Utah Melee Awesome PR (Pear Rank)

This is the Official Melee Pear Rankings for Utah! (Please read more)

Run by awesomepear, I'll try to keep it up as best as I can. If certain things are worrying you about how I'm doing the grading, please contact me. With that said, especially right now at the start of the year, it's very fluid and both data and the rankings will be changing a lot, so be understanding please.

Tournament Attendance

Tournament attendance is something I think is very important to promote. Having a lot of players come to your tournaments is really good, and having really good players come to your tournaments makes all of the players better at the game. It also makes the value of a tournament win far greater when it's over outstanding players, as well as giving other players more opportunities to win over them. I believe it is both good for the community, good for each individual player, and healthy for the Power Rankings(not pear rankings) to have everyone, including the elite level players, attend as many tournaments as possible.

For each quarter, 5 tournaments will be required. This is less than 2 per month which I don't think is very unfair or hard to reach, and I'm still considering lowering it down to 4 tournaments consider. For the (maybe official who knows) annual ranking, 20 tournaments will be required. Same idea, just 5 multiplied by the 4 quarters.
Right now, I don't know how I should be setting up the requirements as we are only a few weeks in to the quarter/year, but hopefully as the quarter progresses it can just be clear as glass because you'll need 5 tournaments to be on by the end.


Tournament weighting for Q2

Tournaments with 30+ players and 10+ PR players will automatically have 700% weight
Tournaments with 10+ PR players will automatically have 500% weight
Tournaments with 7+ PR players and 15+ total players will automatically have 400% weight
Tournaments with 5+ PR players and 10+ total players will automatically have 200% weight
Tournaments with 3+ PR players and 10+ total players will automatically have 100% weight
Tournaments with 2 PR players and 10+ total players will automatically have 90% weight
Tournaments with 1 PR player and 10+ total players will automatically have 85% weight
Tournaments with less than 10 players of which less than half are PR will cap at 70%, and reach a minimum of 60% depending on PR attendance
Tournaments with less than 10 players but more than half of which are PR will cap at 100%, and reach a minimum of 50% depending on total players
Tournaments with less than 7 players will cap at 50%


(For the purposes of this description, PR player means that they either 1. Are currently PR in Utah, 2. Placed top 8 in the regionals from the year before, 3. Are the exception where they easily could place top 8 or be PR but are weird like fucking Josh "dugslord88". Josh is the main exception for this. This is how you can have 10+ PR players, or have something like CHC4/5 count even though BillNyeTheSamusGuy wasn't at either of them.)

The logic behind weighting tournaments:

I want to promote attendance, and I think weighting each tournament should help promote this from everyone. The bigger the tournament, the more value it should have. It, then, also means we don't have to manually decide as much on whether certain tournament results will matter more or less, such as regionals, which will be counted for as much as is possible, vs smaller locals, which could count for potentially less than half as much(and maybe even less in the future). With the added layer of control it gives, it makes the rankings hopefully show the accomplishments of each player better as they place higher in harder brackets, and means I can tune the rankings to be accurate to the eventual Power Rankings, or maybe have them be so accurate that it is used for the Power Ranking. Final note, Utah Ult has a minimum attendance requirement for a tournament to count towards PR(10 players), and while the attendance requirements are taken from their PR system, I decided that, since Utah Melee is so much smaller, it should not totally discredit smaller tournaments, and rather have them count significantly less than bigger ones.