On MUIR, the information toggle by rankings indicates that a player is removed from the rankings if inactive for a year. What happens in a situation in which a player doesn’t play for a certain period of time, during which his/her membership expires, and the player does not renew the membership until the next event? Does expiration of membership result in removal from the rankings?
and there seems to be a loophole in that you don’t have to actually play a game – a no-show forfeit loss is good enough to stay active. ID:10207029
Most of the time a no-show forfeit loss would be removed from the crosstable. Most of the pairing programs do this automatically.
I think it might be an option in many programs, but not automatic.
This one I noted was Cassia – so not automatic there or it was opted out?
I believe SwissSys is also not automatic as I have seen many tournaments run with swiss sys with no-show forfeits in MSA/MUIR. Most TDs I know don’t think about clean up like that before submitting even if it is simple as a check box option. Furthermore, why remove it at all if it is really what happened? – perhaps if it was a communications/tech/admin issue (e.g. TD miss) then a no opponent full point bye might read better since the forfeit loss was not the players fault?
I don’t use Cassia, so I don’t know what it does when there are no-shows in the first round, I’m pretty sure both WinTD and SwissSys ask the TD if they should be removed from the crosstable, possibly defauting to ‘yes’.
If a tournament is FIDE rated then converting a no-show forfeit win/loss into a forfeit win against no opponent and an unplayed zero is problematic to do.
That’s something I didn’t know about, Jeff. Thanks.