Tres Palapas challenge ladder

How to make a challenge

1. Check both statuses: Your computed public status controls whether you may initiate or receive a challenge. Staff owns the final official decision.
2. Pick an eligible opponent: Choose a player ranked above you in the same tier, no more than 3 ranks away. Both players must be eligible by status.
3. Make it official: A challenge becomes official only after authorized staff records it in the Challenge Ledger.
4. Defender response: The defender has 48 hours to accept. No response without a recorded monthly pass may become a forfeit.
5. Play and report: Once accepted, complete the match within 7 days and submit scores to staff for ledger verification.

Eligibility and timing

1. One active challenge: A ranked player may be involved in only one open challenge at a time, as challenger or defender.
2. Monthly pass: A defender may use one pass per calendar month without losing rank when staff records it during the acceptance window; the configured hold is 72 hours.
3. Missed deadlines: No response can become a forfeit. A missed play deadline can require a staff-determined outcome based on good-faith scheduling and the official ledger.
4. Post-result timers: A challenge winner is protected for 72 hours; the non-winner cools down for 72 hours.

Swing Partner Swap format

1. Two doubles matches: Each ranked player brings a swing partner. The ranked players remain opponents for two doubles matches, and swing partners swap between matches.
2. Challenge winner: Win both matches to win the challenge. If split, compare total games won, then total point differential; an exact tie favors the defender.
3. Rank movement: If the challenger wins, the ranked challenger and defender swap ranks. A defender win leaves ranks unchanged. Swing partners never move.

Staff-managed exceptions

1. Vacation and reinstatement: Staff manages vacation status and reinstatement requirements. Returning players may need a reinstatement match before normal activity resumes.
2. Disputes and enforcement: Authorized ladder staff resolves disputes and enforces timing, pass, forfeit, and result rules using the Challenge Ledger as the official record.

Ready

Ready to Defend

Normal ladder mode: may initiate and receive an otherwise eligible challenge.

Initiate: yes · Receive: yes

Protected

Protected

May initiate, but cannot be challenged during the post-win protection window.

Initiate: yes · Receive: no

Cooldown

Cooldown

May receive, but cannot initiate during the post-result cooldown window.

Initiate: no · Receive: yes

Locked

Locked

Already involved in an open challenge; cannot start or receive another.

Initiate: no · Receive: no

Pass Hold

Pass Hold

A monthly pass was used and ladder activity is paused for the configured hold.

Initiate: no · Receive: no

Vacation

Vacation

Temporarily unavailable for ladder challenges.

Initiate: no · Receive: no

Reinstate

Reinstate Required

Staff-managed reinstatement is required before normal ladder activity resumes.

Initiate: no · Receive: no

Inactive

Inactive

Not shown on the active public ladder and not eligible for a challenge.

Initiate: no · Receive: no