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Bug in Arena points (Winter 2021 Marathon)

This game: lichess.org/IfnDjAy4 was a draw by mutual agreement (it's R+6 vs R+6). However, the Arena scored this game as a loss. I've gone through the PGN file and compared the results to what's shown in the Arena standings at this link: lichess.org/tournament/winter21 (I'm incorrectly on 103 points, position #2971). The Arena standings show +41 =7 -58, but the PGN file and my own game history both show +41 =8 -57 (i.e., the Arena scored one of my draws as a loss)

It's clear that this is the only draw (of 8 this tournament) that I didn't get the points for. The draw was not part of a streak of draws, and it was much longer than 10 moves. Can't figure out what the issue is, possibly a bug in how the system checks for whether a player should get points for the draw. Obviously, it had no bearing on the standings, but I wanted to report this for a dev/programmer to look into. Cheers and happy holidays!
Hmm you do seem to be right, this is your 47th game and it is scored as 0 in the standing
lichess.org/tournament/help?system=arena

"Draw streaks: When a player has consecutive draws in an arena, only the first draw will result in a point, or draws lasting more than 30 moves. The draw streak can only be broken by a win, not a loss or a draw."

I assume you had a draw before this game as well, and this game was drawn within 30 moves.
I lost the game before this, it wasn't part of a draw streak. If I'm reading what thijscom posted correctly, the rule is that you don't get points for a draw if... you're on a losing streak, as long as that losing streak came after a draw? That doesn't make any sense -- both from a chess standpoint and a logic standpoint.

Isn't the whole point of the draw streak rule to avoid people just Berlin-ing everything? Why should *losing* force you to have to win the next game to get any points? This basically encourages throwing games in equal positions because if it's a draw, you don't get points anyway, so why bother playing it out? Ridiculous.

Looks like there's no actual bug, but wow, that rule is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

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