Rank Bar Changed Colour to Yellow?

Since you guys were so much help with my last question, I thought I'd see if you could help me with this.

I was playing quest mode, and after a fight, my rank/experience bar changed colour from green to yellow. It stayed yellow until I gained my next rank up(a few fights later) then changed back to green.

What causes this, and what are it's effects?

If it's any help, it happened during a fight where I won because my opponent gave herself a ring-out after a certain throw.

 

Thanks, but I'm sure it's not that.

This happened about 3-6 matches before a level up, and it was the actual bar that turned yellow. When I'm about to level up, it's the box surrounding the bar that turns yellow. Any otehr thoughts?

 

also, regardless of how high or low your ranking bar is, if you win or lose 5 in a row vs your same rank (5th dan vs 5th dan, or 8th vs 8th) it will automatically promote/demote you.

so say you have the tiniest sliver of ranking bar left, b/c you've been losing a lot to ranks at or near yours. then you go on a streak, and beat someone of identical rank 4 times in a row, your rank bar will change colors and next time you face a person of your rank it will be a promotion match no matter how small you're bar!!!! (or demotion, if you lost 4 in a row.)

so if you are 5th dan you could:

win vs a 5th dan four times in a row
--your bar will change colors to indicate you are one 5th dan away from ranking up, i dn't remember what color it changes to--

lose to a bunch of 4th dans and 6th dans (lowering your rank bar)

And next time you play a 5th dan IT IS STILL A PROMOTION MATCH. WOOHOO. as long as you weren't demoted in the meantime, lol.

and same thing but vice versa with losses and demotion. lol, so you can have a full red bar or at least i think it was red. been a long time since i played in the ranked circuit. i think yellow means 1 more win is promotion, and red is demotion. but not 100% sure about it.

 

Is that right?

Knowing that would make ranking up for items so much faster.

 

I once got a yellow bar after deranking a opponent and it was in the middle glowing. Afterward mynext battle would've been a auto rank up.