Gateway Chess High School League

Conference Standings

These rules define the conference ranking:

1. Win-loss differential (wins minus losses)
2. Head-to-head result among tied teams
3. Average board points
4. Teams remain tied

For ties with more than one team, once a rule achieves separation, we revert to step 1 with the remaining teams.

Overall Standings

These rules define the overall ranking:

1. Conference ranking supersedes overall ranking, so only the top remaining team from each conference is compared
2. One subset of teams has both more wins and fewer losses than the rest
3. Average board points
4. Teams remain tied — shown as "T-" before the shared rank

Same rule as above: once a rule achieves separation, we revert to step 1 with the remaining teams. Also, once the single best team (or multiple, if we reach step 4) is determined, the next team from that conference is brought in and we revert to step 1.

Playoffs

1. Seeds 1-3 are the 3 conference winners
2. Seeds 4-6 are the 3 conference runners-up
3. The remaining seeds go to the highest-ranked remaining teams

Ties here add one more step to break a tie: a random draw. This is both for any seeded position and for deciding whether one tied team qualifies for the playoffs while another does not.

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