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The answer is as follows: first, we need to conduct a survey among players on the following topics:
1) Is there a desire to participate?
2) When is it possible to come (at least for 5 days, less is pointless)?
3) Where is it possible to come (in terms of money and time)?
4) On which game versions are you willing to play?
My answers:
1) Yes
2) New Year holidays (if I get time off from work), as well as in spring/summer if I take a vacation.
3) Anywhere within the European part of the USSR
4) TE-full (preferably), TE-light (acceptable), I will definitely not play on SoD.
If, based on the results of the survey, a sufficient quorum is gathered, then we can start organizational activities.
12-16 people for 2-3 days will be like having sex in a toilet during a break.
The optimal schedule is 1 game per day. The optimal number of rounds (Swiss system for sure) = log_2(N) + 1
So, calculate - for 16 people, it turns out to be 5 days. Well, 4, if you squeeze it in.
2 Wicc.
So, I assume, with a high degree of probability, there will be 4 qualifying tournaments - Michurinsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg.
I believe that the organizers should have maximum freedom in choosing the conditions for holding the qualifying tournaments.
St. Petersburg believes that more time is needed, full TE, and New Year holidays - so be it.
Michurinsk believes that SoD, 3 days - 5 rounds, and the deadline is the end of September, so let it be so too.
Because there is no point in arguing over trifles, especially now, when nothing has been done yet.
The organizer takes full responsibility for the qualifying tournament and, in return, determines the rules.
Moreover, the groups are very little overlapping with each other. Let's say Michurinsk and St. Petersburg, our local players only play on SoD, and World players will join them.
You, St. Petersburg, play on full TE, and Baev players will come.
No, we won't overlap in any way.
Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, due to the distance, have their own specifics; they can come to central Russia only for the final, due to the importance of the event.
So, 4 groups will definitely not compete in anything, neither in versions nor in players.
Now we are waiting for Moscow, Minsk, and Ukraine to say.
And 12-16 people can perfectly play a Swiss tournament in 5 rounds in 3 days if they don't get distracted by poker and drinking (don't get too distracted).
P.S. For the final, 12-16 people - there are 6 qualifying centers, so 2-3 players from each?
It all depends on the strength of the tournament, who will participate. This determines the quotas. A strong qualifying tournament - more, a weak one - less. But, I think, it is not necessary to give a qualifying tournament less than 2 places. It is more interesting to go to the final in pairs.
I keep Michurinsk in mind as a backup (for the final). If no one takes on the task, I have a club with 25 computers, so I can accommodate approximately 20 people. This is why I named the approximate number of finalists, about 20.