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# Season scoring

When a season battle scores, the point tables, how a season counts your best results, voided battles, and how wins and podiums are counted.

How a season battle turns into **season points**, and which of your results make up your total. Each season's **HOW IT COUNTS** tab on its Overview shows the table and rules it uses; the tables below are the ones seasons ship with.

## When a battle scores

Your place in a season battle comes from your ROI at the bell, as in any battle. It scores points only if you traded:

* **Make at least one trade, or you score 0.** A trade is a filled order. A limit order that rests and never fills does not count, however many you place, and neither does an order you cancel before it fills.
* **An empty seat scores 0.** A battle where you were not seated — a missed check-in — scores nothing.
* **A disqualified result scores 0.**

In the battle's record, a missed seat is marked **NO-SHOW**.

### Ranking below everyone who traded

Where a season's **HOW IT COUNTS** says you "rank below everyone who traded" — Creator Cup seasons do — not trading costs more than the points:

* **In a battle,** everyone who traded is placed above everyone who did not, in the order they finished.
* **In a stage's table,** a player with at least one battle traded ranks above every player with none.
* **Seats go only to players who traded.** If fewer traded than a stage has seats, the spare seats stay empty.
* **In the final,** a finalist who did not trade cannot be champion and takes no prize.

## The point tables

A season sets one table per battle format, fixed for its whole run.

### Open Arena bands

Used for Open Arena battles — single rooms with a large field. Every battle of a Creator Cup is one, playoff arenas included. The highest band you reach is your score:

| Band      | Points |
| --------- | ------ |
| 1st       | 100    |
| 2nd       | 90     |
| 3rd       | 82     |
| 4th–10th  | 70     |
| Top 5%    | 60     |
| Top 10%   | 50     |
| Top 25%   | 35     |
| Top 50%   | 20     |
| Any trade | 10     |
| No trade  | 0      |

The places 1st to 10th count your finish in the whole field. The percentage bands count your place among the players who traded. With 1,000 entrants and 100 traders, the top 5% is the best 5 of those 100.

With 20 traders or fewer, the percentage bands add nothing: the top 50% is already inside 4th–10th, so every trader below 10th scores 10.

### Placement table

Used in seasons that play fixed-size rooms rather than Open Arena battles. Points are read off your place; for a 10-player room:

| Place  | 1   | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10 |
| ------ | --- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Points | 100 | 80 | 65 | 52 | 42 | 33 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 8  |

### Win / loss

Used for duels. There is no draw.

| Result | Points |
| ------ | ------ |
| Win    | 100    |
| Loss   | 20     |

## Which results count

A stage can count only your **best N** results. The **HOW IT COUNTS** tab states it, for example "Your best 2 of 3 count, so one missed battle is not fatal."

| Stage                        | Counts      |
| ---------------------------- | ----------- |
| Creator Cup qualifiers       | Best 2 of 3 |
| Weekly League regular season | Best 4 of 6 |
| Duel Cup qualifiers          | Best 3 of 5 |

Your results are sorted by points, best first; ties go to the better place. The top N count toward your total. The rest are **DROPPED**: they keep their points on your record but add nothing to your total. You cannot choose which results count.

A battle you missed scores nothing, so it is the first to drop. In a best 2 of 3 stage, you can miss one battle and still have two results counting.

A stage without a best N — the playoffs and the final — counts every battle.

### Each stage starts from zero

A stage's table counts only that stage's battles. Qualifier points do not carry into the playoffs: "Everyone starts from zero." Where a season has more than one scored stage before its final, the **Season** view on the **STANDINGS** tab adds them up. That total is for reference: seats are decided stage by stage.

A last-chance battle scores no points at all. Only your place in it matters.

## Voided battles

A season can void a battle: it was played, but it is withdrawn from scoring. It shows as **EXCLUDED**, counts for nobody, and does not use one of your N.

## Wins and podiums

Two tie-breaks come from your counted results only:

* A **win** is a counted battle you traded in and finished first.
* A **podium** is a counted battle you traded in and finished in the top three, ahead of at least one other player. A duel winner records one; the loser does not.

A dropped result counts toward neither, even one you won.

## Related

* [Standings and qualification](/docs/leagues-and-seasons/standings-and-qualification.md)
* [Your battles in a season](/docs/leagues-and-seasons/season-battles.md)
* [Leagues and seasons](/docs/leagues-and-seasons/leagues-and-seasons.md)