What is the real major difference between a player with 400 championship points and one with 380? Both had very good season. Maybe the 380 plaer got donked more often then the 400 player? Why shoud all that work amount for nothing at the end of the year?
The real difference ? The real difference is the 400 has an invite and the 380. Everthing in this world has a limite. For 1 meter you can miss a home run, for 30 sec can mean life or death, 9 sec 58 you are Usain Bolt more than 10 sec no body knows your name, etc...
400 is the minimum, a lot of people can have more than 400 is they want.
What this thread is the same as saying that if you spend 16 year in a university you deserve the same diploma as the normal persons that do that in 4 years...
If the 380 player was donked very often, he might then have chosen another deck than RayEels or Blastoise or have build diffrently, it's part of the game !
What about the junior player who only gets to attend local BR an Cities but now States or regionals because parents either cant or wont take them to more tourneys. So it takes them 2-3 years to qualify for worlds why is there harm in letting them in.
It is true that there are 50% less juniors with invite and 20% less seniors in comparision with the masters. But if parents are not willing to let them play seriously, then they will not take them to worlds. The grinder is also a possibility to get the invite to worlds, if they are good they have their chances.
You say that worlds is for the best of he best. But it has never been that. It has always been the those people how qualified and are able to travel to worlds to play. each year there are many players who qualify for worlds yet do not show up to participate in it.
You are wrong. Worlds has always been a tournament for the best. Only the best at Nationals or the TOPx of each continent had a chance to participate.
The players that do not show up are mostly non-north american players, because an intercontinental travel is quite expensive for most of people. The system in this thread would only benefit to americans, and especially US players. I am not sure how interesssting would be a tournament with 80% us players.
Player qualify from contries with National Championship attendance smaller then a typical BR in the States. If a junior wins a National Championship invite by going 3-1 are they really more deserving then a player who only gets to or 6 events a year. But does extreamly well at them and gathers 400 points over 2 or 3 years?
In the US you have more tournaments in a single state than most of the countries in the worlds. It means more chances to have the points. SPT does not even exists in Europe for example. Also a bigger attendance at tournaments means also more Championship Points to be given, that means that for lower junior attendance only a very few will get points. Not talking about that fact that US has Last Chance Championship Points and the other countries not.
It is already too easy for American players to get the points, and the statistics are there :
http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2445645#post2445645
You talk about juniors? Then there you will find that even if National are coming to an end in all the countries, and it has not even started in US, US juniors represent almost 50% of the players with an invite. I don't even mention that fact that most of non-North-American juniors will not come due to the high cost of travel.
Seniors ? Almost 50% too. Masters ? Roughly 25%. And with the national and last chance CP coming, this numbers will significally grow for the US. Also don't forget that at the grinder, most of players will be also North-Americans, due to the geographic proximity.
With your suggested system it would make Worlds more American than ever, and I am not sure that it is for the interesst of the competition.
Each year at worlds there are players who go 0-2 or 0-3 and drop. I am fairly certain that if it took a player multiple years to make it into worlds they would not take the experience for granted and would finish the event. Even if their start was less then optimal.
Players come to worlds and dream to be Champion. After three losts the dream is over. Some people do not accept the defeat as good as you.
Even I hope to make topcut, I know how difficult it is. But I would never drop ! SPAAAAAAARTA !!!