When the IPT tour started 150 players where selected based on how good you are, how early you applied, and probably who you knew.
It wasn't rocket science to pick the 150 players based on a mixture of various worldwide ranking lists, and maybe reserve a small % of the spots for IPT/KT wild cards. This has been discussed before and would have given the tour much greater creditability. This wouldn't have helped me much but it would have made sure the high ranking professionals who have dedicated their lives to acheive their success got the spots IMO they deserved. I don't recall much of a reason why this wasn't done?
The other possibility was to hold global qualifiers to select the 150 lucky ones. Why wasn't this done?
But now several months later before the tour has even started the IPT is going to launch:
a series of $2000 double elimination tour card qualifiers in the US only, and
25 double elimination qualifiers around the globe to get the players for the 50 open spots in the two biggest tournaments on the calendar.
All this before a tournament proper has even begun!
Why of why (if they couldn't simply pick the 150 best players in the world based on current rankings) didn't the IPT organise one big qualifier and take the top 150 players from it? If players dropped out/didn't turn up they could then simply go down the list!
It wasn't rocket science to pick the 150 players based on a mixture of various worldwide ranking lists, and maybe reserve a small % of the spots for IPT/KT wild cards. This has been discussed before and would have given the tour much greater creditability. This wouldn't have helped me much but it would have made sure the high ranking professionals who have dedicated their lives to acheive their success got the spots IMO they deserved. I don't recall much of a reason why this wasn't done?
The other possibility was to hold global qualifiers to select the 150 lucky ones. Why wasn't this done?
But now several months later before the tour has even started the IPT is going to launch:
a series of $2000 double elimination tour card qualifiers in the US only, and
25 double elimination qualifiers around the globe to get the players for the 50 open spots in the two biggest tournaments on the calendar.
All this before a tournament proper has even begun!
Why of why (if they couldn't simply pick the 150 best players in the world based on current rankings) didn't the IPT organise one big qualifier and take the top 150 players from it? If players dropped out/didn't turn up they could then simply go down the list!
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