For anyone who doesn't understand what Pedro is saying (which was me until about a minute ago, when it clicked) ... Herman is shown at the top of Section 1 in the tourney which means that he's been valued as the highest rated player in the whole lot - higher, in fact, than Goldarrows whose rating is 2318.

As I understand the formula, a game (May last year, not in this tourney) that Herman played against Moon Knight (rated over 2100) gave him 2100 + 400 = 2500+ points towards his provisional rating. That rating will be the average of the points from his first 4 games (so he's only earned 625+ so far) but, in the absence of any further information about his playing level, the highly tentative value of 2500+ is used for the purposes of distributing the players amongst the tourney sections - and hence Herman gets top billing.

Pedro: What specifically is the objection? Herman being given top billing from just one game (perhaps none should be used until there's at least a real provisional rating)? Or perhaps the value of 2500 that the game gave him? Or do you want more games to be included before the rating is calculated? .. Or .. ?