Everyone plays in the same group for qualifying on Friday and Saturday. Then, for finals on Sunday, the top 16 out of the entire qualifying field advance to open playoffs. Everyone else's rank after qualifying is listed as their rank for IFPA results.

Then, the next 6 highest qualifying players who are eligible for casual division (don't have a ranking X high, have never won a full WPPR event, some other rules I can't remember) advance to the casual division finals on Sunday, which has cash prizes and award plaques but no IFPA value. They also draw at random two other players from the list of eligible players, who also get to participate in the finals. The top seed in casual division finals last year finished 28th overall in qualifying.

Yeah, it's great. Less experienced players have something achievable to shoot for while also getting an opportunity to compete with the big kids. I want to say 500 for the cutoff, but I'm not 100% on that.