Board Game Arena

Yeah ELO changes too much. You can tell from the badges on my profile that my ELO has been over 300 and in the top 20 on the site in the past. I've finished in the top 10 on the arena in three of the past five seasons. Now I'm down to 198 ELO, and it was actually lower for most of the past couple of...

I will agree that it's not great to treat it as a tie between all the non-quitting players when someone quits early. Someone with a high ELO playing against people with lower ELO will see their ELO go down in this circumstance even though the game was not allowed to finish. Perhaps it would be faire...

I know it's just an anecdote, but the last two Arena games I joined, we had to boot a player because they failed to make their first move in time. It's super frustrating when that happens, moreso when it took so long to get a table together in the first place. I feel like if the matching was faster ...

Changing the defaults is a reasonable thing to test. Please let us change our own preferences away from the defaults if we'd rather play a game sooner than wait for someone on the same level of the ladder. I actually like playing against people in different levels (especially against people on highe...

I got up to Elite level in four games last season. This season I started in Gold level for three of them, and Silver level for the fourth. How is the starting level determined?