Well there has always been overlap. Senior women are eligible for any of four World Championships in Sanya, and Under 16 Women are elgible for seven of the eight world championships.
Conditions of contest for the europeans have now been updated. The Open Series get 8 qualifiers, the Women and Seniors still get 6. There are respectively 33,23 and 22 Teams in the three series, so I guess the number of teams in the series is a factor. Good news ...
My personal opinion is that it wasn't satisfactory. For example, at one of the championships the carry forward was done purely on positions, 22, 20, 18 VP's etc. So the first 3 three teams could have scores of 323.00, 273.00, 272.99 and the first teams ...
Alan, the only time to my knowledge that a complete round robin hasn't been played was a few years ago in the European Championships Open series when they had two groups and then a final group with some sort of carry over. After two failed attempts to make this ...
This is joke Michael, surely, it can't possibly be a serious suggestion? If you asked the participating teams how many of them would vote for your proposed format you would get no votes. No team likes playing even one threesome, let alone six whole days of them. And how ...
Also "the duration of the championship will not change, being 8 days of round robin and 6 days of KO (Quarterfinal, Semifinal and Final) played as 96 board matches."
The overall length of the championships will not change, but one day will be added to the qualification, and to get ...
One of the BBO voice commentators said the same, that it was in response to players and NBO's. That's probably it.
In the World Championships they only play 3 x 16 board matches a day. I always thought that was a bit soft, but it seems odd that ...
I notice there have been two significant changes
1) Reversion to a complete round robin
2) A really tough schedule with four matches, I assume 16 boards, most days.
Has any reason been given for these changes? I'm just curious.