I think there is just a difference between "inviting" someone, because of personal reasons or based on data not shown and
having players or teams enter a tournament at a later stage, because of their seed which is based either on ratings, a mixture of ratings and previous performance, or just previous performance.
From my own tournaments, I just have this case in 3 TG tournaments, but it is the same as in several other tournaments, that the same seeding method was used for all registered players/teams and a number of players/teams with the highest seeds (e. g. top 6 or top 8) started in the Ro16/Ro32/group stage instead of in the first round.
Robo and most other people know this, so I think it is just a word or two that need to be changed to differentiate between
having players or teams enter a tournament at a later stage, because of their seed which is based either on ratings, a mixture of ratings and previous performance, or just previous performance.
From my own tournaments, I just have this case in 3 TG tournaments, but it is the same as in several other tournaments, that the same seeding method was used for all registered players/teams and a number of players/teams with the highest seeds (e. g. top 6 or top 8) started in the Ro16/Ro32/group stage instead of in the first round.
Robo and most other people know this, so I think it is just a word or two that need to be changed to differentiate between
- "directly qualified via seeding" - e. g. top 8 seeds of Terra Nova Duos
- "qualified via open qualifier"
- "invited/qualified by using a different seeding method than the other participants" - e. g. RBW Legacy invited players based on previous wins/tournament placements which were not RBW qualifiers
- "invited by TO not based on objective/published criteria" - e. g. DauT and hoang in King of the Americas 3.