good explanation. its pretty important to know that your ranking pertains to a system as the ranking system is called and not what you do in the game. im pretty sure everyone in here has had a game with 20 or so kills and 5 or so deaths and loses. this of course does not help your ranking if your in team slayer. speaking of team slayer in specific, its also important to understand that your ranking is telling you how you play on a team and not your skill individually perse. again you can do terrific on your own and actually go down in rank or get 1 kill die 20 times, win the game by one and level up. i like to look at how good someone is by a combination of their exp, considering theyre not exp boosting and their skill level. we as players also take into account the K/D ratio and other things. all in all, this just makes halo 3 all the more interesting and it keeps it being the best game out there.