Need advice? - Post your replay!

[PhilAvery]

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it works something like this:

After your rank goes high enough (for promotions) or low enough (for demotions) it 'tests' your skill level for the next X number of matches (unsure how many matches X is...). In your case, in that X number of matches, you must have lost enough games to get demoted. It doesn't matter what the order of the results were, only how many wins/losses there were in them matches. You don't get promoted/demoted until the 'skill testing' matches are finished. You'll know when it's looking to promote/demote you, because it will match you against opponents of a similar hidden rank, and they will be in the league that you might be moving too (in other words you were probably playing matches against gifted players, even though you were a master league player).

And breath...