The martial arts competition hosted by the Wang Family was actually quite unregulated.
There was no fixed schedule for opponents, nor any referees. It was simply a matter of setting up a platform outside their door; whoever felt strong would go up and then face challenges from others.
You could come down from the platform after winning or losing a match.
If you won ten matches, you had to step down and wait for three others before you could continue.
Moreover, losing did not mean elimination—you could still go back up to compete, completely unaffected by any previous defeats.
In the end, the ranking data was based on the number of victories.
Therefore, under these rules, the stronger were not necessarily ranked higher than the weaker.