Well like dresden said, people should only have one account.

I am sure this issue will be addressed soon, as many are still blatantly flaunting it.

Simply getting rid of the ability to delete, and/or putting a time as well as game limit on newbies (6 months or so) would help immensely.

Nick recently annouced that bannings will now be permanent, so hopefully that will help too.

However, you're forgetting that one thing everyone seems to do, you lose next to nothing to a newbie!Its the adepts you have to watch

Edited at 01:17 Thu 4/01/07 (GMT)

it's ok saying about the adepts what about the intermediates with 60-70 win% obviously not intermediate's.

there was something in another post about splitting tourny's, like 1 for intermediates & newbies, 1 for adepts, & 1 for pro's & virtuoso's, that would be fair if the tourny's were going to be ranked, but would probably be 2 much hassle with loads of seperate tourny's.

but then one of the main points of having tourneys ranked (apart from there being a "prize") is that it will make rankings a bit more meaningful since everyone will have to play everyone, just like it should be.

Remember win percentage and rank are only very loosely related!