{"id":4770,"date":"2017-12-28T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?page_id=4770"},"modified":"2018-07-17T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T11:28:22","slug":"new-european-master-points-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/regulations\/european-master-points\/new-european-master-points-system\/","title":{"rendered":"New European Master Points System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1256 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/EBL_News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/>The EBL has made fundamental changes to its <strong>Master Points system<\/strong>, making it better adapted to today\u2019s realities and correcting some anomalies in the previous system.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/regulations\/european-master-points\/emp-scales\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The new scales<\/strong><\/a> will apply effective January 1, 2017 with two exceptions: (1) the <strong>BAM A\/B events<\/strong> during the 1st European Winter Games 2016 and (2) <strong>all Champions\u2019 Cups<\/strong> since its inception in 2002. (1) makes a minor difference for the sake of consistency whereas (2) makes a major difference mainly because the old scale omitted specifying the EMPs from 5th place down, which has now been corrected.<br \/>\nIt is therefore recommended that participants in those events check their updated EMP totals, since some players may even have obtained a (higher) Title.<br \/>\n<strong>The main changes<\/strong> <strong>are<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u2022 Top awards in each event are fixed based on quality, rather than fluctuating with the size, of the field.<br \/>\n\u2022 Top awards are always lower in \u201crestricted\u201d categories than in the Open category of the same type of event.<br \/>\n\u2022 In several events EMPs are awarded further down in the rankings, giving more players at least some EMPs.<br \/>\n\u2022 In knockout events you are rewarded also for the stage (Quarterfinal, Semifinal, etc.) you reach, not only the final position. As an example \u2013 the EMP difference between 2nd and 3rd place is larger than that between 1st and 2nd place. In other events it is often the other way around.<br \/>\n\u2022 Several new \u201cgeneric\u201d scales have been added, for use in new types of events that may be added to the EBL tournament schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EBL has made fundamental changes to its Master Points system, making it better adapted to today\u2019s realities and correcting some anomalies in the previous system. The new scales will apply effective January 1, 2017 with two exceptions: (1) the BAM A\/B events during the 1st European Winter Games 2016 and (2) all Champions\u2019 Cups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":4463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4770","page","type-page","status-publish"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4770\/revisions\/5418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}