Hello everyone and I'm glad to be here ^^

Hey, Dark, welcome to DA. I hope you like it here.

About your questions: We do have a Ranking System, basically everyone start from the bottom and work their way up to higher dorms. We have an event called "DA's League" If you could get enough points in one season you can rank-up to higher dorm, like Ra Yellow or Obelisk Blue. It's all mentioned in the guide in details.

For Dueling Courses: We have different sections if that's what you mean, each serves a different purpose. Aside from the Discussions section, there is the "Pimp my Deck", "Card Questions/Rulings Questions", also Articles and Lessons - the latter isn't that much active because we lack people with experience in writing articles, but we do publish a few once in a while.

If you'd like there is two tournaments where you can sign-up to. Nothing more sufficient in this game than playing against other players and gaining more experience.

There is Slifers-only tournaments that you can find in the Slifers Dorm. However, our other tournaments doesn't have a skill-cap, meaning you'll be dueling everyone else from all other dorms. Also, the default dueling system is Dueling Network; however, you're free to use any other dueling system you would like to use, as long as your opponent can use it too.

About contacting your opponent: Normally in a tournament each round you're paired with a person that you have to duel. You can either post in the topic Itself when you're usually online, or you could send that person a Personal message - personally I prefer the second method, it's much faster and reliable. Also, you could stick around in DA Chat and wait for your opponent to log-in.

We tend to pair you with someone that have similar time zone to yours so you two get to get your duel done without any troubles.

You're welcome.

Welcome to DA :D Do have fun here.

Welcome to the Academy.

Welcome to DA. I suggest you keep your anus covered at all times.

Hey. Don't forget me.
Welcome to the academy.