Maybe at least five participants?

We can consider both five and two, if there's no problem with that. Personally, I don't care how many participants there are. Everyone who played deserves a rating because they all had equal conditions. The announcement about the start of the tournament is posted for everyone. And if you don't play, that's your problem, right? Well, let's say five. Either way, there will never be that few. There will always be more...

But I said right away today that if nothing changes with the second component, then we need to determine the number of participants for the tournament to be counted towards the rating. And before that, I thought that even two people should be counted.

Heh-heh, right away... :D This was said a couple of posts ago, and before that, the second component was questioned a dozen times throughout the discussion... :)