Patent ID: 8075407

Claim:
A ranking determination system comprising a server connected to a communication network and a game machine which can transmit and receive information to and from said server through said communication network, wherein said game machine sends game results of players to said server, and said server determines a ranking of respective teams of the players who have played the game based on the game results, and wherein said server comprises: storage means for storing a ranking chart with a plurality of levels, each level containing one or more groups of a preset number of teams, each team being allocated a region for storing one or more sets of player information including a result of a game played by a player and information of the player's team; game result collecting means for acquiring said game result from the game machine with which the game has been played; player ranking determination means for comparing said game result collected by said game result collecting means with existing game results of other players within the same group containing the team of the player who has played said game to determine an in-group ranking of said player; team ranking renewing means for calculating an in-group ranking of said team of said player based on the player's ranking determined by said player ranking determination means and for renewing said in-group ranking of the team; ranking chart renewing means for renewing said in-group ranking based on said in-group ranking of the team renewed by said team ranking renewing means; team level determination means for determining at which level each team should be placed based on said ranking of the team being renewed at a preset time interval; and team group determination means for determining to which group each team should belong at the level determined by said team level determination means.