Should the Richardson Cup be FIDE rated?

[AndrewGreen]

This noticeboard is dominated by players of certain clubs and not others.

I am not sure that this is entirely true. Even if it was, it shows that a large amount of people are unhappy with the current situation. This does not seem right. I was simply pointing out that the current voting system is flawed and the poll seems to confirm it. An individual vote is clearly superior as EVERYONE has their say.

Many Scottish players travel down to the 4NCL at a great expense to just play a couple of FIDE rated games against strong opposition. Therefore, I think the argument that the Richardson is not worth FIDE rating due to it only being a couple of games is not fair.