bruce_brakel
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I'm planning on running a non-traditional format tournament next summer. Here and now I'm practicing explaining the format. I'm trying to develop a concise explanation that tells you what you need to know. Tell me if this explains it to you:
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We are discarding the traditional PDGA format where we would have ten to fourteen divisions dividing players up by age, gender and skill. Instead, we will take the entire registered field and sort it by ratings. For trophies and payout, the top fifth (or first quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the top fifth. The second fifth (or second quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the second fifth, and so on. The trophy-only pre-registration fee is $10. If you want to get in on the quintile payout, bring $20 or $40 to the tournament and you can pay in for that at the tournament.
Because this will not fit into a PDGA TD report, for purposes of competing for PDGA points, only, all pros will play Open and all Ams will play Advanced.
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I'm thinking I'll start with that much on the website our players read, and then fill in some details when they ask questions. If I tell you that much, do you understand what is going on without your head starting to spin? This assumes that your head was not spinning before you started reading.
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We are discarding the traditional PDGA format where we would have ten to fourteen divisions dividing players up by age, gender and skill. Instead, we will take the entire registered field and sort it by ratings. For trophies and payout, the top fifth (or first quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the top fifth. The second fifth (or second quintile) of the players will compete against everyone in the second fifth, and so on. The trophy-only pre-registration fee is $10. If you want to get in on the quintile payout, bring $20 or $40 to the tournament and you can pay in for that at the tournament.
Because this will not fit into a PDGA TD report, for purposes of competing for PDGA points, only, all pros will play Open and all Ams will play Advanced.
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I'm thinking I'll start with that much on the website our players read, and then fill in some details when they ask questions. If I tell you that much, do you understand what is going on without your head starting to spin? This assumes that your head was not spinning before you started reading.