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The United States Chess Federation uses an ELO rating system, just like the USATT. In the US chess world, there are prize money tournaments with ratings restricted sections. This presents some problems. While unrated players are generally prohibited from winning the full prize amounts in non-open sections, many players get very good without playing in sanctioned tournaments. They then deliberately play badly (sandbagging is the popular term) during their first 20 games to get a low rating, and try to hustle the system as much as they can to try and win prize money in rating restricted sections.
Rating floors can mitigate some of the repeat hustling, but it’s impossible to stop sandbagging completely.
Does the US Table Tennis scene have this problem?
Rating floors can mitigate some of the repeat hustling, but it’s impossible to stop sandbagging completely.
Does the US Table Tennis scene have this problem?