To get points: Winning against Privates gains you 1 point. Cadets, Cutthroats, and Defenders gains you 2 points. Luitentant, Matriarch, Slayer gains you 3 points. General, Annihilator, Grand Slayer gains you 4 points. Only games offical games merit you points.
 

In an epic 45 minute long battle between veteran Dan and first time player Rafael, it was down to the wire. Raf eventually would win, but it didn't seem so in the first 15 minutes. On the first move, Raf lost his 3600 White Wizard to Dan's Pen Writer and started off with low life points. Dan got him down to under 500 very quickly, before he was even under 1000. It started to go downhill for Dan once Raf could take advantage of his Dark Mage, ressurects and other 3000+ monsters. He continaully lost monsters, and kept his life points up by some helpful cards. It was an extremely tight fought battle, until Dan's deck ran dry. Dan had 600 life points and Raf was at 250. Dan had no choice but to lose his last cards in his hand, and get dealed direct damage for 6 straight turns until his lose. The last time a Private ranked player beat Dan was back in '02, when another first-time player, Karl H. took him down from all his Yugi-Oh knowledge.