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Worlds Grinder-How many players in each age group.

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Masters was 141 with 6 moving on

In masters there was one 8-0, Three 7-1-s and Two 6-2's that moved on ( I was 6-2 but finished 16th )
 
6 invites for 15+ in grinder was LAME AS ****

two world class players bubbled the grinder and didn't grind in to the main event, where im sure they would of done well

7th - Chung Ly
8th - Mikey Fouchet

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50+ in Juniors - 13 got in
60+ in Seniors - 7 got in
140+ in Masters - 5 got in.


I can see it happen more Masters in the grinder than in USA Nationals, when worlds is in Florida
 
Liz R 6th place in grinder played in worlds

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Last Chance Qualifier Final Results
The last players have made their way from Friday's "grinder" to Saturday’s Main Event. The Masters Division ran for 8 rounds—two more than either the Junior or Senior Divisions—and produced 5 players who will be playing for the title of World Champion this weekend. Those players are:

Matthew L. (age 15) (8-0 match record)
Danny C. (age 18) (7-1 match record)
Kunihiro A. (age 23) (7-1 match record)
Drew G. (age 20) (7-1 match record)
Takuya Y. (age 16) (6-2 match record)
Liz R. (age 43) (6-2 match record)

Masters Division
Standing Name Flight Match
Record Opponents'
Win % Opponents'
Opponents'
Win % Head
to
Head
1 Tsuguyoshi Yamato (JP) 1 6-0 66.67% 62.04%
2 Go Miyamoto (JP) 1 5-1 66.67% 61.30%
3 Steffen From (DK) 1 5-1 63.89% 62.22%
4 Takuya Yoneda (JP) 1 5-1 63.89% 59.17%
5 Austin Reed (US) 1 5-1 61.11% 58.98%
6 Jeroen Robert (BE) 1 5-1 58.33% 58.33%
7 Cristian Vidal (CL) 1 5-1 52.78% 55.00%
8 Diego Cassiraga (AR) 1 4-2 72.22% 53.70%
9 Steffen Eriksen (DK) 1 4-2 61.11% 55.56%
10 Yuki Akimura (JP) 1 4-2 61.11% 55.09%
11 Sami Sekkoum (UK) 1 4-2 61.11% 53.89%
12 Ross Cawthon (US) 1 4-2 58.33% 56.48%
13 Tom Roos (FI) 1 4-2 55.56% 53.43%
14 Alex Brosseau (US) 1 4-2 55.55% 58.98%
15 Eric Craig (US) 1 4-2 53.89% 58.17%
16 Yee Wei Chun (MY) 1 4-2 52.78% 60.09%
17 Jeffrey Young (NZ) 1 4-2 52.78% 56.57%
18 Miguel �ngel López Bernal (MX) 1 4-2 52.78% 56.57%
19 Pablo Meza (MX) 1 4-2 50.00% 55.28%
20 Tatsuya Kadowaki (JP) 1 4-2 50.00% 54.35%
21 Gino Rotondo (US) 1 4-2 44.44% 55.74%
22 Simone Soldo (IT) 1 4-2 41.67% 53.24%
23 John Kettler (US) 1 3-3 66.67% 55.09%
24 Gerardo Rojas �ngeles (MX) 1 3-3 66.67% 54.26%
25 Yuta Komatsuda (JP) 1 3-3 62.22% 52.43%
26 Jason Windham (AU) 1 3-3 62.22% 51.69%
27 Liz Reed (US) 1 3-3 55.56% 53.71%
 
Dark Weedle said:
not a chance...we could easily break 500 in masters next year at usnats
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But if you are playing for a spot in Worlds why not spend your money to go to the Worlds in your own country and get to play in a tournament just like Nationals with similar amount of invites given out and getting to be at Worlds for a similar travel price?

That's why I hadn't gone to Nationals the past 3 years before this season because it was nearly the same price to get to Worlds as it was with Nationals and Florida, Anaheim and San Diego are much better places than Columbus which I found out this year. Worlds is an absolute free event for the LCQ where you do not need a 50+ dollar badge to play Pokemon.

I think there will be very equal numbers for masters in the grinder and US Main Event because of the location of Worlds and amount of invites. 418 people gets you 4 invites. 141 gets you 5. Hawaii was the better choice to go to because it had more invites with a lesser amount of competition. Not to say that the grinder is easy but at Nationals you had to play against people who were top 12 in rankings and the eventual top 4. But grinder also had a lot of good international players in masters. So grinder may have been Quality> Quantity, it was still a crapshoot to who would get in! Going to Hawaii gave you a better luck chance by avoiding less donks.

The player cap in Masters will almost certainly be broken at Worlds 08.
 
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