So the most common way to advance from a regular arena to the 'Advanced' arenas is to fulfill 4 requirements: 14 arena wins, 20 arena fights, an advanced expert rating + an expert rating, and 17 political points.
Why would I want to go to arena 100? Well for starters, you become immortal. Death loses its sting, since you will simply lose your opportunity to train that turn and be able to fight again the next turn. That is a pretty big deal. But wait, that's not all! Training becomes easier, too. Instead of your first train being easy and the second at half chance, third at one quarter chance, etc. until it reaches a minimum, your first three trains are easy, the fourth at half chance, etc. Skill training is the same. Because of this, many managers only do a single train before advancing or graduating.
I talked about ratings last time. Arena wins and fights is straight forward. That is your record in the arena. Political points (PP's) have to do with being ranked as a challenger champion or the duelmaster. You get 2 PP's for being in the challenger champion class. You get 5 PP's for being the duelmaster.
Simple? Sort of. There are a host of other ways to graduate, but the 14 wins/20 fights/ratings/pp's is the most common. The other ways involve more fights with less ratings and less wins with more ratings and FE (this involves lots of tourney fights). All of these ways still require 17 PP's. There have been documented graduations with less than 17 PP's, but they are rare enough that I'm not convinced it isn't a bug in the program. Finally, 4 times a year, the gladiatorial commission evaluates warriors that belong in Advanced Duelmasters and manually graduates them. Nobody knows exactly what earns you a manual graduation, but the two most common things are 90-some FE or total skills well over 150. These warriors are always tourney warriors, meaning their focus is on fighting in tournaments, not in the arena. Managers who do this are experts at avoiding the 'regular' criteria, allowing their warriors to fight as long as possible in tournaments, hoping to win a tourney prize.
Seems like I should mention tourney prizes next time, assuming I am still here.
-- Pets