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Ranked seating is the fullest version of On the Table. Instead of voting for a pile of games and then racing everyone else for a seat, you put the games you’d play in order and WR-Games sits you down for you. You’ll know you’re at a ranked event because the middle tab says Rankings instead of Up for vote, and the vote pills are gone from the game cards.
Ranked seating is the host’s choice, and it needs both voting and tables switched on. Plenty of events won’t use it. If you’re looking at a vote pill, you’re on a regular voting event and seats work first come, first served.

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Ranking is voting

There’s no separate vote and rank. Ranking a game backs it automatically. You can vote for a game without ranking it, and that’s a real state, not a mistake. It shows as voted, not ranked and it means “I’m interested, but don’t sit me here.” Only ranked games get you a seat.

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Putting your games in order

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Open the Rankings tab

Every game on the list is there. Ranked ones sit at the top in your order, with everything else below a Not ranked divider.
2

Press Rank on anything you'd play

It goes to the bottom of your list. You don’t have to decide where it belongs on the first tap.
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Shuffle with the arrows

Every ranked row has an up and a down arrow. Move things until the order is right. It saves as you go, no confirm button.
Rank as many or as few as you want. One game is fine if you only care about one.
Pressing down on your last-place game takes it off your ranking entirely. The row drops below the divider and the numbers renumber, so you’ll see it happen.
Your ranking is yours. Nobody else can see what you put where, not even the host. Vote counts are public, rankings are not.

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How you get a seat

When somebody opens a table for a game, WR-Games fills it before anyone gets the chance to press Join. It works down the people who ranked that game, best rank first, and ties break by who ranked it earlier. Only people RSVP’d as Going are considered, and it won’t seat anyone who’s already got a seat somewhere.
Whoever creates a table can hold back a few seats for people they’re bringing. Held seats are skipped by automatic seating, but they’re not locked. Anyone can still join into one manually.
You get a notification when this happens: You got a seat at Wingspan, naming whichever game it was.

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Moving up

Here’s the part that makes ranking worth doing. Your ranking doesn’t expire after the first round. It stands. If a seat opens at a game you ranked higher than the one you’re sitting at, you get moved up. It happens whenever seats free up, whenever a table gets bigger, and whenever you change your own ranking. You’ll get a notification reading Your seat moved to Brass: Birmingham, naming the new game and telling you which table you left. What it won’t do:
  • Move you off a game you joined manually. If you chose that seat yourself, it’s yours.
  • Move a table’s lead. They’re running the game.
  • Take a seat somebody held back.
The result is that everyone ends up at the best game they ranked that had room, and nobody’s stuck at a fourth choice while their first choice has an empty chair.

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Leaving a seat

Leaving a seat also drops your rank for that game. That’s on purpose, because otherwise you’d be put straight back in it. You’ll get asked to confirm before it happens, and there’s no undo. Your vote for the game survives, and you can rank it again whenever you like.
If you unrank a game you’re currently sitting at, you’ll get a choice rather than a silent outcome:
  • Leave the table gives up the seat and clears the rank.
  • Stay at the table keeps the seat and takes you out of automatic seating until you leave it.
Dismissing the dialog does nothing at all, which is deliberate. A stray tap shouldn’t cost you a seat.

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If you stop going

Changing your RSVP away from Going clears your votes and your ranking for that event, permanently. Coming back to Going doesn’t bring them back, you’d rank again from scratch. Any seats you were holding are released so somebody else can move up.

On the Table

The basics: bringing games, requesting, voting, and tables.

Bringing List (Hosts)

Switching ranked voting on and what it changes for you as host.

Notifications

Where seat notifications turn up and how to manage them.

RSVP & Waitlist

Why staying Going matters for your ranking.
Ranked a game and didn’t end up where you expected? Contact us and we’ll take a look.