What is a provisional player?
In a players profile you can sometimes see the title provisional. In an effort to encourage competitive play, all new players to the ladder will be given 10 games of new player protection: Their rank will be simply “provisional”. Playing a game against a provisional player is worth the normal amount of points you would get if you win. If you lose against a provisonal player then you are protected, and you would only lose whatever you would lose in a normal game, but divided with 4. We use the provisonal mode to encourage competitive players and to make new players get an accurate rating faster by giving them a much higher K while they are provisional.
