State Finals Qualification Process (Venue Top 5)

[David]

Okay,
State Top 50 are removed from all venue leaderboards.
Then all top 5 venue leaderboards are re sorted.
If you are in multiple top 5's then you qualify via the venue finished the highest position, if there is a tie for position then it is sorted by highest points scored.

Does that make sense?
It's the best way to communicate it.

If by "resorting" the top 5s you mean taking people out who are in multiple... then yes?

[rcon]

If by "resorting" the top 5s you mean ...

Where is your sense of adventure? would it not be more fun to chip race them? Everyone gets 6-n (where n is your place on the leaderboard) cards, then line them up according to the highest 5 cards!

[BigPete33]

Okay,
State Top 50 are removed from all venue leaderboards.
Then all top 5 venue leaderboards are re sorted.
If you are in multiple top 5's then you qualify via the venue finished the highest position, if there is a tie for position then it is sorted by highest points scored.

Does that make sense?
It's the best way to communicate it.

It makes perfect sense and is very simple to follow.

P.S. Brice, I've moved the topic into the 'Your NPL' section. If you go to the main index page (which I'm assuming you did in order to pick a section to start a topic in), and have a look at the descriptions for each section you somehow managed to miss the following.......

YOUR NPL
Any questions or queries you have of the NPL management, please use this forum

[stevo]

I hereby change my name to Steve Johnson.

(and steal his NPL ID)

Hey, I played a boring game of poker last night to try and secure my spot, so you're not getting away with it that easy

I folded some hands I may normally have played, I can't remember how many hands I played but it wouldn't have been many, and I kept getting speculative cards too just to make the decisions that much harder. I really wanted to play tight and get as far in the points as I could without too much risk. There may have been some hands I would have played looking back seeing as I only just scraped in by 0.25 points over Stephen Crotty! That's if our points calculations are correct as the actual results haven't been posted yet.

There were a couple of folds in particular though that definitely kept me in the running for the finals spot. I folded AQo to Lee at one stage who had put a 4xBB raise in pre-flop from the button, there were about 14 runners left I reckon and I was in big blind (and short stacked) and thought he may have had high pockets and that I couldn't risk going out at that stage on a coin flip, lucky I folded as I wouldn't have hit anything and Lee turned over JJ.

Here's hoping when the offical results and qualification list comes out that I make it!

I hope Geelong aren't playing that weekend

Geelong are playing Port Adelaide when the state finals are on so don't know how I am going to manage that, come to think of it I am a Port supporter so probably better that I take a rest that week

[mr_niceguy_1979]

P.S. Brice, I've moved the topic into the 'Your NPL' section. If you go to the main index page (which I'm assuming you did in order to pick a section to start a topic in), and have a look at the descriptions for each section you somehow managed to miss the following.......

YOUR NPL
Any questions or queries you have of the NPL management, please use this forum

Thanks Pete, much clearer now that it's in super large text!

[BigPete33]

Glad I could help mate

[mr_niceguy_1979]

Glad I could help mate

BTW, I think this subject relates to 2 sections of the forum:
1) General NPL Chat: Anything to do with the NPL in general

2) Your NPL: Any questions or queries you have of the NPL management, please use this forum

Another example is this topic in General NPL Chat
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1107

My topic (like the link above) happens to be a question to NPL management but also doubles as "General NPL Chat", especially since there's 3 pages of "chat" now.

[Matty Norwood]

If by "resorting" the top 5s you mean ...

Where is your sense of adventure? would it not be more fun to chip race them? Everyone gets 6-n (where n is your place on the leaderboard) cards, then line them up according to the highest 5 cards!

lmao

[Steve]

Hi all, i'll start with the intro it's Steve Crotty here. This thread has drawn me out of the forum shadows where I have lurked for a while and into the thick of it.

Let me start by saying that I understand how the top 5 points system is applied in relation to top 50 coming out and qualifying at your best venue etc etc. The bit I'm not too keen on is when a person qualifies in the same position at 2 venues that person goes through at the venue where they scored the highest points. This is fine in principle, as long as the season lengths at the venues are the same. Take the following completely hypothetical situation

A person, let's just randomly give him the initials SG, qualifies 2nd on Thursday night at a hypothetical pub, let's call it the QA . After 2 weeks of the season the NPL night is shifted from a Thursday to a Monday. This means there is a Thursday season which runs for 2 weeks and a Monday season which runs for 8 weeks. Now say our friend SG also happens to finish 2nd in the 8 week Monday season. Going by the rules he qualifies in the season he had the highest points. But that is obviously always going to be the 8 week season regardless of SG's performances.

It is my humble opinion that in a situation where the 2 venues being compared did not have equal number of tournaments then the players highest average score should decide which venue they qualify from.

Now having said all that let me make it clear that my opinion is in no way compromised by the fact that this tiny little point is the difference between me making the states and missing out, that has absolutely nothing to do with it

What does everyone think?

PS. I still have a glimmer of hope at the Paayneham on Friday night so hopefully it won't matter!

[Garth Kay]

Now you are making things really complicated Steve.

I am thinking of making it compulsory that the reigning champ automatically qualifies anyway.

Would anyone have a problem with that?

Let it begin!