3-point Round Robins:
Groups of 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 players playing each other in matches to 3 points;
Players will form a single group, or be split into multiple groups, depending on the total number of entries as follows:
4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 players form a single group;
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 players form two equal, or nearly equal, groups;
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 or 24 players form three equal, or nearly equal groups;
and so on;
those in the side pool will be spread evenly between the groups.
Winter Grand Prix points will be awarded by position in each group.
In these sessions players' head-to-head records will be used as a positional tie break* by players with equal win totals.
Points awarded are as follows:
4 players: 1st 21 pts; 2nd 13; 3rd 8; 4th 5.
5 players: 1st 24 pts; 2nd 16; 3rd 11; 4th 8; 5th 5.
6 players: 1st 27 pts; 2nd 19; 3rd 14; 4th 11; 5th 8; 6th 5.
7 players: 1st 30 pts; 2nd 22; 3rd 17; 4th 14; 5th 11; 6th 8; 7th 5.
8 players: 1st 33 pts; 2nd 25; 3rd 20; 4th 17; 5th 14; 6th 11; 7th 8; 8th 5.
* Positional head-to-head tiebreak criteria
Where two players finish level on matches won, the result of their match decides their position.
Where more than two players finish level on matches won, the results of each of their meetings are aggregated and, where this separates the players, that decides their positions; where it doesn't separate them they are deemed to have finished equal, and share the points for those positions.
In complex situations it's possible that sub-groups of players finish level, in which case the results of their meetings are compared as a second level of tiebreak.
Example: Four players finish level on wins. When comparing their head-to-head results, two have won twice, the other two have won once. Then the result of the meeting of the first two determines their positions, just as the result of the meeting of the other two determines theirs.
The above positional criteria apply both to the WGP table, and to side pool standings.
A player's points from all events are are added together, although when more than eight events are entered, lowest scoring events are discarded.
The Winter Grand Prix will be subject to an engraved memento for the overall winner.