A local independent TO is looking to do an invitational-style series.
From each Qualifier tournament, he needs either top 2 or (if sufficiently large) top 4, to give invites to.
There is no difference in prizes for those that win an invite - that's the prize.
They're looking at sanctioning it through WER, and are wanting to end the event midway through the play-offs; once the top 2/4 (as required has been reached).
This feels really odd to me, but I'm not sure if there's actually anything wrong with it? Can anyone confirm/deny/add input?

There's also one other potential spanner, but this is the one I'm majorly concerned about at the moment.

If we use RPTQs as anything to go by (Top 4 get invite - event ends) then there shouldn't be any problems that I can see. I don't know how this is implemented in WER though. So maybe someone else can finish this one.

Subject: Does a tournament require a winner? (Tournament Operations)
From: forum-22137-13a8@apps.magicjudges.org
To: sean_crain14@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:40:16 +0000

A local independent TO is looking to do an invitational-style
series.
From each Qualifier tournament, he needs either top 2 or
(if sufficiently large) top 4, to give invites to.
There is no
difference in prizes for those that win an invite - that's the
prize.
They're looking at sanctioning it through WER, and are
wanting to end the event midway through the play-offs; once the top
2/4 (as required has been reached).
This feels really odd
to me, but I'm not sure if there's actually anything wrong with it?
Can anyone confirm/deny/add input?

There's also one other
potential spanner, but this is the one I'm majorly concerned about at
the
moment.

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Considering your TO is already speaking to his WPN rep to get permission
for a sanctioned invitational-style series, sounds like a great opportunity
to ask all these questions. ;)

2015-10-20 23:47 GMT-04:00 Sean Crain <forum-22137-c86c@apps.magicjudges.org

Originally posted by Dominik Chlobowski:

Considering your TO is already speaking to his WPN rep to get permission
for a sanctioned invitational-style series, sounds like a great opportunity
to ask all these questions. ;)

2015-10-20 23:47 GMT-04:00 Sean Crain <forum-22137-c86c@apps.magicjudges.org

Sounds good. Thanks Dominik, I shall send him back to the WPN rep.

In WER this can be done by dropping the winners after the final round (i.e.
TOP4 or TOP8) in a same way as in case of split.

Although the tournament will still formally have a winner which will be
decided by standings after swiss portion.

2015-10-21 6:18 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <

WER allows you to end an event any time, as long as you've entered all results for the current round and haven't created the next round. If you created a new round, you can delete it in order to end and submit the event.

There is nothing wrong with doing this, so long as the structure is announced before the start of the event.