05-09-2012, 02:58 PM
Mike Scott Wrote:Its a shame that scoring appears to be on board score rather than on the team results. If its a team competition it should be the team result that counts - sure use board scores as tie break but there are teams that are strong because of the bond between players as much as their individual grades. When one player has an off day another responds and plays well. The team may not win 4-0 very often but they may not loose very often either.
In this event there are teams placed a head of Scotland but who have clearly performed significantly worse as a team - see singapore & denmark who manged only 2 wins each.
This changes every so often. It is the same as the Olympiad. Personally I think it should be Match points. A team could win every game 2.5-1.5 and not win and that is a nonsense
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"