Year Points Rules

INTRODUCTION

In order to make the Master Point system more realistic and dynamic, it is suggested that events other than those organized by the WBF be also entitled to award Master Points.
The awarding of WBF Year Points for an event can only be done on the agreement of the WBF.

These Year Points are awarded to the individual players in the form of a physical certificate by the organising body (not the WBF). The certificate must contain the player’s name, country, the event, date of event, and Year Points awarded.

IMPORTANT

It is the player's duty to maintain his/her record in the form of physical certificates. These Certificates and the year points they represent are valid for one calendar year from the date of the tournament for which they were awarded.

When a player has sufficient WYP to be converted to at least 10 WMP (at the current conversion rate this is 100 WYP) then the player will send the original certificates to the WBF Master Point Secretary (currently Mark Newton) where the WBF MP's will be recorded, the certificates will be marked and then returned to the player. Only valid un-expired certificates will be considered for conversion to MPs.

DEFINITIONS

	The Master Points awarded in competitions organized by the WBF are called WMP (WBF Master Points)
	The Master Points awarded in other competitions are called WYP (WBF Year Points).

At the end of a year’s competition, a ranking will be established that will take into account both the WMP and WYP. This will make it possible to designate the “Champion of the year” and to award prizes to the highest ranked players. At the beginning of the following year, the WYP will be converted into WMP, using a conversion table, and will be added to the WMP held by each player.

WYP TOURNAMENT RULES

a. Criteria of eligibility:

1)	The competition level.
	To determine the level of an event, the average of the highest ranked WMP holders will be calculated; namely,
	The five top teams in a team-of- four event The top 15 players in a pairs tournament The top 30 players in an individual. The average must not be lower than 500.

2)	The minimum number of participants:
	5 terms in a team-of- four event 15 pairs in a pairs tournament 30 players in an individual

b. WYP Table

2)	The winner of the event will receive a number of WYP equal to the tournament average (see 1a above) (rounded off to the closest 100). To this will be added a percentage based on the total number of boards played:
	from 201 to 300 boards = 5% from 301 to 400 boards = 10% from 401 to 500 boards = 15% from 501 to 600 boards = 20% over 600 boards = 25%
	The number of WYP awarded to the winner will not exceed 2000.

c. Conversion of WYP into WMP.

10% of WYP will become WMP.

d. Special Regulation.

All the WYP tournaments will be Open events, and the Women’s WMP will be taken into account when calculating the averages.

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