Someone needs to dig in and write this up comprehensively for submission to front page.
Why isn't POP sponsoring the ranking invitees.
If it means more of them, I'm game.
more sales = more trips/invites. it has nothing to do with how good a job your country did at worlds. seeya!Listen people last year Worlds was in Hawai and he reduced to 64 for category because Hawai it`s expensive, i didn`t doubt in that but this year is Orlando, maybe i can pay my trip doing top 2 at Nationals or earning an invitation by rankings but we must don`t forget that Argentina did very good job in Worlds 2007 so i don`t know why OP don`t sponsored our country, i am not saying to have 4 pays trips but 1 at least. Seeya everybody!
I think they should pay the trip for some of the ranking invites. The problem by not giving all (or at least some) of the ranking invitet players a travel award will be, that not all the best players will atend at worlds..
I also think they should give out the invites after how good each country do at the latest worlds, or make a point system where a country can earn point after how good the players did at worlds.
Just a thought
Boy oh boy am I happy. If I go to worlds this year (ya right) it's only a few hour flight. Or a 23 hour drive by car. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have way more people. Many states have more players than most countries represented at worlds. The good Canadian players, the good Mexican players, had a better chance of making worlds than the good US players. Smaller countries, even easier. Some of the countries represented had 10 person nationals. You can't compare that to 400+, and the slightly higher number of US invites last year than other countries didn't nearly cover the gap of the US compared to the rest of the world in # of players. This year looks better.US players deserve to have a legitmate shot at worlds? Don't they have Nationals? Don't they have rating invites? What isn't legitimate about those? Every other country in the world has the same ways to get to Worlds. What is unfair about it?
We have way more people. Many states have more players than most countries represented at worlds. The good Canadian players, the good Mexican players, had a better chance of making worlds than the good US players. Smaller countries, even easier. Some of the countries represented had 10 person nationals. You can't compare that to 400+, and the slightly higher number of US invites last year than other countries didn't nearly cover the gap of the US compared to the rest of the world in # of players. This year looks better.
The US will never get a correct ratio of population/invites. That will never happen. Can you not be happy that our country gets 15-20 times what most other countries get? Oh, all my friends can't participate! BOO HOO. Get over it. Seriously. Play better next year and maybe earn an invite to play in a tournament that isn't EASY to get into.
Worlds isn't about you, or me, or Ives. It's about players from around the world coming together to play the only WORLD championship.
Be happy that Worlds is in our backyard this year. It's fairly cheap to fly/drive to Worlds and stay at the hilton (compared to what everyone else has to pay). We get to go and hang out and see all our friends even if we don't get an invite. I don't know about you, but I am excited about Worlds invite or not.
The US will never get a correct ratio of population/invites. That will never happen. Can you not be happy that our country gets 15-20 times what most other countries get? Oh, all my friends can't participate! BOO HOO. Get over it. Seriously. Play better next year and maybe earn an invite to play in a tournament that isn't EASY to get into.
Worlds isn't about you, or me, or Ives. It's about players from around the world coming together to play the only WORLD championship.
Be happy that Worlds is in our backyard this year. It's fairly cheap to fly/drive to Worlds and stay at the hilton (compared to what everyone else has to pay). We get to go and hang out and see all our friends even if we don't get an invite. I don't know about you, but I am excited about Worlds invite or not.