 Play-offs are used to decide the premiers of the National Rugby League (NRL) in Australasia, where they are known as "finals" (also as "semi finals" or "semis") – as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than a series.Currently, in the NRL, eight teams qualify for the finals; starting with the 2012 season, the system was changed from the McIntyre Final Eight to the same system used by the AFL.Previously, the term play-off was used in the NSWRL competition to describe matches which were played as tie breakers to determine qualification for the finals series.