No ranks over member but you included Full member which is higher than member rank.
Ya, I also agree with nakamura12
I get bit confused by reading your thread , you should correcting your rules first.
-Have at least one merit point
Why the participant must have at least one merit? Is account with zero merit is always spammer or do bad post? So we must ignore user with zero merit? I don't think so. We all from brand new with zero point, no one account providing at least one merit points when we registered in this forum. Giving one merit for zero merit account can rank up from newbie to jr. member.
Also, why must wait for them to have merit 9, 99 or 249? Since you can feel free to give merit if that's post containing useful and good to forum / everyone