If someone is **disabled/banned mid-contest for cheating**, why are they still treated as a normal rated participant in the rating calculation?↵
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Keeping them in the standings **directly distorts Elo/seed math**: everyone below them gets an artificially worse place, expected ranks shift, and deltas become “wrong by construction.” This defeats the whole point of having ratings reflect fair competition.↵
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**Request**: when CF disables a user for contest cheating (especially during/soon after the round), **immediately exclude them from rated calculations for that contest**.↵
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Keeping them in the standings **directly distorts Elo/seed math**: everyone below them gets an artificially worse place, expected ranks shift, and deltas become “wrong by construction.” This defeats the whole point of having ratings reflect fair competition.↵
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**Request**: when CF disables a user for contest cheating (especially during/soon after the round), **immediately exclude them from rated calculations for that contest**.↵
