2024 Tournaments Prizes and Points

Diamond: 24

Platinum: 48

Gold: 64

Tungsten: 96

Silver: 64

Bronze: 64

Should a player reach a ‘standard greater’ than their current grade, they will be moved up a grade for Tour events. ‘Standard greater’ means that you are regularly/consistently playing at 5% or greater than the grade boundary guideline that we set and in some cases much higher and/or reaching the latter stages of tour events whilst averaging over the guideline boundary and/or regularly performing above your current grade boundary in your League matches. Simply running slightly over the top boundary for a grade does not necessarily mean that you will be moved up, if your results don’t reflect that you should. Notification of moving up a grade will be communicated by email.

Players who are identified for moving down a Tour grade by the GDL will be asked if they’d like to move down a grade. Moving down a grade will not be mandatory if you wish to stay in your current grade and try to improve. To be identified as a player to move down a grade, you must be running at least 1% lower than your current grade boundary. The GDL will also consider current rankings and results in this decision to ask you.

Players who are identified for moving up a Tour grade by the GDL before Majors 1 & 2 will receive the following amount of Tour ranking points towards the next Major for their new grades:

• 50pts less than the player sat in the last position for the given Major race or 5pts, whichever is highest.

The player then has the chance to qualify for their new grade Major. Qualification is confirmed by achieving one of the following:

1. Player finishes in the automatic places of the ‘Race for the Major’ in the new grade. The player would qualify for the new grade Major as normal.
2. Player finishes outside of the automatic qualification places for the new grade but their 3month 3DA still remains above the lower boundary for their new grade. The player would qualify as a ‘Additional qualifier’ for the new grade and play against the player in the last automatic qualification place in an additional match.*
3. Player finishes outside of the automatic qualification places for the new grade and their 3month 3DA has fallen back below the lower boundary for their new grade. The player would then qualify for the Major of the grade they originally came from. They will be seeded above any players who haven’t yet been moved up a grade, in order of ranking points accrued before they moved up.

*If more than one player qualifies via these methods, the additional matches will be against the next player up on the OoM

Players who are identified for moving down a grade by the GDL between qualifiers will carry all points towards the Major for the new grade.

Players who are identified for moving up a Tour grade by the GDL will receive the following amount of Tour ranking points towards the ‘Race to the Worlds’ for their new grades, depending on when in the year they move up:

• Before the first Major of the year: 100pts
• Between the first and second Major of the year: 200pts
• Between the second Major of the year and GDL World Championships: 300pts

All League/League Cup points accrued at the point of moving up will retain their value in the new grades ranking.

This has been calculated so that players moving up a grade aren’t punished too harshly for improving their game, but also so that players that are remaining in the same grade aren’t too harshly punished for new players joining the grade.

The player then has the chance to qualify for their new grade World Championship. Qualification is confirmed by achieving one of the following:

1. Player finishes in the automatic places of the ‘Race for the Worlds’ in the new grade. The player would qualify for the new grade GDL World Championship as normal.
2. Player moved up a grade more than 90 days before the GDL World Championships but finishes outside of the automatic qualification places for the new grade. The player would qualify as a ‘Additional qualifier’ for the new grade and play the player in the last automatic qualification place in an additional match.*
3. Player moved up a grade less than 90 days before the GDL World Championships, finishes outside of the automatic qualification places for the new grade but their 3month 3DA still remains above the lower boundary for their new grade. The player would qualify as an ‘Additional qualifier’ for the new grade and play the player in the last automatic qualification place in an additional match.*
4. Player moved up a grade less than 90 days before the GDL World Championships, finishes outside of the automatic qualification places for the new grade and their 3month 3DA has fallen back below the lower boundary for their new grade. The player would then qualify for the GDL World Championships of the grade they originally came from. They will be seeded above any players who haven’t yet been moved up a grade, in order of ranking points accrued before they moved up.

*If more than one player qualifies via these methods, the prelim matches will be against the next player up on the OoM

Players who are identified for moving down a Tour grade by the GDL will carry ALL points towards the ‘Race of the Worlds’ for the new grade.

You must have played in an official GDL match within the last 90 days of the draws being made to be eligible for the World Championship MAJOR (if you’ve qualified)

Players are eligible for one grade Major (incl. GDL World Championship) only, the highest grade that they qualify for.