losjackal
Technical Administrator
Okay, you aren't arguing for a different cutoff mechanism, just a lower bar of the current mechanism. I see.
500 is something to shoot for. The fact is, if it's looking like not enough people achieve 500, TPCi will likely be forced to lower the bar.
But on the other hand if people do travel and do get lucky and it's looking like players have self-selected themselves by rising to the challenge and meeting the 500 requirement, then the higher bar worked, fewer people go to Worlds (compared to Vancouver), and it was the right number.
Either way, the only thing to do is to start the seasons strong, see if you get lucky early, and then decide if it's worth it to keep competing to be one of the best.
If players are opting out early, then it's only going to be easier for the remaining highly competitive players to earn points and indeed achieve the 500 mark.
In short, a higher bar sucks for any individual player, because it's more difficult to assess the certainty of attaining those 500 points given the available tournaments and resources to compete in those tournaments and luck to finish well in those tournaments.
But in the end, there will be enough invitations given out one way or another to have a Worlds with around 128 masters. That is one goal of the Organized Play program.
500 is something to shoot for. The fact is, if it's looking like not enough people achieve 500, TPCi will likely be forced to lower the bar.
But on the other hand if people do travel and do get lucky and it's looking like players have self-selected themselves by rising to the challenge and meeting the 500 requirement, then the higher bar worked, fewer people go to Worlds (compared to Vancouver), and it was the right number.
Either way, the only thing to do is to start the seasons strong, see if you get lucky early, and then decide if it's worth it to keep competing to be one of the best.
If players are opting out early, then it's only going to be easier for the remaining highly competitive players to earn points and indeed achieve the 500 mark.
In short, a higher bar sucks for any individual player, because it's more difficult to assess the certainty of attaining those 500 points given the available tournaments and resources to compete in those tournaments and luck to finish well in those tournaments.
But in the end, there will be enough invitations given out one way or another to have a Worlds with around 128 masters. That is one goal of the Organized Play program.