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Your first 25 games go towards establishing your BKR. Until then you have a provisional rating. Putting it simply, the rating at 25 games is the average of all your opponents plus 8 points for each win and -8 for each loss. (So choose the highest opponents that you reckon you can beat, lol).
If you like, here are two in-depth articles on the formula. It's a chess formula but is used for all games. USCF Rating System and Chess ratings. They're a bit mathematical but have a read of them and see how much sense they make.