It seems like an unnecessarily complex rule. Sometimes compromises are a good thing, often they aren't! They should have gone for some sort of simple rule that reduces the weekend field with a single cut. This is just seems to be causing a bad feeling for those that made the pay cut, but not the play cut. I don't think a single one of them is traveling home today consoling himself with the thought that 'at least he made $10,000 / broke even for his HI trip'.