Hi! First of all, congratulations to the winners! It was a very enriching season for me. While reading the post, I was writing my report, I checked my profile chart and discovered to my horror that the case you are mentioning corresponds to me. I spent some time looking at the chart to try to explain to myself why it looks like that. Nothing further than keeping the rating low to win an award, in fact, I have spoken out several times against such awards, because they are very manipulable.
The drop in my rating that you see in the graph started before the end of the previous season. I was checking and I started round 8 with 1703 and ended it with 1687. In the final round I started with 1629 and finished with 1619. That is, even in the tournaments I played badly and dropped points, and I don't see the logic of losing positions in the table to try to win a prize in the next tournament.
The straight line you see in the graph is shocking, but looking at the full graph, it is not the first time it happens. There is a straight line also at a low level (1680, in 2021), but then there are two more straight lines at high levels (1845 and 1818), in fact at some of the highest levels I have ever reached. I don't know whether or not the end of those straight lines coincides with the start of a tournament, but it wouldn't make sense for me to purposely keep the rating high to start a tournament. There are times when I stop playing blitz to concentrate on bullet. I'm not sure why I do that and, in fact, I didn't know until I looked at the chart today. I guess I'm embarrassed that my ranking in bullet is so much lower than my ranking in blitz. I'm just bad at bullet and there are times when I focus on trying to improve. I guess when the tournament was announced I felt the need to get back to playing at the more common tournament pace, to get back into the habit.
Well, I hope you find this explanation convincing. Cheers!
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I find it convincing and I didn´t want to blame someone. Just it looked like it, but for sure there are many reasons for it. Peace!
Thank you! Yes, the chart doesn't look good, but it never crossed my mind to start the tournament with a low ranking on purpose. I thank you for the understanding.