Pay prizes by flight

Paying by flight splits the field into separate competitions. Each flight has its own pool, its own winners, and its own places paid, chosen from the purse table by how many players that flight has. The pool for each flight is suggested from the buy-ins its players paid.

Before you start:

• The event has flights (Flights).
• The tournament has a purse table (Purse tables).
• Players’ buy-ins are marked paid (Manage registrations).

1. Check the event’s Flights tab: every player who should win money needs to be in a flight.

   

2. Open the tournament from the round’s Tournaments tab. Split leaderboard by flight is on for a new tournament; if it’s off, turn it on. Pay purse per flight and Award points per flight appear underneath: turn on the ones you want.

   

3. Under Point Values, set Purse per player: what each player puts in for this game. Select Save Changes.

   

4. Open the event’s Purse Pools (from the Results page, or the round’s Tournaments tab). For a tournament paid by flight, each flight has its own pool, suggested as the purse per player times that flight’s paid players. Change any amount, or type an amount in the box beside Apply to all flights and select it for the same pot in each. Select Save Changes. A flight marked Not saved pays nothing until you save: the amount in its box is only a suggestion.

   

5. Complete the round and the event. On the Results page, open Gross — Flights or Net — Flights. Each flight shows its players, its pool and its winners.

   

6. The Player Purse Summary adds up what each player won across the event’s games.

   

Caution

• A player who isn’t in a flight, and a flight with no saved pool, win nothing. The event checklist (Flight purse pools saved), Purse Pools and the Results page all point out a flight with players and no saved pool. To pay a flight nothing on purpose, save $0 for it.
• Regenerating flights replaces them, and their pools with them: open Purse Pools and save again afterwards. Do the same when more players pay; the page tells you when the count has changed.
• When a Gross & Net tournament awards both points and money with a prize bias (Gross Wins is the default), Pay purse per flight and Award points per flight must both be on or both be off.

Note

These settings belong to each round’s tournament, not to the template, so set them on every round you want paid by flight. Skins, Match Play and Custom games can’t be paid by flight.