User blog comment:B214/Volume 22 spoilers/@comment-27083298-20161115021134/@comment-29963364-20161116055134

I think that the Rating Game is set up so that even if you lose the match, as long as you played better than your opponent, you can get a better score.

And a person's ranking in the Rating Game seems to depend on the overall score they have.

In vol.18 (or 19?), Ravel stated this:


 * Rizer's score: around 1,500.


 * Diehauser's score: 35,000+.

Also, I think in the World Rating Game Tournament, the teams who make it past the prelims will be the ones with the highest scores out of the hundreds of teams who entered. So even if you lost most of your games, if you play really well, and get good reviews, you'll earn enough overall points to qualify to advance in the tournament.