Eligibility Votes - March 2022

[Willie Rutherford]

Very helpful post from DMB. I had not appreciated MT had been awarded SCO registration despite not meeting the national body's eligibility criteria. Of course, SCO membership, eligibility to represent Scotland and eligibility to compete for the Scottish championship should all be one and the same thing. If MT does not meet the criteria and if the membership prefer not to change the criteria, I would suggest MT must reconsider his position and reaffiliate with a country for which he is eligible. Given CS were in error allowing him to affiliate here in the first place, I would support CS covering his registration fees to whichever national body he chooses.

Likewise (I think) I understand it better now. Given the past "cock up" the options seem to be
1) Cancel MT's SCO registration, which may or may not be possible and also may leave him "stateless". I am not sure what the implications of that are, but probably not good for MT, who appears to have done nothing wrong.
2) Leave the status quo, unsatisfactory as it may be.
3) Adopt Proposal 2 and exceptionally give MT full eligibility. The only reason for this seems to be the past "cock up" which doesn't seem a good reason to me, compounding an error.

So I agree with George that 2) is probably best but CS should assist MT should he choose to switch to another federation. So I will vote against Proposal 2.

Typical of IM Bryson to come up with a move order finesse but yes maybe that does work.  

I also agree with Walter that the criteria themselves should probably be voted on, but it seems from DB's reply that has been done before. The option is always open for a counter proposal I suppose.