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Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:26 am
by MartinCarpenter
Interesting to see what happens. There's definitely a pragmatic case for sticking as close to the extant status quo as possible - any time the boundaries change significantly you lose established players, and they can be hard to replace even if you've got a theoretically large playing pool.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:47 am
by Mick Norris
Yes, my initial thought was that Option 3 might be best for that reason; will be interesting to see what is agreed

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:59 am
by Kevin Thurlow
"There's definitely a pragmatic case for sticking as close to the extant status quo as possible - any time the boundaries change significantly you lose established players, and they can be hard to replace even if you've got a theoretically large playing pool."

Yes.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:14 pm
by Jon Underwood
David Gilbert wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:23 pm
IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:26 pm
I don't think it'll affect WECU much either way; our counties don't have large enough player bases for this to matter.
Maybe, but Devon and other smaller counties might have an interest. They often enter teams in the Minor. This has been a competition for teams with an average grade of 180. Under these choices option 1 becomes an average 2000 (174) tournament, option 2 increases the average to 2100 (187) while under option 3 it remains at 2050 (180).
I'm not sure. 180 was about as high as we could get in the absence of a FIDE titled player for board one. OTOH moving down to 173 equivalent would be good for some of the smaller counties. I've argued for a few years now that there should be three mutually exclusive first team competitions, Open, Major (average sub 2100 perhaps) and Minor (maybe average sub 1950).

The present setup and all the ones proposed give nothing realistic for the smaller counties to aim for, but I haven't found anyone in a position to do anything about it want to give it a try. It is rather frustrating...

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:28 pm
by Nick Grey
will be good to hear from bigger and smaller counties and unions. I think some established players will play less.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 4:51 pm
by Mick Norris
I gather option 2 won the day

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 11:33 pm
by David Gilbert
It was option 3. In the end agreed by 38 votes to 7. Open, U2050, U1850, U1650, U1450.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 7:41 am
by Mick Norris
Ok, thank David, I realise there was a typo in the email I received

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 10:15 am
by Mick Norris
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Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:15 pm
by Simon Rogers
Hopefully it will go ahead especially as a number of clubs like us, Preston and Lytham St.Annes have new members since we have reopened.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:05 pm
by Nick Burrows
Is the Minor a team average of U2050 or an individual rating limit?

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:31 pm
by Mick Norris
Average

ECF scroll down to the bottom, open pdf, see C4

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:39 pm
by Nick Burrows
Mick Norris wrote:
Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:31 pm
Average

ECF scroll down to the bottom, open pdf, see C4
Thanks. I thought that was the case, but I looked at a bunch of results in the SCCU and all players happened to be under 2050.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:38 pm
by David Sedgwick
Nick Burrows wrote:
Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:39 pm
Thanks. I thought that was the case, but I looked at a bunch of results in the SCCU and all players happened to be under 2050.
I think that you may be confusing the Minor Counties Championship with the U2050 Counties Championship.

Re: Will the County Championship go ahead

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:43 pm
by Nick Burrows
David Sedgwick wrote:
Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:38 pm
Nick Burrows wrote:
Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:39 pm
Thanks. I thought that was the case, but I looked at a bunch of results in the SCCU and all players happened to be under 2050.
I think that you may be confusing the Minor Counties Championship with the U2050 Counties Championship.
I am! What's the difference?