. Mike Sutton of '''Savanti''' takes it from here."Players are rated using the '''ELO System.'''" (Editor's note: '''ELO, in this context has nothing to do with the 70's synth-band 'Electric Light Orchestra.'''') "Developed by Dr. Arpad Elo for the United States Chess Federation, [ELO] is '''now used world-wide in Chess, seeding Tennis players and ranking Golfers'''. Even [Dr. Elo] admits it's not perfect (humans aren't machines), but by far it's the fairest system for rating game players.""ELO is based on all players fitting on a rating score bell-curve. The distance apart on the curve gives us the odds the highest-rated player will win, as well as the 'point swing.' The bigger the gap, the smaller the swing if the higher-rated player wins, and the greater the swing if the lower-rated player wins.""'''ELO gives the best feel for a player's real strength.''' New players quickly advance to their peak level of play --- you aren't taking years to accumulate enough points to move up a single level. Top players can battle all the top lpayers. Lower-rated players can either play other lower-rated players for an enjoyable time, or take on the 'bug guys' to move up fast!Little talk about encouraging people to play in tournaments. There are still a lot of people who are members but who still just have their original starting score. We encourage everyone --- and you have Galactus now, there's no excuse --- to '''get out and start playing in tournaments.''' If you can't find one -- '''bug your retailer''' to hold one. Tell him to '''call us for an information kit.'''===Tournament News...==='''Time to see your name in lights...'''(well, at least in ink)OverPower's Top Ten Players!''a.k.a. the inner circle''# Keith Bursak# Richard Findley# Shawn Gorzkowsk# Mike Combs# Ron Milts# Stacy Stoeckel# Tim Gustafson# Frank Yue# Courney Monson# Chuck Freeze