but

firstly, all should pay attention to the closing date.

(Two primary school teams wanted to register after closing date but rejected.)

secondly, I believe the organiser also have no plan to amend Rule No. 4.

(one team withdrawn early)

thirdly, it is always the case for the organiser to have a spare team so that they are able to have even number of teams for the competition.

Last but not least, there are a lot of issues for the organiser to tackle but nowaday, I notice that quite a number of players do not appreciate the effort put in by the organiser, what they want just simply to have more chances to play chess, to have better prizes and to complaint. This is also one of the reasons for less xiangqi activities organised nowaday.

From my own experience in Bishan, I am happy that members just simply join the internal competition without knowing the prizes.

We are not ready to organise external team competition with so many incidences happened in the last few years for competitions organised by other organisations.

We are trying with the 第3届碧山杯全国象棋个人赛曁第1届碧山杯全国选区象棋团体赛 currently for the team competition of non graded players to be held on 1 & 2 Mar 2008 for the 2008华族文化节. If we could handle it well, we may include graded players in future.

By the way, anyone notice the closing date is 30 Jan 2008 for 第1届碧山杯全国选区象棋团体赛 ?