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In this short explanatory monologue, the speaker defines "strength of tournaments" (also known as strength of field) as a measure of how strong the other participants in a tournament are. He uses the US Junior tournament as an example of a high-strength event and notes that not all AJGA events are equal. The speaker explains that the strength metric is derived by back‑calculating each player's performance at the time they competed, making it resistant to manipulation. Consequently, players cannot strategically enter tournaments merely to boost their perceived strength by targeting specific opponents, and attempts to game the system are ineffective.
