What exactly does XP mean in tournaments?

[Alex_tgiu]

This might be a basic question, but I was suprised to not find it in Q&A section or the XP explanation section.
What does the XP display on a tournament mean? Is this something one can win? And is this something the organizer can set or is somehow calculated?

[partyhat]

I'm wondering the same thing.

[Kampfschwein Fjonda]

I have 3 insights on that - Tournament XP depends on number of participants. Winner of a big tournament gets like 300 XP.
In earlier days it seems to have been corrupted, as some people started many micro tournaments to farm XP.

[thoun]

So all of it goes to the number one ?
No proportional split between top ranked players?

[Bravehome]

So all of it goes to the number one ?
No proportional split between top ranked players?

This is from the BGA site:
In tournaments, XP is not split proportionally among top players — it’s usually awarded to the top rank

[lefalaf]

As far as I know:
- all goes to 1st place
- 300xp may be the max. I don't recall noticing higher.
- the amount is based on the number of players, but I think it doesn't need to be super huge to get the max XP (if you look at a lot of tournaments and see which are 0xp and which are 300xp or something in-between, you'll get a feel for how many registered players give full xp. it might be 64 or even 32, but I don't recall
- not sure that is documented anywhere, but I might be wrong
- is pretty meaningless relative to the large amounts arena mode gives you, so I've written off XP and just ignore it when joining tournaments. I don't play arena as I hate how arena is structured.

[nik592]

You both realise this was a thread from more than 5 years ago, right? It's very possible that things have changed since this was originally being discussed as well.