>More or less, yeah. It's also possible to get there on points, as it
>were, by winning a sufficient number of matches against people in the
>bracket just below, but that's governed by a ranking system that's as
>arcane (and as interesting) as the >Maine Principals' Association's points system> for determining who
>gets into the state high school basketball tournament, so I haven't
>bothered to get into any detail about it. It's much simpler to just
>win a bout with an established member of the rank you want to move up
>to.

Makes me wonder. If Dan is such a joke among Street Fighters, then who did he fight to get into the World Warriors?