@Buns
This was my original idea :)
- 128 players will be invited to the 4 Grand Slams
- 64 players to the 8 Masters 1000 events
- 32 players to the 500 series events
- 16 players to the 250 series tourneys
In the beginning I thought the AWP World Tour will work similar than the tennis Tour. In the tennis, the TOP players mainly plays on the 12 major events and only a few 500 or 250 Series events only (and only their sponsor the reason why they play on them at all :D ). A TOP30 player average play only on 20-22 events per year (on the 12 major plus 8-10 smaller events).
But in our AWP World Tour, you guys, you are fanatic :D
The TOP30 players joining almost all the events so far :D
This is why I had to raise the original player numbers and use "qualification" rounds.
So now the 250 Series events are very hard in Ranking point of view. You have to win 3 games to get 45 points (in a Grand Slam you get it after 1 win, the other events need 2 wins but not 3). And if you win the event you get only 250 points (compared to 500, 1000 or 2000), and still need to win 6 games for it :O
But again, originally, these 250 Series events are for the medium players to gain some points for the Rankings, not the TOP players :D
But became to this :D
Anyway, I am open every proposals to improve the Tour.
@Pana
I am planning to improve the google sheet, and if I separate the present win-loss field then I can create a new automate calculated win% field.
Anyway, we are talking with PJ about some changes on the Tour, but now there is nothing clear yet.