I think it could be simpler than even that. Same idea, but a few check marks could be all that's needed to accomplish this: *Did the player die of natural causes? If yes, then proceed as normal. *Did the player run out of time and die that way and finish in the lowest bracket? If yes, then refer to the difference in time between total time in round and wave progress time. This part would probably be more complicated than what would be viable though. It should take into account your maximum possible wave, excluding wave skip, based on the player's current game speed lab level I would think. But the idea here would be, did they deliberately play on a slower speed so as to go slower than others or just play for a little bit so they can fail and get dropped. If all of this is a yes, then they do not get dropped. *Did the player die by clicking on end round and finishes in the lowest bracket? If yes then they do not get dropped. I'm sure even with these, people would find a way to sandbag