Rating skill levels when approving an entry
Why the skill rating matters, how to enter it correctly, the recommended range, and the tournament's mandatory-rating switch.
Updated 9/27/2026
The Clear to play screen opens when you press Approve. Above the confirm button is the team's list of athletes and a rating box for each of them.
The skill rating decides two things, and both are hard to fix later
The rating decides which category an athlete can enter, and their seeding position in the draw. Rushing a wrong number means a lopsided draw. Only rate when you genuinely have a basis for it.
Entering the rating correctly
At most two decimal places
For example 3.42. More decimals will be reported as an invalid rating.
Stay within the recommended range
The screen shows the category's «recommended rating range». Entering outside it is allowed but gets flagged «outside range».
Guests with no phone number
A player without an account gets their own label and cannot be rated — the rating is attached to an account.
Re-rating
Someone who already has a rating shows a «Re-rate» label. Entering a new number overwrites your own previous vote.
The «Require skill rating on approval» switch
It sits under Settings → Skill rating on approval, and only a senior administrator can turn it on or off. While it is REQUIRED, the «Save & approve» button stays disabled as long as anyone is unrated. Turn it off and you can approve unrated entries, while the rating boxes remain there for you to use when you want.
Conduct warnings must be read before approving
If an athlete in the team carries a conduct warning, the approval screen shows a tick box: «I have read the conduct warning and still want to approve». Without ticking it you cannot approve. This is internal organising-team information — do not screenshot it and send it outside.
The skill rating is internal data
Athletes cannot see their own rating or anyone else's, cannot see who rated them, and cannot see the change history. On the public profile they only see the social figure.
So: do not read ratings out over the PA at the venue, and do not send screenshots of the rating screen into a shared group.
Frequently asked questions
The rating I just entered was rejected with «Votes only accept…»?
The rating falls outside the allowed range of the rating scale. The scale has different floors by gender — entering below the floor is blocked.
I rated someone but their rating did not change to exactly the number I entered?
That is by design. The final rating is a filtered average of several raters, not the most recent vote. Your vote counts, but it does not decide on its own.
What are «Queue for rating» and «Re-rate» on an entry row?
Two actions for senior administrators: pushing the team's match video into the queue so the ambassador panel can rate from video, and reopening a rating round when new data exists. Organising teams normally do not need them.
If a category has no rating limit, do I still have to rate?
You still should. The rating is also used for seeding in the draw, so rating everyone makes the bracket more balanced — even when you are not using it to exclude anybody.
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