Tier and Rank balancing

Declared KD no longer tells the competitive story: a player heading to EWC or WSOW and one playing evenings with friends can have the same KD. With Tier and Rank balancing, lobbies are built on each player's verified bracket.

Tier and rank: two levels

The tier is the bracket: PRO, ADVANCED, AMATEUR. The rank sits inside the tier and is first of all information to verify: TOP 250, Iridescent, Crimson, regional qualifier. Names and structure are yours: change them from the dashboard, in Overview, by picking "Tier + Rank" as the balancing mode.

Competitive strength

Each rank has a competitive strength: how much a player weighs in balancing. Lobbies are built so that the total strength of the teams is even. With the default scale PRO is worth 3, ADVANCED 2, AMATEUR 1.

Team A = PRO + AMATEUR + AMATEUR = 3 + 1 + 1 = 5. Team B = ADVANCED + ADVANCED + AMATEUR = 2 + 2 + 1 = 5. Two teams with the same strength end up in the same lobby, even if built differently.

• Equal strengths inside a tier (the default): rank is informational only, balancing is by bracket.
• Different strengths inside a tier: fine balancing, rank by rank.

The highest-rank rule

Players declare the highest rank reached in their career, not the current one. A former TOP 250 who skips a season is still a PRO and goes in the PRO lobby. NEMIX's memory never goes down on its own: a player cannot demote themselves at the next registration.

The captain's declaration

In Tier + Rank tournaments the registration form does not ask for KD. Right after confirmation, the declaration menus appear in the ticket: one per player, with "TIER — Rank" entries, and a Confirm all button at the bottom. Choices are saved as soon as they are picked: the message keeps working even after a bot restart.

If a player has already played a NEMIX tournament, their menu arrives preselected with the rank the system remembers: the captain just confirms. Confirmation can come from the captain who registered the team or from server staff.

Player memory

NEMIX remembers each player's highest rank, tied to their Discord account and Activision ID. The memory works across every server using NEMIX: if your tournament uses a custom scale, each of your ranks declares which NEMIX-scale rank it equals, and that equivalence is what travels. It follows the same highest-rank rule: it goes up with declarations, and down only with an organizer correction.

Roster changes

When a team changes (from the ticket or the dashboard), confirmed players keep their tier. New players come in as provisional and immediately get their declaration menus in the ticket, just for them. Whoever leaves the team does not lose their memory: at the next tournament their rank is still there.

Organizer checks and corrections

In the Teams panel every player has a tier selector. The yellow "⏳ Provisional — declaration missing" entry marks who has not declared yet. From here the organizer corrects a rank after verification (WSOW lists, results, profiles): it is the only way down, it updates the player's memory and stays in the history.

The Lobbies page speaks the same language: in Tier + Rank mode each team shows its Strength (with ⏳ next to provisional players) and each lobby its average strength. Balancing runs from the Discord command or the dashboard Balance button — both distribute by strength.

Players who have not declared yet

A player without a declared tier counts with the average of their declared teammates — a team is people who play together, and that is the closest number to the truth. If nobody on the team has declared, the scale average applies (2 with the default). If no team in the tournament has declared tiers, balancing uses KD as always.