Because this has been the topic of a lot of discussion of late, I want to open to floor to discuss a point that I feel has been missed: In recent months, there has been a strong push among many major PTO groups to distribute Prize Tickets and have the players accumulate them to bring back to a Prize Wall. Players, however, still expect to be able to split these prizes. Past practice has been to allow this, despite the tickets clearly being redeemable for prizes that go beyond unopened product, and having zero cash value and expiring after the individual event.

How do people feel about this? Should this be included as part of policy?

I will be Head Judging an event this weekend at GP Detroit that specifies that Prize Tickets will be awarded based on match points, so splits are already included, but future events may be handled in other ways.

This is not a discussion topic; this is a corporate decision, and we have (now) a clear direction on how to enforce the policy.

I'll repeat myself: “…cash and/or unopened product…” is the phrase supplied by Hasbro's legal department. That phrase, in the MTR, guides what we can or cannot allow.

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Just one point of clarification - that specific phrase - “cash and/or unopened product” - is used when describing splits among the Top 8 or Top 4. Thus, the Top 8 of an event with 100 prize tickets can not agree to an even split, as those prize tickets are neither cash, nor unopened product.

Two players can still agree to prize splits (regardless of the type of prize at stake), and the two finalists still have that generous exception language available.

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