How you get seeded into the world cup and process for making the top-64 on day 2:

Originally Posted by oiuyt

Top 16 entered are exempt to the second day where they are seeds 1-16 in the DE tableau.

Pools of 6 and 7 for the remaining 95.

Cut some number between 20% and 30%.

Top 16 from pools advance to the second day where they have seeds 17-32.

Run a DE for the remaining first-day fencers (those that were neither cut nor advanced in the last two steps) down to 32 fencers. These fencers are positions 33-64 in the second-day tableau.

There's also a randomized process by which each pair of fencers (1 seed and 2 seed; 3 seed and 4 seed; etc) can be flipped to add a bit of variation to the tableau.

-B

edit: Oh, and junior points are not used. If there's a tie in senior ranking (all the people with FIE rank 999) it's random selection time. Merely having competed in a senior world cup gets someone onto the ranking list, even if 0 FIE points have been earned.