If a 'player' scores less than 500 points they do not count against the player limit.

That is all.

Well then there's the whole "player" versus "play" question. If I play it once, and then go to play it again, am I a 2nd "player", or just 1 player playing twice? BTG counts it the first way at present.

Right now I have it so if you get a score of zero or if you disconnect it doesn't count towards the player limit.

You want to raise it to 500?

that coult make problems with certain creative maps...
please leave it to 0

if 90% had problems to survive the first wave, they can be counted, too

I think that would be justifiable. It's quite possible one would get a score greater than zero -- it only requires killing one creep -- and yet realize that you made some big strategic error right off the bat that you'd like to correct.

Seems to me the tournament designers should want this too; presumably they want their games played to their fullest, not simply clicked on and terminated early.

To clarify - when you say "disconnect", does that include manually quitting a game? Or does it just mean breaking your internet connection?

if you abort playing by menu, your score reached by that moment is saved. if your compi crashes, you score will not upload.

The way to not get scored for the run is to kill the tab, or pressing the back-button.(previous page-button) This way the game never finishes your session and sends the score to the server...

@topic: I believe, a margin for error should be considered with the score limit.
I don't want to argue, if it's 10, 100 or 500, but if i setup a grid, and halfway through the first wave see, that it doesn't work or i screwed up on the setup, this shouldn't be considered as a try!