Saturday, June 9, 2012

Should Li Tian be allowed to leap frog?

Tomorrow we will be submitting the names for our Olympiad team. So while we wait for the result of the deliberation of the selection committee, I am wondering this. Should Li Tian be allowed to leap frog Syazwan and Eng Chiam based on this result submitted as part of the evidence that he is better. Here. Judge for yourself.

What about the result of his 3 losses at NC2012 to the top 3? Can we also submit in evidence and argue that despite the private sponsorship to China and training by Jimmy, he is not strong enough to beat 3 local players without that type of backing? Would that show that these boys are actually a lot stronger and with greater potential because they fought with a "handicap"? What do we put on the weighing scale to consider?

So is selection for the Olympiad based on a PR campaign and suspect results from certain tournaments or objective evaluation to find our strongest players?

Lets wait and see what the deliberations from our technical experts turn out.

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