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Ranked Elo ladders
Each ranked title has its own Elo ladder. Guests play; signed-in accounts keep rating.
One ladder per game
Winning GLYPH does not raise your NOVA rating. Each title is a separate skill. That keeps a racer off a chess player's board.
The update is an Elo step with a K-factor, an upset bonus when a lower rating wins, and a smaller step when a favorite wins. Read the full guide: How Elo ranking works in GLYPH Arena.
Why every match is ranked
Casual queues leak try-hards and hide the true distribution. Ranked-only play is a cleaner dataset for game theory and for human matchmaking. Guests still get a match; they just do not write the ladder.
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