<reposted for ease of finding from later posts in the thread with final selection criteria [5/14/14] and final standings results [6/24/14]>
UPDATE:
I've spent the last week or so asking players who've been doing well in the Spring 2014 UEL Tour if they intend to try and qualify for the Ryder Cup teams, and updating the Tour Spreadsheet from those who have responded to show current standings for team selection status.
Also I'm now able to be precise about the balance for Team Selection:
Teams will be comprised of the following players:
• Top player for each Team from each tier's credit standings (TL & L)
• Next 4 for each Team from Combined Best 9 Scores Credit Standings
• Next 4 for the ROW Team from Combined Best 9 Scores Relative to Par Standings
& • Next 3 for the USA Team from Combined Best 9 Scores Relative to Par Standings *
+ 2 Captain's Picks for the ROW team, and 3 Captain's Picks for the USA Team.
* Why does the USA Team get an extra Captain's Pick, you may well ask?
Well, this is why: I am making an executive decision that if available, the extra USA Captain's pick will go to WGTIcon (who will play, as last time, as Iconian). Icon is not allowed to participate in WGT tournaments (on account of being an employee, and thus unable to qualify via the Tour), but has been a true advocate and expert exponent of Uneven Lies, and a great supporter of these events. I feel it is the right thing to do for the community to enable and embrace Icon's participation, and an honor for us to get to play alongside or against such a great player.
Alternates:
We will certainly need alternates. The commitments I've been asking for are necessarily non-binding. We are talking about an event that's several months away, and people's lives change.
Alternates will be selected, first and foremost, from the Spring UEL Tour standings as follows: 1st alternate is next player for each team from the Combined Best 9 Credits list, then 2nd alternate for each team is the next player from Combined Best 9 Relative to Par list, and so on, switching back and forth down the list.
UEL Ryder Cup @ Pinehurst :: Team Standings:
Please note: this is a tricky spreadsheet to comprehend. I've been wrestling with ways in which to present the material (and yet make it a dynamic spreadsheet that will update as the remaining week's results come in)... so I acknowledge it's not perfect, but I'm hoping you can make sense of it!
It pulls data from the Tiered Credits Standings, and the two Best9Scores Credits and Relative to Par Standings (in that order), and cross-references them againstthe list of players who have indicated their intent to try and qualify (and for which team).
Obviously, the players who currently show as winning particular team selection slots may change, as results come in, and if new players decide they want to try to qualify.
Finally, I've indicated names in yellow for those that qualify from that particular table, and in blue the players that have already qualified by virtue of their standing in a preceding table above. Hopefully, that helps :)
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UEL Ryder Cup @ Pinehurst :: FINAL Team Standings: after week 24 closing tourney
see post above for explanation of how these spreadsheets work
Below are updated sheets for each Team's qualification status following wk24 results at Kiawah in the UEL Spring Tour. Please check that everything is correct: I'm fairly sure I captured every player that declared an interest in qualification but please make sure.
Click on images below to go straight to respective spreadsheets, or right-click images below to open in new tab, and zoom in to see full size ....
Team ROW: final team qualification standings after wk24 tourney
fmagnets and Corwyn secure their slots on the ROW team by virtue of being the leading players in the TL and L tier credit standings respectively (indeed, they both won their Tours. Congrats!)
The next 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the combined best 9 finishes in the credit standings: KonradOse, Wontonamo, javiertorg, andniqueclyde fill those positions.
The final 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the combined best 9 scores relative to par standings: they are TallAcePaul, johehejo, FairwayRuepel68, and MainzMan.
The ROW team is made up of these 8 TL and 2 L players, with 2 captain's picks to be made closer to the event.
The ROW team qualification was especially hard-fought, with many outstanding players and RC veterans just missing out on automatic qualification. As it is certain that alternates will be needed, I hope that RC stalwarts such as stevereilly(who, along with lisalovesthesun, was just 3 shots off the pace, and in all probability just one extra round played would have been enough for either of them), Dazza501, Bonalyau, LOLserver, jsweetcr, alcaucin, and WigerToods will all make themselves available as needed. And for the newcomers, lisa came awfully close, as did other Legend emmalinks and cricketrules. One feels that with full participation every week, each of these players would have made the team. Hopefully we can get a good number of them involved in some way come September.
Team USA: final team qualification standings after wk24 tourney
bhoese and mmyers0 secure their slots on the USA team by virtue of being the leading players from their country in the TL and L tier credit standings respectively.
The next 4 spots go to the next best placed players in the combined best 9 finishes in the credit standings: KyRock75, BigKnight, ColumbusStorm (US team captain), and Wesdogg75 fill those positions.
The final 3 spots go to the next best placed players in the combined best 9 scores relative to par standings: they are fredsf, gishdrums, and poolmaniac6.
The USA team is made up of these 8 TLs and 1 L player, with 3 captain's picks to be made closer to the event (one of which is reserved for WGTicon, who will play as Iconian).
On the US side, players unlucky to miss automatic qualification include devonnnn (whose 3 missed weeks along with 2 rounds of +2 certainly cost him), while Golfhawk's promotion mid-Tour to TL made it harder to get the extra credits that would have found him a spot (he fell just 50 cr short).
But, again, with the certainty that alternates will be needed, US players that missed out should keep in touch with this thread and be ready for a call come September!
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Thank you everyone for your participation in the Spring UEL Tour and for battling away for Ryder Cup qualification.
Congratulations to all those who made automatic team selection, and commiserations to those that fell short.
I look forward to connecting with you all again at the end of the summer in preparation for the UEL Ryder Cup @ Pinehurst!