Also this was sent to your representatives.
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Even if this now is obsolete, we thank Geneva a lot for the offer to organise separate Swiss Championships!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