Mgt wrote:
I realise you don't necessarily agree with the argument for having qualifiers and thought about that argument myself, I just think the pdpa got it wrong in this occasion.
Letting the 24 spots be filled up by tournament winners when possible will improve the standard of the field IMHO. Plus it's a nice and unique way of qualifying.
They've improved the qualifying for majors in the last few years I feel with the new qualifying conditions for the European Championship and Players championship finals. It throws up more diverse fields and interesting seedings.
I'd go even further with the GSOD perhaps and let the seeding into the different pots be decided by where the tournament you qualified by stands in the qualifying list. So Rob Cross as WC would be number one this year, MvG as defending champion would be 2 etcetera. So a top player qualifying through a European tour or players championship event might end up in pot three (instead of pot one based on the OoM).
Think this could throw up interesting combinations in the group phase.
As a wade fan i would like to see him at the GSoD on the basis that he reached euro tour finals, losing one to mvg.
However that is not the criteria, and he knew that and had a YEAR to make sure of his qualification and failed.
Should failure be rewarded ?
Last weekend when Wade was in the floor champs that contained no Ando, MVG, Wright, Barney etc, and saw cross go out early , Wade was still awful and could not take advantage of it,
Same applies to gurney and Whitlock and the other "name players" that simply were not good enough.
That said not only do I not agree with 8 qualifiers, if I had my way I would not have the 8 bdo players either.
Uncle Barry should use the Olly Croft line and say "we dont owe the players a living".
i am so sorry for my actions these last ten years, i'm going through a tough time
