Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-211.107.225.93-20151214153309/@comment-25876161-20151214224903

We know there is a variable that tracks performance and is used to assign levels of bot-opponents, and that there is one such variable for each series. We also know that there is such a peformance-tracking behavior in the special series, e.g. Gauntlet or Storm. From evidence last summer, I believe that there is a single, persistent variable for the special series, and that it is not reset when a new series arrives. Posting slow times late in one series slows bots in events early in the next.