When you have very few ratings, each point of coolness will give you a huge boost to your default value, but the amount of coolness required goes up after every new rating you receive. After getting 50 ratings your default will always match the amount of ratings you have despite your coolness value. The amount of coolness required to stay on the front page near 50 ratings is pretty damn high anyways. Closer to a 100 than to 50 I think.

Default Play and Rate page is sorted by the D values, which is an equation that roughly related to your Coolness rating and how many games your game has received. The lower D values show up first on your personal Play and Rate list. Additionally, any game you’ve already rated is removed from your Play and Rate list.

Guys, I get it, so I was correct, thank you very much for the answers!

This make me ask another question, isn’t this kind bad because games that are between low rated and high coolness get ignored?

I think that this system would work better with few entries, but with more than 2k entries this sounds kind unfair, those who have average coolness are basically in a “dead zone” and having to rely or on much more ratings, or other ways to promote their games. Which is ok, it would happen in a way or another, just wish wasn’t THAT important. :\

Honestly, I think its a pretty fair system, since it encourages more than minimal participation in the judging process after the event. Everyone wants to receive votes, so they vote on others peoples submissions in kind. It does favor those who start judging early, but even now the D rating ate in the high 40s, so getting to 100 coolness will make your game very visible if it has a low rating count.