A new June 2020 “Just the Rules” (Leftover Loot) is now available.
new.uschess.org/news/just-rules-leftover-loot
I did post a reply about 10 hours ago (using examples of increasing the based-on amount for large turnouts since I didn’t have any examples of prizes nobody was eligible for) and received the following message “Your comment has been queued for review by site administrators and will be published after approval.”
Between the holiday and the new site it may be a while before comments actually get posted.
And one more programing headache, besides replies not being posted, is that my promos for this, and past, columns over on Facebook darken out the graphic that goes along with the column. If its not one thing, its another–Roseanna Roseanna Danna (Gilda Radner).
If it weren’t another thing, it would be the same thing again, and that might be even worse, right? 
Bill Smythe
I think something must be broken with the review system. The last time I got an email telling me there was a post to review was June 16th. A few minutes ago I tried clicking on the link in that email and got a 404 Not found error. Sorry it’s taken me so long to notice. I’ve been busy helping to direct online tournaments.
June 16th was probably when they went from the WordPress home page to the Drupal home page, they probably still need to set up moderators with access. I’ll remind staff of that.
I finally tried to repost my comment - apparently successfully:
Leftover loot (which I’ve never had to deal with) has some similarities to loot added because of significantly exceeding a based-on turnout. Although there are rules about how to reduce prizes when a based-on is not met, there are no rules about how to increase them. The organizer has complete flexibility as long as no advertised (and awardable) prizes are reduced.
At one Pan-Am in Chicago around 1990 the individual side event had a first prize of $100 and additional prizes of $40 each for second and for various classes. The based on was significantly exceeded so the prize fund was modified to insert a $60 prize for second (the $40 became third) and to add $5, $10 and $15 to three of the class prizes (if memory serves the B class had the most players and $15 added, the C class was next largest with $10 added and the A class had $5 added).
At one of the master challenges the first place of $800 was left alone and a second prize was inserted between first and the original second, with most of the class prizes increased.