Originally Posted by
pdx1M
Yup - never made any sense to me. Back when it first happened I think I wrote them and got a "that's just the way it is" response. Typical of all these programs, they do stuff that at the least annoys people and gains them nothing financially. RPUs cost them nothing - they capacity control them to the extent today that they clear only when they would have been giving out CPU anyway.
LT 1Ks who do not subsequently qualify in the normal PQM/PQ scheme really don't jump over the RPU-earning Plat hurdles, they go around. They jump over the 1K hurdle (by means of their 3MM status) and get the 1K prize (6 GPUs and 2 RPUs)