Kickoff Grouping
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[edit] Grouping
Explained simply, this is your World Ranking among all other players in Kick-Off. This is not simply another form of your ranking attribute (which is based purely "on the numbers"), but your actual team ability based on Championship Tournaments.
All teams with at least 50 points and a valid tactical settings (i.e. ranked) qualify. Newly qualifying teams get included in the Championship after each round.
Participants form groups, 10 teams each, and groups form a hierarchy of divisions. The division system has a pyramid shape: in the top division there is just one group (A-1); in the second rank there are three (B-1, B-2 and B-3); in the third division there are nine (C-1 through C-9), etc. Basically, this works out to each successive division having three times more groups than the last. There are as many groups and divisions as there are needed to accommodate all eligible teams.
- Nth - Your team is the "Nth" ranked team in that particular group division.
- Global X-x - Each team is ranked within a group of ten teams, which in turn is arranged hierarchically among other divisions. This reference displays where your team resides.
For example, if your profile noted you as the "9th in Global E-2", it would mean that your team places 9th out of 10 teams. Those teams are pegged second in an array of 81 others (since the "E" category consists of 81 divisions). Calculated another way, your team ranks 19th among 810 other teams in the "E" division of Kick-Off. This nomenclature is mostly for bragging rights; it's a way to view your pecking order among the thousands of other players in Kick-Off without having to view a complicated dissection of the player base.
The Group Info Table under Team/Group gives you a visual listing of this, while the Group Info Fixtures gives you a display of the championship games you have played to achieve this score.
[edit] Championship Intervals
With each group all participants meet each other twice, at home and away, so that each team plays a total of 18 matches. One match is played per day, on Monday through Friday; top group matches start at 17:00 UTC, with the next group starting a minute later.
