15-06-2015, 09:48 AM
Just thought of another possible twist (for the Super Cup / Scottish Cup option) that might reduce costs even further and be even easier to administer by CS / travel to for involved clubs:
- Keep Spens, i.e new Scottish Cup (plus Rosebowl) final weekend at end-April (as currently) BUT stage on the Saturday.
- On the Sunday of the same April weekend, stage the first KO matches of the Scottish Super Cup (last year's Super Cup winner v current year's Scottish Cup runner-up / last year's Super Cup runner up v current year's Scottish Cup winner ... as in previous post)
- Two winners of those first (Sunday) Super Cup matches to contest that year's Super Cup final on one Sunday or Saturday in May (surely possible to schedule?!) ... say, at Edinburgh Chess Club ... lower cost venue and one that Scottish chess players really ought to make as much use of as possible (in my view) as it's one of the few real jewels in the national chess crown.
- Keep Spens, i.e new Scottish Cup (plus Rosebowl) final weekend at end-April (as currently) BUT stage on the Saturday.
- On the Sunday of the same April weekend, stage the first KO matches of the Scottish Super Cup (last year's Super Cup winner v current year's Scottish Cup runner-up / last year's Super Cup runner up v current year's Scottish Cup winner ... as in previous post)
- Two winners of those first (Sunday) Super Cup matches to contest that year's Super Cup final on one Sunday or Saturday in May (surely possible to schedule?!) ... say, at Edinburgh Chess Club ... lower cost venue and one that Scottish chess players really ought to make as much use of as possible (in my view) as it's one of the few real jewels in the national chess crown.