Highly worth reading through Shades twitter posts to better understand how potential points work, but in essence they:

• Are a new system in origin that determines what type of charms your Axie can use.
• Charms use is determined by point allotment and Axie class.
• Charms can cost anywhere from 1 to 5 points. 5 being more rare (or powerful).
• Pure Axies get a Potential Points bonus.
• Pure Axies are buffed by having stronger charms, but this is balanced due to having less choice of ability

ProgrammaticallyPull also posted the following relating to cheating in recent season 20:

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Protecting Competitive Integrity In Axie

During a multi-day investigation, the Community Protection team reviewed 3000 replays from highly ranked players and unveiled irrefutable evidence that match-fixing had occurred. This is strictly prohibited by Section 4 of our Terms of Service. When these players match against each other, they would purposely end the battle in a tie, resulting in a slight loss of MMR for each player.

As a result, we are taking the following actions against seven accounts and 210 Axies in those accounts.

 

Ban List

The list of players currently banned from Axie eSports can be found in the Google Sheet below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J5rUd5YrXMw92691wnUCxG8q2FtO5bPmZHjS2FFlj5A/edit?usp=sharing

 

Disciplinary Actions

The banned accounts forfeit season 20 AXS rewards. All Axies in the accounts have been banned for 999 days. Each player is Indefinitely banned from participating in Axie eSports tournaments.

 

Disciplinary Action Justification

We ban Axies and remove AXS rewards for accounts that violate our Terms to discourage anyone from participating in these activities. Our goal is to make the penalties of cheating outweigh the benefits. Similarly, we made a detailed post on January 1, 2022 issuing a final warning to all players regarding zero tolerance for any kind of match-fixing or collusion.

The industry standard in eSports is to issue indefinite bans for players cheating at the highest ranks. We believe this lengthy ban of 999 days represents how seriously we take competitive integrity.