Tournaments / Badge-weighted seeding
The principle of BWS is that players are assigned a better seed if they have earned badges for playing tournaments in the past. ... In a set of tournaments that all use BWS, players that start at similar ranks are expected to tend toward BWS seeds that better reflect their likelihood ... Since then, it has been used in many community tournaments, and stands as one of the main seeding methods currently in use, alongside global ranks and ... Some tournaments vary their implementation of BWS by using a different seed function, but all share the same properties described above. ... Badges awarded for rank-restricted tournaments continue to affect players' BWS seeds even after their ranks are outside of those rank ranges.