[Deptheads] Qualifying Events/Tournaments

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Hi All,

We seem to be getting a few of these tournaments. I’ve seen them in Board games, Miniatures, Party games, and maybe even Collectibles and RPGs. The challenge is sometimes identifying these events properly.

Here’s the challenge, I need a term that covers these situations.

1. Qualifier events for a final Tournament
2. Multiple qualifying Tournament events that are not individually awarded, but produce winners in a final tally.

Examples from Orccon 2019
Commies! was 1.
Power Grid World Tour and Kill Team Tournament were 2.

Both require sign up and basic participation data for each listing, but no winners.
The first has a final winner event. The second just needs a final winners sheet.

I was thinking “Qualifying”. This is not a term that will be displayed in the event data for the players, but for properly identifying paperwork for Payouts and myself, since “Events” and “Tournaments” by default expect winners.

Also, I will probably have to make this an admin only setting to ensure the word Qualifier gets listed in the title of type 1 events when the new formatting is enabled.



Side note on paperwork for those running type 2 events with many slots. I have no problem with one sheet per day, provided all the scheduled times are listed in the time field on the sheet. If there is no space for all the times, consider a sheet for morning, afternoon, and evening as appropriate. Instead of checking off who was “In Game”, enter the time slot they were “in game”. If a person enters multiple slots, list them multiple times with a new time slot for each. I’ve mentioned this for constantly running demos too. The point is, we don’t need a piece of paper per event, as long as we get the information for each of the events. Some events with no winners and multiple sections are appropriate for this condensed paperwork. This is by no means a requirement, it’s just an option.

Tanya