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Tying in with DubaiSis' post, the old system caused a lot more PNMs to be cross cut. In a nutshell, every Chapter wanted to invite the max for full parties so "popular" Chapters knowingly invited back PNMs they had no intention of pledging. PNMs would accept the invites from the popular Chapters and regret those from the less popular without giving them a legit chance. These were not only great Chapters, but they were also where the PNMs had a real shot at getting a bid. Then in the next round(s) the popular Chapters started dropping the PNMs they didn't want. Since those PNMs had already declined the less popular Chapters, they were left with nothing.
RFM forces the popular Chapters to make bigger cuts earlier in the process. The logic is to not have PNMs get their heart set on one or more Chapters by getting invited back to multiple rounds when in reality they have no chance of getting a bid there. PNMs may suffer some disappointment at the beginning of the process, yet (hopefully) they have still have options/invites available to them.
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