Oakland, CA
I'm not sure whether I understand the rules relating to whether qualifying rounds count towards the TGP or not, can you clarify for me?
"The TGP for events that include a qualifying portion with a set amount of attempts, or limited amount of attempts will add an additional 4% to the total TGP for each meaningful game played. A meaningful game is based on the data used to advance a player through the qualifying process....The games played in the qualifying portion of the tournament can be added to the TGP calculation only if that qualifying portion reduces the field of participants by 50% or more. For tournaments where less than 50% of the field is removed in the qualifying process, the IFPA considers this 'seeding' and will not increase the TGP."
Do games played in a qualifying round count if they are used to sort players into divisions for the remainder of the event? For example, if I had a 40 player tournament and used a qualifying round to break people into A and B divisions, with players in A division competing for spots 1-20 based on their performance the rest of the day and players in B division competing for spots 21-40 based on their performance the rest of the day, how would that be considered? It eliminates half the field from eligibility to win the tournament, but not from the competition entirely. So are those meaningful games or would that be considered seeding?
