You understand correctly.

I think that between us, would could reach agreement on what rankings to
use for seeding.  But no-one has the power to input seeds anyway.

On 10 May 2016 at 14:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto <g...@sjeng.org> wrote:

> On 10-05-16 00:14, Erik van der Werf wrote:
> > Oh that's silly! IIRC if your bot is not ranked than users can do all
> > kind of cheating in the scoring phase (e.g., mark all your living stones
> > dead).
>
> I've not observed this behavior so far. Perhaps because in an unranked
> game there's no rating to lose anyway.
>
> I suspect that for estimating a good enough rating to seed a tournament
> it would work fine. But I understand from Nick's post that it doesn't
> matter because he can't "input" the ratings into the McMahon pairing
> software.
>
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