I think we should respect the 2008 national competition result as well as....the top 4 ranked players in that competition. This year national open had produced the best 4 players in Singapore and they should represent Singapore based on that result. To ask players to step down and make way for supposedly better player is selfish and shown disregard for the national open result. And it is not guaranteed that the other so called "better players" can do better that the current 4. I understand that the current batch of national players had been trying their best to prepare for the upcoming competition. I believe we should give them the chance to represent Singapore and not try to apply pressure on them to quit. Afterall, base on this year National Open result, they are the best 4 players that we have this year.

UnnecessaryWhen piggy888 wrote the post, we could all understand he's talking about this year score not trying to underestimate all players in Singapore. Therefore I think the add-ons are quite unnecessary. Otherwise if people continue and continue to add on, the sentence eventually becomes something like this and even worse: . I guess you didn't play the tournament this year and missed a lot of fun. :P (more...)

senselesswhat jidu was trying to say is that the best 4 should be given the benefit of doubt and not by saying that the best 4 in the competition is the best 4 out of those that participated the reason is because of piggy's previous post of trying to ENCOURAGE and trying to tell people to suppport the national players. Here you are telling people that they are top 4 "only for that year" and only for "those that participated" can u tell me why this statement is necessasary? Do you have a better way of selecting the top 4? Maybe u wanna organise another national competition. All systems are flawed some have more some have less. Which is the best is still hard to say. This current system might be to a disadvantage to some stronger players but it has also a very good way of training the players mental and also helping players adjust to different systems more importantly it gives different players more opportunity to represent Singapore. I think people like ruizhan deserve some credit instead people are asking pe (more...)

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what makes u think that it will increase our chances?Specificed in my previous post. Being 2 time Singapore champion at that time who would expect the results hansoon produced? If a 2 time singapore champion can produce these sort of results, who can u expect to produce results? of course it's not his fault i believe it's about his form being affected by other factors. What makes you think that sending a better player would produce better results? Of course sending a better player would play a part but thats not the most crucial part. Speaking from past experience, Playing in an international competition wouldn't really matter much if your standard is more or less there you just need to have a weapon and must not be too weak in the other parts of your game and form is the key to sucess. i also agree with jidu that he said that they dared to play so those that did not play for whatsoever reason should not be taken into consideration thats why i say given the benefit of doubt. And on the trophy it does say QU (more...)

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