King.com ranking system

[Ominous]

Hi there, I have some questions about king.com ranking system.

How do you (avoid) gaining rank?
Is it only based on amount won, or does it factor in the score of your games or the number of wins? Do you get more rank/cash from jackpot tournaments or from 3-player torunaments?

What is the relation with between rank and jackpot tournaments?
Recently it seems like I advanced and am not able to play the basic jackpot tournament in my two favorite games. (3500 rank was barrier?)
Now I only get matched with people between 3500-? or smth, worst thing is that there is just about no activity in the 24h tournaments at this level in these games.

Is there any way to win money when you get a higher rank?
Hard to get my 3 player tournaments matched... alot fewer + better participants jackpot tournaments etc.

I relize that this is alot of questions but any information or tips are welcome

[afort56]

There are only two ways I know of to actually decrease rank, and they both involve losing. In general, your rank will decrease when losing a 2-player game, when finishing 3rd in a 3-player game, etc. If you actually watch your rank closely, you should find that, on average, your rank will stay the same or increase very slightly when you come in second in a 3-player game. The fastest way to decrease rank can only be done during Royal Cups. The biggest ranking drops I have witnessed occur when you are ranked highly in a game, say 8000+ and playing in a Royal Cup and losing to a very low-ranking player, say rank 2000 or so. In reality, there is no way to meaningfully decrease rank without losing a lot of money. I'm of the opinion that the main factors in how much your rank increases are position (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc), your ranking in comparison to your opponents, and the cash won. The higher your position, the more your rank will go up, the smaller the difference in ranking between you and your opponents, the more your ranking will go up, and the more money won, the more your ranking will go up.

In terms of winning money in the higher ranks, it's very tough to do, and is probably the number one complaint of most of the high ranking players. One solution to this that high ranking players have come up with is creating Battle Challenges among other top players. For example, in the top ranks of Jungle Bubble, I used to take part in several Battle Challenges in the 25,000+ ranks with fellow players. You might try collecting the names of some of your fellow similarly-ranked players and inviting them to play in Battle Challenges. It will probably take a bit to find a group of consistent players (not everybody plays challenges). Just keep track of who does and doesn't play, and when starting a new challenge invite those who've played before, and replace those who didn't join with some new names until you have a list of regular players.