Correct. It's one thing to say "they ought to do x" but at the end of the day these are totally separate organizations. Basing player ranking decisions on someone else' system is a very big deal. It is a dramatic and sweeping change to the tournament. And what happens if at some point these organizations don't see eye to eye?

In my tournaments I use a combination approach to prevent sandbagging. A novice can't have a wppr rank better than 500, can't have finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd in one of our local leagues, can't have won a local wppr tourney, can't have won novice in a previous tournament and can't have finished 1st - 3rd in a major or regional tournament, such as California Extreme, Rose City, etc.

This works very well but would be unwieldy for PAPA-sized events. For one thing, who won novice at tournaments is often not tracked consistently. I know who has at my local events because I ran most of them.

IFPA cutoffs are not perfect, but if the two orgs could come to an agreement, I think it could be a step in the right direction.