According to the survey we decide the following for this year’s tournament:
The qualifiers for the euros will at the same time be the Swiss championships
A player who plays the Swiss qualifiers is not allowed to participate on any other qualifying event for the euros
A “Swiss” player is, who currently plays in Switzerland
Due to titleholding already qualified players are allowed to participate, but their entire team is not able to qualify for the Euros. In case the team ends up on a qualifying rank, the qualification is passed on to the next team in ranking order.
3 out of 4 players of the team must be “Swiss”
Even if this now is obsolete, we thank Geneva a lot for the offer to organise separate Swiss Championships! Of course, we would still appreciate, if there was another tournament somewhen later this year in Geneva!
We are aware, the participation of a team who is not eligible to qualify may distort the competition for the qualifying ranks of the other teams. We try to come up with a mode that enables to have both, a fair qualification and a good competition for the title of the Swiss Champions. Depending on the number of participating teams, this may be less or more complicated due to scheduling and capacity issues. For the unlikely case that many (e.g. 16) teams sign up, the very emergency case would be, that we had to uninvite already qualified teams again and do a qualification tournament only. However, we try our best and hope things are not becoming even more complicated :D
We are going to wait until we have all the teams registered. So we can do as much as we can with the number of teams
Most probably 2 balance group rounds on the first day + double elimination & direct confrontation for ranking on the last day.
But yes it could be reviewed if there any concerns from the committee.
Pleeeenty questions here but ill stick to whats relevant: i will sign up because my team for euros (most likely) wont be playing any qualification event :))
Thank god for loopholes. For further questions please refer to our legal team
We are 95% sure that this won’t be needed . But yes I guess we would look at the options and take a decision together. For us would be the same the where and when.
Then maybe if possible can we do longer matches? Anyone I have talked about this, they feel the same about it: that 16 min is hardly an incentive to swap players.
20min? What do you think?
Thanks for the input.
We would need to check the time schedule. I think the best is if we do different lengths during the tournament. Currently on the second day I have 25 games max with 20min between games and that is around 8.5hours.
For the first day we have to think was is more important. direct encounters or time play .
But I will keep you posted as soon as we have more info.
Is good to know your perspective as well.
Personal opinion: consistency with game duration throughout the whole tournament is important. Especially if you have to think a bit ahead with swapping players etc.
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