repeat it. But that ship has long sailed; times, people, and Heroes have all changed. What we'll have here is not a repeat of Krasnodar-2004, but a repeat of Kiev-2010 — the participant list even matches by about 70-80%. Yet you stubbornly ignore those who live in the present and know how things actually stand.
In Krasnodar, apparently everyone was on vacation, so you could leisurely put together a schedule. But we're taking 1-2 days off work, meaning it's a just-in-time system: a group check-in on the morning of the 1st, a packed program, and a group departure on the evening of the 4th. You can't drag things out even half an hour beyond the allotted time, let alone a whole day. This demands much greater precision in organizational matters and schedule planning. If the train leaves at 6:00 AM, then the result of the last round must be ready no later than 5:30 AM, the money shoved in hand on the go, and the person thrown onto the train.
You gave the example of the Michurinsk qualifier. Let me remind you how it went — Stinger skipped the 1st round, barely managed to finish the last round with a taxi already waiting on the street, didn't lose a single game during the tournament, but ended up in 3rd place. If the CIS Championship turns into the same kind of mess, I'm afraid it will be the last such championship.
So don't puff out your chest like, "I'm such an experienced organizer, so my opinion is the only correct one, and everyone else can go to hell." You've organized other tournaments, with different participants and different requirements. The CIS Championship differs from them quite significantly.
Anyway, I'll go to that sanatorium tomorrow and check everything out
