no, he already is better than probably most posting here, and nothing will change next year ... we still can't take him to multiple battle roads and marathons to get enough cheap points to get an invite ... you must be one of those who are benefiting from this broken system and obviously don't want it to improve ... and don't worry, if nothing changes, my child decided to not play until it is fixed ...
I am a Judge. So the system neither benefits nor hurts me.
I do believe that the system should encourage players to play the game more. And I do believe that it should reward players that play well and in a lot of tournaments.
I think this year's system did a reasonable but not great job of doing that.
Is my system better than the current one? I really don't know. Now that BRs don't have a Top Cut, I think that BRs should give out one CP only to the Undefeated player, and no other CPs.
I think that Nationals should be worth more than Regionals, but should not be enough to singlehandedly earn a player a Ratings Invite to Worlds. Two or even three Regionals should not equal a Ratings Invite to Worlds. Three States should not equal a Ratings Invite to Worlds. 8 Cities, well, I'm not sure on that. It certainly shows mastery over a metagame over an extended period of time. But I'd like to see players display good results across multiple metagame formats.
Marathons help, sure. But they are not everything. There are quite a few players that earned Ratings Invites without participating in a Marathon event. They also played in every event they could get to locally.
I do know that the CP "fix" that you proposed is awful in every imaginable sense of the world. It removes incentive to play the game. It overvalues big events to an absurd degree. The last time this kind of thing happened was I believe in either the 2008 or 2009 season, when ELO was still the name of the game and the K-value of Nationals was a ridiculous 48. What that meant was that basically everybody in the Top 16 at US Nationals assured themselves of an Invite. Anybody who went Undefeated in Swiss assured themselves of an Invite. It was stupid, it was silly, and it was thankfully changed very quickly.
Big events are valuable. But so is consistent performance across lots and lots of events. The purpose of Ratings Invites have always been to reward those that are consistently good over a large quantity of events, even if they were not momentarily great. It turns out that it rewards both types, and that shows by your son's 42nd place in his age group playing in only 4 events.
4 events is not enough to show consistently good play throughout the season. It is enough to show momentary greatness. Your son was not great enough at those events, and was subsequently unable to reach his goal.
If you're 42nd, that means you're either in BC CAnada, or you're in Arkansas. Both are fairly heavy OP areas. BC is essentially Vancouver, right? There were 2 CCs, 6 BRs, an SPT and a Regional in BC last year. In Arkansas, there were 6 BRs, 3 CCs, and an SPT. Not to mention the two Regionals not too far from you guys (Texas and St. Louis). There were plenty of opportunities for your son to prove himself in those events.
He didn't.
So he didn't make Worlds.
As far as your son's threat to leave the game, as long as it takes people like you who refuse to follow SOTG and actually listen to others around you and respect the game like an adult is supposed to, then good bye. See ya! Not sad to see you go. Not at all.
