You're right, it shouldn't happen.Alan Burke wrote:For example, in the list to be calculated for the July 2012 list, a match is to be included which actually took place in May 2011 but was not included in the previous grading lists. The two players at the time of the match had grades of 171 (Won) and 143 (Lost). However, in the provisional results for the forthcoming July 2012 list, the two players are being calculated at their current grades of 172 (Won) and 130 (Lost). This means that the player who won the game will be losing out by 13 points whilst the player who lost the match will be gaining 1 point.
What should happen is that either the game does not get graded or, it gets retro fitted into the correct grading list.
The reason they do what they do is so that they can charge game fee. I know this as it was stated thus at the one and only meeting of the grading team that I attended.
Hopefully, with the move to universal membership such nonsense won't be countenanced in future.