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CTF max rating should be based off of the previous event rather than the previous year
According to this comment https://github.com/ctftime/ctftime.org/issues/40#issuecomment-285182142 a ctf will have a max rating of 25 points if it did not run in the last calendar year. This affected the recent UCSB iCTF. I think that this should probably be changed. It makes more sense to base it off the previous event, even if there wasn't one last year. Maybe there should be some max time between events before resetting the weight.
What if a major CTF has their event in December one year, then waits to January in the next, does it make sense to reset their points? I don't think the rating shouldn't be reset just because the calendar year doesn't match up. What happens if an event is run twice in one year?
CTFtime rating system is not ideal - even the fact that it uses dates from 01.01 to 31.12 is enough to don't take it seriously :( May be better Idea would be some kind of seasons or any other calendar. But I'm too lazy to think about it - don't think it really helps to improve something in CTF world.
