The rating question is still pretty mystifying to me, so I don't know where DS falls on this. We struggle with knowing whom he should be playing in online settings. It's discouraging to him to be completely obliterated. Obviously he needs to avoid players over 1000, but other than that I am unclear if we should be looking for 400 and under, 600 and under, or whether these ratings are not really useful in the end. He was given a rating in the 600s after his first tournament, but he only played 4 games.