31-08-2011, 08:55 PM
Surely, only games that have a bearing on the outcome of the individual sections should be used on a "live" board basis, the quality or standard of the games in initial rounds is completely irrelevant. If I, as a no bad plodder wished to access congress action at the business end, I wouldn't be all that bothered which section the contestants were in as long as it was exciting and relevant to the places and prize money in their respective groups. In the early rounds more emphasis strictly should probably be placed on the higher sections from a quality point of view, but once the smoke clears, in the later rounds, any section that has the possibility of an exciting finish is the one to watch.