Thanks -- new to forum, should have searched first.
RE: Qualifying round -- agree, doesn't really matter. However, this happens in final rounds too. I finally had had enough and decided to register for the forum and post my displeasure.
Beyond being extremely discourteous -- this intentional crashing can impact your opponent's ability to compete. The result is -- players like myself that probably should enter at a higher and more expensive level (e.g. "Veteran") -- won't do it. We just enter "Rookie" because we don't want to risk more than the 10 credits and get stuck with Error 1072 bogies which immediately take you out of contention. This ends up impacting everybody as the casual player now has to contend with Legends shooting sub 60 rounds playing in a "rookie" show down.
Thanks for letting me vent.