P.S. Eric, I don't quite understand who and how you are scamming. This is business, circumstances change every day, the one who pays is right, and agreements can only be preliminary in this case. You need to please most of the players, not just the club, right?
I still haven't received an answer to my question and am a little confused. Is the gathering for the club and television, or for the participants themselves? Does anyone even need this television coverage? Maybe it's worth starting a poll about the dates and location, and planning it based on where the majority wants to be, regardless of whether it's for the club or not? Right now, I see that it's not the club that the dates are being adjusted for, but the players are being adjusted for the club. How is that? What qualifying rounds are being held to recruit for the club?? What was the point of holding the ones that were held? Nonsense, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, I don't have a teleporter, and I won't be in Michurinsk on the 2nd, 800 km is a long way, and it's not great to come for the third round and miss half of the tournament events. Unless I just come as a spectator.
Playing online for the first round is fine for the qualifiers, but it's not suitable for the final. Not everyone will find the motivation to travel with zero or 0.5 points after the first round. The Kyiv experience showed that 0.5 points are no longer enough to take first place.
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