4 and 1 Formula for Olympiad team.

I heard some feedback that Roshan has declined going to this year's Olympiad but I cannot get any feedback on who is actually going. Nobody seems to know. Even MCF officials not in the "selection committee". What's the big secret? Singapore has already announced their team. Actually who is in the selection committee of MCF? Is there one or is it just smoke and mirrors to hide one man's decision.

Anyway these are my musings today. Let's see.

The parents pay for their kids participating in International events like Asean and other age group events. And the price we pay is high as this is a cash cow for the organisers. The parents even pay for the officials going in the form of sponsorship like what FGM did or from management fees charged by MCF. The parents pay for the training for their child by sending them to the different trainers we have in Malaysia and elsewhere.

The players and parents pay for the tournaments by supporting MCF events.

So we fund the entire system.

MCF uses their NGO status to get outside sponsors and pay themselves although the Association don't belong to them but to all the members of parents and players. And even then most of the sponsors come from the parents and players contacts.

Think about it. Do they return any of the benefits to us like training our players before we send them out? What happens to the surplus from International events where they got local and Fide sponsorship as well as tournament fees? So actually what does MCF contribute?

And what do they do instead? They chop off the feet of the older juniors by only sending one player to junior events. (ie U20) thereby ensuring that those who can challenge the senior team and bring progress to Malaysian chess is crippled after gaining all the experience and knowledge. Why? So they can start the hype for the younger players all over again and so that they make money from filled classes of starry eyed youngsters?

Is that a fairly balanced summation?

So is that why the people who are paying and contributing get to fight for only one place, and the people being paid by us get to choose 4 places? (And now that Roshan has declined, 5 places?) Ref: Here.

And now it's even top secret who the players are. The people we are paying is keeping important information from us. The people we are paying is telling us that they are more important than all of us, the entire chess community, by a ratio of 4:1. Are all of us, who pay for everything, only deserving of only the crumbs that they discard?