CIS Club Championship 2010-2011

Vova, no offense, but as usual, it's a lot of rambling and ultimately meaningless. It's just pointless chatter, comparing apples to oranges. All the questions you raised about Krasnodar and the like have already been discussed. No one is dwelling on the past; the focus is on current issues and new trends. As for tournaments, why don't you organize one yourself, and then point fingers? You had the opportunity – in a multi-million city like Moscow, only 6 people showed up for the tournament. Isn't that sad? It was sad for me. What "revival" are you talking about? No one cares about it anymore. To talk about a revival, you need to work towards it, not just talk. With the current trends, this is probably one of the last major tournaments. Belarus didn't even hold qualifiers, and only 4 people played in King's Tournament... In Dnipro, there were 8 participants, and they came from different cities. The main reason more people didn't come was the lack of motivation – traveling to Michurinsk is a long, expensive, inconvenient, and slow option. I offered to transport the finalists to the final even before the qualifiers, but even that turned out to be impossible. Let's say 12 people come to the final; is that significantly more than the number of participants in the Dnipro qualifier? No. For the scale of the CIS, even 16 isn't a significant number. Those who can will come. In that case, I don't see the point in holding qualifiers. Everyone already knows approximately who plays at what level. This farce about the "elite" nature of the tournament is no longer needed by anyone, and even less so next year. If someone doesn't have the opportunity to hold a qualifier, then quotas should be given to those who deserve them, according to the opinion of most of the finalists. The Belarusians, Stinger – what kind of final is it without Artem? Does anyone doubt his ability to win the tournament? If strong players can come, they should be given the opportunity to come and play. That's at least some kind of revival. And when there are so many people who want to participate that there's an overflow, then we can hold qualifiers.