what jidu was trying to say is that the best 4 should be given the benefit of doubt and not by saying that the best 4 in the competition is the best 4 out of those that participated the reason is because of piggy's previous post of trying to ENCOURAGE and trying to tell people to suppport the national players. Here you are telling people that they are top 4 "only for that year" and only for "those that participated" can u tell me why this statement is necessasary? Do you have a better way of selecting the top 4? Maybe u wanna organise another national competition.
All systems are flawed some have more some have less. Which is the best is still hard to say. This current system might be to a disadvantage to some stronger players but it has also a very good way of training the players mental and also helping players adjust to different systems more importantly it gives different players more opportunity to represent Singapore. I think people like ruizhan deserve some credit instead people are asking people to give up their place to others. For whose sake? The countries? Anyone can gurantee who can play very well? as i mentioned in the previous posts one of the top players in singapore Lai han soon represented in 2004 and got 5 losses one draw. who expected that? Its all about form.
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