The following criteria for MCR Marathon games disqualification will be added (all the measurements are in "automoves", AM, that is the moves which are made by the system due to player's disconnection):
Mahjong International League (MIL) and MahjongSoft are pleased to announce Annual MCR Marathon 2023-2024, a long-term open tournament, which starts on 01.03.2023 at 00:00 and ends on 29.02.2024 at 23:59 (UTC+3).
Marathon is opened to all players, with no restrictions with respect to participation, or the number of accounted games.
Annual MCR Marathon 2023-2024 is composed of four "seasons":
In turn, any "season" consists of three monthly periods, each starts on 1st day of the accounted month at 00:00 and ends at 23:59 (UTC+3) of the last day of the respective month.
All games played by a player within a monthly period are then consolidated using four-component formula to get player's score. All player's scores are then ranked accordingly to get rank (place) and basic rank for the considered period.
The player's seasonal result is a sum of TWO BEST basic rank values from the considered season.
The player's annual result is a sum of seasonal result values taken from each of four periods.
Comment: for details on formulas and ranking procedures please refer to MCR Marathon/Information page.
Annual MCR Marathon 2023-2024:
Each "season":
In March 2024 40 best MCR Marathon players taken from winners of "seasons" and Annual MCR Marathon 2023-2024 overall will compete in "MCR Marathon 2023-2024 Winners Duplicate Tournament" with the additional prizes from Mahjong International League (MIL). All the necessary details about such "Winners DMCR Tournament" will be provided closer to the tournament date.
Comment: organizers of Annual MCR Marathon 2023-2024 may consider some other prizes in addition to the listed above.
To enter MCR Marathon, please, enter the table marked "MCR Marathon" on the starting page. The table of results is available at Consolidated Marathon Results page (please, choose the rules and period in a drop-down menu accordingly). The table of annual results is available at Results of Annual MCR Marathon page.
The disconnected during MCR Marathon game player is replaced by the system by so-called "inert" bot, which does not have any functions except to discard freshly taken from the wall tile (hence, no declarations are possible by such inert bot). Any moves made by the system while a player is disconnected are called as "automoves", AM, that concept is then used to determine MCR Marathon game possible disqualification.
To enforce "healthy" competition, and to address disconnected players issue, the following criteria for MCR Marathon games disqualification will be applied:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Whenever MCR Marathon game is disqualified, if a player has got 80 or more AM during such disqualified game, that player receives so-called "progressive ban". The player is penalized by losing the "verified user" ("VU") status for the period equal to the previously accumulated "ban days" plus 1 day. Thus, the first ban restricts player to participate in MCR Marathon for 1 day, the second ban restricts player for 2 days, and so forth.
Comment: for players with "seemingly bad" internet connection it is adviced to restrain from playing in MCR Marathon. The way to improve may be a change of browser, playing device or even internet provider.
Deal per session: 16, Time for session: 80 min., Time for own action: 9 sec., Time for declaration: 8 sec., Additional time: 10 sec., Time for results: 10 sec.
Marathon is a long-term open tournament, usually played by periods. Marathon is opened to all players, with no restrictions with respect to participation, or the number of accounted games within a period.
The player's score within a monthly period is a weighted sum of four components: 50%*average_TP (taken for all games) + 50%*average_TP (taken for best 10 by TP games) + 0.1%*number_of_games + 10%*average_TP_opponents (against whom player played).
To be rated, 10 games have to be played by the player. While determining the player's result, all missing to the amount of 10 games will forceably be counted as having 0 TP and 0 GP.
For the sake of simplicity, all the components are rounded to the three digits after decimal point.
All players' scores within the same period are then ranked (including breaking-ties algorithms). Each player, who played the established minimum number of games (10), is called as "qualified player". Each "qualified player" receives so-called "Basic Rank" (BR) according to the formula:
BR = 1000*(number_of_qualified_players-player's_place+1)/number_of_qualified_players, rounded to the closest integer number
All players who have not played the established minimum number of games within a considered period (10), receive BR=0.
In the big-scope events like "Annual Marathon" all the "Basic Rank" (BR) values, received in individual periods, may be subject to further aggregating with or without discarding the worst player's results. The resulting number can represent "quarterly" or "annual" player's result.
The disconnected during MCR Marathon game player is replaced by the system by so-called "inert" bot, which does not have any functions except to discard freshly taken from the wall tile (hence, no declarations are possible by such inert bot). Any moves made by the system while a player is disconnected are called as "automoves", AM, that concept is then used to determine MCR Marathon game possible disqualification.
To enforce "healthy" competition any game with seemingly unequal opportunities to compete should not be counted (disqualified). Thus, any games having "excessive" number of "automoves" should be disqualified.
Disqualified MCR Marathon games:
Updated: 13.03.2023