My mailbox is also full of requests for a qualification facility.
I think the suggestion by a Sailwave user in the 'States is most practical.
- Introduce a qualification profile - c.f. the discard profile.
- Score the series as per Appendix A - it's too messy/ambiguous to deal with
non-qualifiers at this stage.
- Mark non-qualifiers as say DNQ (user definable) in the Position column;
leave their point intact so they can see how they did; they might have
beaten some of the non-qualifiers on points and this is interesting info.
- Rerank remaining competitors appropriately.
- Include DNQs when publishing.
How does that sound...?
Regards,
Colin