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The places where PNM's are guaranteed a bid require them to go to the maximum number of events each round. If they don't maximize their options then they aren't guaranteed a place.
What it amounts to is that if quota is 20 with guaranteed placement instead of getting 20 you might get 30. All of these women would have come to your pref party - which means per NPC rules they must be on your bid list somewhere. You were willing to give them a bid b/c you invited them to pref and put them on your bid list - so why would you then decide you don't want them when basically they are "free"????
I think the last three posts are talking about a different situation than guarnateed placement. I made mention earlier of CPH calling to see if people would reinvite a woman that was released out of recruitment all together. As I said in a later post, this was for early rounds - NOT for pref. I will add now that I've NEVER heard of a CPH calling to try to get a PNM invited to pref after all chapters had released her and DEFINATELY not an actual bid. In reality guaranteed placement just quota addition without a limit. Quota addition is - I think - 5% of quota. So, in our 20 person situation you could get 1 quota addtion - with guaranteed placement there is no limit.
My problem with guaranteed placement is that it lets the big to get bigger and causes the small to stay small. It is not guaranteed to make all chapters hit quota, just to place more PNMs. So, unless you make quota, it doesn't help you. That being said, guaranteed placement combined with the new release figures may work better. With those who historically better return rates having to release more women, in theory, there should be less that are no bids (meaning less placed through quota addtion or guaranteed placement).
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