South Africa rankings

Who is actually strong in South Africa, and against whom. 43 players from South Africa have an Elo rating from official Riftbound tournaments, alongside how hard the field each of them faced really was. Players need at least 5 events to appear.

43Ranked players
1,741Best rating
ZASouth Africa

South Africa top 43

#	Player	Rating	Field	vs top 5%	Events	Record
1	MunchMobCT ZA	1741±38▼7	151224 entr.	—	2586 games	57–13–1666%
2	NuggetsNeverDie ZA	1659±38▲10	150424 entr.	0%0–1	2384 games	51–21–1261%
3	5inbad ZA	1640±61▲1	151224 entr.	33%1–2	1033 games	21–10–264%
4	IrithyllDrake ZA	1636±41▲10	150824 entr.	20%1–4	2075 games	41–19–1555%
5	Weather Report ZA	1625±38▲51	150525 entr.	33%1–2	2484 games	44–27–1352%
6	RishLFC ZA	1610±82▲57	150430 entr.	0%0–1	518 games	9–4–550%
7	MeatstickZA ZA	1606±46▼9	151026 entr.	0%0–1	1657 games	33–14–1058%
8	KissMyAxe1996 ZA	1603±46	150924 entr.	80%4–1	1859 games	33–15–1156%
9	I LOVE FEMBOYZ ZA	1597±43▲25	150125 entr.	100%1–0	1767 games	32–25–1048%
10	4c656f6e ZA	1587±65▲6	150722 entr.	0%0–2	929 games	16–7–655%
11	I LOVE BEER ZA	1577±41▲40	150024 entr.	0%0–3	1872 games	33–25–1446%
12	backward2 ZA	1572±73▼1	151627 entr.	0%0–1	723 games	14–7–261%
13	PsychoticPanda ZA	1568±43▲55	150224 entr.	25%1–3	1566 games	30–28–845%
14	MeatstickZA ZA	1561±117	150818 entr.	—	510 games	5–2–350%
15	Gunner1979za ZA	1552±61	150425 entr.	0%0–2	1446 games	20–13–1343%
16	Ctrl Alt Defeat ZA	1551±90▲4	151325 entr.	—	515 games	6–2–740%
17	Lemon Toyz ZA	1538±66▲13	151721 entr.	0%0–3	928 games	13–11–446%
18	Rekian ZA	1537±46	150322 entr.	0%0–4	1663 games	26–24–1341%
19	ScarletBV ZA	1526±70▼62	151426 entr.	—	625 games	13–9–352%
20	KFCSUPERFAN ZA	1509±47▲17	150524 entr.	0%0–4	1655 games	21–18–1638%
21	WiedieJ ZA	1501±67▼8	151122 entr.	0%0–2	927 games	12–13–244%
22	nogal ZA	1499±117	149423 entr.	—	510 games	3–3–430%
23	Pheonixx ZA ZA	1487±52▼30	151122 entr.	—	1245 games	19–22–442%
24	RecoillZa ZA	1473±76▲5	151026 entr.	0%0–1	721 games	8–10–338%
25	I LOVE GAMBLING ZA	1471±42▲6	149725 entr.	0%0–2	1970 games	25–33–1236%
26	zethlord ZA	1463±42▲50	150525 entr.	50%1–1	1769 games	25–38–636%
27	Progentius ZA	1457±42▼16	150225 entr.	0%0–2	2169 games	24–30–1535%
28	WhereisEp2 ZA	1455±76	150326 entr.	0%0–1	621 games	5–9–724%
29	2008 Sony PSP ZA	1452±42▲37	150226 entr.	0%0–2	2068 games	19–30–1928%
30	CapeAfro ZA	1452±62▼1	151224 entr.	0%0–2	1031 games	9–15–729%
31	Arena Man ZA	1451±77	149426 entr.	0%0–1	621 games	6–11–429%
32	Tatum09Nika ZA	1447±61	149825 entr.	0%0–2	1246 games	14–19–1330%
33	corejj3 ZA	1447±65	149224 entr.	20%1–4	1039 games	13–18–833%
34	I LOVE GEAR ZA	1446±44▼2	149824 entr.	100%1–0	1864 games	21–26–1733%
35	CyberR0gue ZA	1443±47▲27	149926 entr.	—	1656 games	16–23–1729%
36	Bard ZA	1441±74▲26	150131 entr.	—	622 games	7–11–432%
37	Sen Gen ZA	1438±43▲1	150625 entr.	0%0–3	1967 games	19–34–1428%
38	DayHaan ZA	1434±41▼9	150225 entr.	—	2173 games	23–29–2132%
39	NOOTS ZA	1425±52▼23	150127 entr.	0%0–1	1145 games	12–20–1327%
40	Bruh ZA	1410±84▼23	151622 entr.	—	617 games	3–9–518%
41	I LOVE PISS ZA	1404±51▲9	149823 entr.	—	1547 games	11–26–1023%
42	I LOVE GWAAIS ZA	1385±74	149623 entr.	—	729 games	3–15–1110%
43	SloDaz ZA	1364±44▼21	150925 entr.	0%0–2	2163 games	14–33–1622%

What the Field column means

Two columns Elo alone cannot give you. Field is the average rating of the opponents a player actually faced, with how many entrants their events had on average: the same score can be built grinding eight-player events against unrated opposition, or playing 200-player regionals. When the field stays around 1500 or events run under 16 entrants, the number is flagged. vs top 5% answers the same question match by match: how many they won against the 2,503 players rated above 1700. The gap is stark — some sit at 59%, others with a higher Elo sit at 30%. Computing these takes the full entry list of every event plus a rating system: sites that start from decklists cannot.

What the ± next to the rating means

It is the uncertainty of our estimate, and it has two causes. The first is statistical: with few matches the number is a guess, with hundreds it is a measurement — the standard error goes from ±60 at thirty matches to ±13 at seven hundred. The second is time: a player's real strength changes, so a rating that has not moved in six months is worth less than yesterday's, even with the same number of matches. The two add in quadrature. A wide margin on someone with many matches means they have not played in a long time. It is not Glicko-2's RD — we use Elo, and this is the error of our own estimate, which is what we can honestly say.

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What this number is worth

A higher rating is not a promise. Across our history the player favoured by Elo wins 60.7% of matches, and the Brier score is 0.235 against the 0.25 a coin flip would get: the signal is real, but modest. It is there to size up a field, not to call a tournament. Ratings start from a common value and move only on official matches recorded by UVS Games, so players with few events stay near the average by construction.

Ratings recomputed on 2026-09-02 05:41. The calculation runs twice a day on public standings from UVS Games events: between runs the scores do not change. How we compute the ranking →