User blog comment:JustToothpick/Best Multiplayer Cars for Each Brackets/@comment-30074072-20161223083952

On MP Rating and new season reset:

I was demoted from 1706 at the end of last season to 1000 at the beginning of this current season.

I opened a support ticket, and GL was quite prompt and personable, and reset me to 1506 and restored the tickets I had used. I was impressed by their service, actually.

They called it the "demotion rule," which (at least in this case) was a 200 rating point demotion from a previous season to a new season.