The Tournament Committee has decided that the panels for the Open, Womens' & Senior's Playoffs in 2012 will only apply to Division One entrants. These panels will include every player who has received PQPs during 2011. Division Two entrants do not need any PQPs.

The Management Committee has decided that players who were too young to enter some or all 2011 ABF events offering Seniors PQPs but are old enough to enter the 2012 Seniors playoff will be entitled to transfer their Open PQPs to Seniors PQPs provided that they have 24 or more Open Points. This affects players who turn 59 during calendar 2011.

The Tournament Regulations published in January 2011 changed clause 26.4 to mean that a unit (either a pair or a team) remained eligible for PQPs as long as there was one eligible player, thus removing the difference between pairs & teams. This change did not come to the attention of the PQP Compiler until after the PQP awards for the GOld Coast Teams were published. The effect of this is that both the Noble and Hans teams are now eligible for PQP awards. A revised display of awards has now been published

The Tournament Committee has decided that the Last Train events should be the last event in the PQP calendar rather than the first as is now the case. The Last Train event in 2012 will be an event leading to the 2012 Playoffs. Consequently there will be two Last Train events in the 2012 PQP Calendar. I have dubbed the second of these events the Very Last Train

The Regulation for the Open Playoff provide for a minimum panel size of 64. With nine players equal on 64th place with 18 PQPs the Open panel has 72 members.

The ABF has decided that Gulzar Bilal has met the residential qualifications and is eligible to accrue PQPs.

Barry Noble advised the organisers that Mischa Solar was a substitute not a team member so her name does not appear in the results published in the PQP area despite it showing in the results area.

Corrections to the 2009 NOT PQPs - David Morgan is now considered to be eligible.

Corrections to 2009 Womens Butler PQPs - the PQPs for the tie for 4th/ 5th place now correct.

New PQP Board Rules for the 2009 NOT were set by the Tournament Committee: The board rule for PQP in the 2009 NOT is one stanza in the round-of-20 and 2 stanzas in each of the combined round-of-12/round-of-6, semi-final & final. Different board rules apply to eligibility for the title, continuation or masterpoints.

New PQP Award scales were set by the Tournament Committee: Awards for the Australian Butler Pairs Championships are for 1st to 9th; Awards for the Swiss qualifying events for the NOT, NWT and NST are for 1st and 2nd (or 1st at each venue for a split field), see the PQP Award Table.

In the 2009 National Open Teams, should there be no ineligible teams in places 1 to 7, then the eligible teams eliminated in the round of sixteen shall share the PQPs for eighth place.

The Last Train events are to receive PQP Awards regardless of whether they qualify units for the Playoff or not. They will be the first event in the PQP calendar thus counting towards entry into the Playoff held in the following calendar year.

Last Train events in even years qualify units to the Playoff in that even year. Last Train events in odd years do not qualify units to the Playoff in that odd year.

In the 2009 National Open Teams and in the finals of the National Womens & Seniors Teams, should there be fewer eligible teams than there are PQP Awards, the PQP Award for the lower PQP places not filled by eligible teams shall not be awarded.

PQP Awards are not awarded to teams in the SWPT that did not qualify for the NOT.

Before being able to transport PQPs earned in Open events to the Womens or Seniors lists, a player must earn 6 PQPs in Womens events (to have the Open points included in the Womens list) or a player must earn 12 PQPs in Seniors events (to have the Open points included in the Seniors list).

For events at the Summer Festival, the PQP Awards for the Swiss and the Finals of the Open, Womens & Seniors events are independent.

For the calculation of PQP Awards, the eligible units are ranked 1st, 2nd, ... up to the number of PQP Awards for the event.

When units tie for a PQP place in an event, the PQP awards for this place and the next lower place or places (if any) are summed and divided by the number of tied units. In doing so, PQP Awards are calculated to one decimal place.

Playoff Qualifying Points are awarded only to eligible units.

To be an eligible unit at least one of the players in a Pair or two of the players in a Team must be financial members of the ABF Masterpoint Scheme and must have met the board rule as stated in the ABF Tournament Regulations.

The players in each eligible unit in an event are designated by a lower case letter in the PQP awards page for each event.