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 each Team from Combined Best 9 Scores Relative to Par Standings
+ 2 Captain's Picks for each 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.
Edit: 3/23: The 3rd US Team's captain's pick, which was a feature of prior RyderCups in order to accomodate WGTicon, has now been removed as Icon will compete for his place as iconian in the weekly events.
Alternates:
We will certainly need alternates. The commitments I've been asking for are necessarily non-binding. We are talking about an event that is 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 @ Chambers Bay :: Team Standings:
Please note: this is a tricky spreadsheet to comprehend. I've tried to present the material in as clear a manner as possible (and yet make it a dynamic spreadsheet that will update as each 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 against the list of players who have indicated their intent to try and qualify (and for which team) [note this list currently has prior participants in it, but will be updated as people respond in this thread].
PLEASE NOTE: this list may not be fully complete: at this point I don't know who else might put themselves forward (and there are some assumptions involved, e.g. that former RC players would wish to qualify again).
Here are the Team Qualification Sheets: Team USA | Team ROW
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.
The sheet will show 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 :)