Hey,
GW's decided to revamp their Circuit Points system:
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Clearly Set Tournament Circuit Points Values
There was a bit of confusion about how many points could be earned at
each event. This year it is very clear. The Games Day Tournaments have
a reduced Tournament Circuit Points value as they are typically
smaller events (fewer games and a smaller field) with the added
distractions of Games Day itself. We will see how this system goes for
2008.
No Bonus Points for Other Awards
We had one or two situations last year where players won 3rd Overall
and (by the GW system of "more awards to more people") were therefore
ineligible to win the Best Painted (or Best Sportsman) prize that then
went to the player that had won 4th place. Because of the Bonus
Points, the 4th placed player received more Tournament Circuit Points
than the 3rd placed player. We thought that was pretty strange and so
this year we are not awarding any bonus Circuit points for Best
Painted, Best General, Best Sportsman and the like. Please note, these
types of awards will still be presented at events, they just won't
earn bonus Tournament Circuit Points. The fact that most the
independently run tournaments have all manner of their own special
awards only adds to the confusion, so we definitely think removing
them from the Circuit scoring system is the right thing to do.
At the end of the event, players will receive Tournament Circuit
Points based on how they finished overall at the event. There are two
standard sets of points that are available at the events on the
Circuit for 2008. They are as follows:
Tournament A Point Scale
Place Points
1st 300
2nd 280
3rd 270
4th 260
5th 250
6th 240
7th 230
8th 220
9th 210
10th 200
11-20 150
21-50 100
51st+ 50
Tournament B Point Scale
Place Points
1st 200
2nd 190
3rd 180
4th 170
5th 160
6th 150
7th 140
8th 130
9th 120
10th 110
11-20 100
21st+ 50
Points Cap
This is primarily a response to requests from dozens of last year's
participants, including many of those who attended all of the events
on the Circuit. We agree that players shouldn't have to attend upwards
of a dozen events to have a chance at winning the Tournament Circuit.
As a result, we have decided to only count the top THREE Circuit
scores for each player when calculating the final Circuit standings.
This way more hobbyists will have a chance at reaching the top
grouping and we suspect the players who jet around to lots of
tournaments will still perform very well. This will also mean that
more of your precious hobby dollars can be spent supporting your local
hobby store rather than being handed over to hotel chains and
airlines!
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