By Fumio "MORO" Morooka
Technical Delegate for World Games 2001, Akita Japan
WFDF Board Member, PDGA 4012

As agreed with the IWGA, there will be six nations invited to send a male and a female player to World Games 2001 Akita. One of those invited will be Japan, the host nation. The other five nations will be determined by the results of PDGA Pro Worlds 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. WG national invitations will be based on the combined results of each nation's top two point scorers in the Open and one top point scorer in the Women's divisions of play. Points will be awarded as follows:

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- Scoring within the Open division will be determined by the number of players entered in the division. If 350 players are entered it will be worth 350 points to win, 349 for second and so on down to 1 point for 350th place. Japanese players' finishes will, for the sake of point distribution, be treated as any other players'.

- Scoring in the Women's division will be the same system as in the Open with the addition of a multiplier to give each division equal point value. Therefore, if there are 350 Open players and 50 Women's players, the point multiplication factor will be 7. The winner of the Women's division will get 50x7=350 points, just as the Open winner will. The 5th place women will get 46x7=322 points, which is proportional to the points earned by the Open player who beat the same percentage of the Open field.

- Nations may enter as many players as are able to qualify in each of the divisions, but only the two top scorers in the Open and the top Women's scorer will be counted. If two or more countries are tied for the last invitation position, a tiebreak procedure will be used which will award the position to the country which has the higher scoring total for their top man and women combined.

-Invited countries must formally accept their WG invitation by November 31 or their spots will be given to the next placing countries.

The National Association for each country chosen shall then be responsible for selecting the male and female players to represent its country in Akita at the World Games.

At the World Games, the competition be played under the rules of disc golf as established by WFDF for that year. The format for both the men's and women's divisions will be as follows:

Preliminary Round
Round-Robin Match Play. Each player will play a nine-hole match against each other player in the division (5 matches). Based on the won/lost records of that round, the players will advance to a final round. If a tiebreak is needed, the number of holes that each player won will be considered.

Final Round
The player finishing first in the preliminary round robin will play an 18 hole match against the player who finished second. The winner will be declared the champion. The third finishing player from the round robin will play the fourth finishing for the third position. The fifth finishing player from the round robin will play the sixth finishing for the fifth position.