As someone who plays regularly on the boundary between Tour A and B (we were up
and down like a yoyo last year) my feeling is that it's not so much of a
problem that teams from other countries play in Tour, it's that they get
preferrential treatment and only turn up for one event. Paddy / Seamus Murphy
are a classic example of the right way to approach the problem; Paddy earn
their place at the top end of A tour fair and square, same as everyone else:
they go through seeding and they turn up to all the tours and nobody can really
complain that they were cheated out of their promotion space / unfairly demoted
because of it.
In contrast, because of the way the points are worked out at tour, relegation /
demotion really is a big deal; A tour teams not only get more points, but have
the opportunity to play against top-level teams and really improve their game,
not to mention attracting stronger players with more experience. Having an
extra team show up for one tour, affect the seedings / schedule and then not
turn up to the remaining tour events is often a kick in the teeth for both the
team that lost out on that 16th place position and the ones who lose out on
valuable tour points because they faced a foreign uber-team early on in the
tournament.
I appreciate that there are UK teams that sometimes can't make all the tour
events; we're an amateur sport and sometimes you just can't get the numbers,
but to have no intention of going through the seeding process or turning up to
the other tour events is a whole different matter. If teams just want to play
one event, I'm sure there are better alternatives.
Magic
Strange Blue #20
As usual this is not necessarily the view of my team, but it damn well should
be.
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