Welcome to Blazon Academy. I'm the leader of the agressive dorm and also an administrator as such want to explain the ranking system. You will join a dorm and you will join as rank 1 however the dorm leader (or if they can select a small team of other members to do this) will test you then you will gain a new rank anywhere from rank 1-3. Then every three months there will be a ranking tournament for all of you(within each dorm). If you choose to enter your rank will be on the line if you choose not to enter you will stay the same rank until the next tournament. Now the reason these are important is eventually we will be doing battle with other duel academies, and since we don't do the conventional dorm system we have to have a way to pick are best people so we naturally will decide that will a tournament. A tournament where each dorm will send 4 representatives to the competition to battle it out. In each dorm only the rank 3 members will go so try and reach that level.
Also there is a challenge system this is to allow players to try and get better. It works like this any player can challenge any other player. To do this post the rules and the stakes such as advanced with sidecking for 100 DP. This match is then played and the result is posted in the Duels Area. You can even stake your ranks on the match however to do this you need to be in the same dorm and have been in that dorm for at least 2 weeks. The game needs to be watched by a dorm leader, administrator, or moderator and is the only challenge you can't decline. Of course if you can't meet the stakes of another type of challenge you can't accept it either, but if someone challenges you and you could accept the stakes then you must. Each member can only have one rank switch match a month.