This is a strong argument for having the national association choose the players with no predetermined criteria. When opponents can easily game your selection the only benefit is lost, which is supposedly fairness.
This is a strong argument for having the national association choose the players with no predetermined criteria. When opponents can easily game your selection the only benefit is lost, which is supposedly fairness.
yikes...just check after Australia, because of the Finalist position, Ito-Mizutani now have total 200 pts, and became top Japanese pair.Thats highly dependent on who JNT fields in world tours. Maybe to be fair they are giving each pair approximately 2 tournaments (idk just speculation). It's entirely possible for Hayata/Harimoto or any one of the Ito pairs to make top 4 if they are fielded consistently enough.
Quite true. To be on a level playing field (not even a lead) she needs to be 1300 pt ahead to counter for the potential QF finish of 1275 pts that Ishikawa & Hirano may well get in WC. To date she’s only leading by 965, which in the bigger picture, is actually tantamount to being behind.
With only 5 events left, running neck to neck is no longer enough for Ito, she needs to break out.
I don't really believe this sacrifice that many are thinking CM made, She was so nervous and kept making mistakes and looking at Ma Lin, I don't know why it seems like every step these players think or every thing they do there's always something sinister behind that, or there's an ulterior motive of some sorts, Can't people just see them as normal beings, It's sort of like a manic obsession with reading what's not there, and seems insecure. If China really wanted to be nice, they'd have told shasha to lose today and ding to lose tomorrow, it won't cost anything, It's just a open. Being professional and wanting to defeat your opponent now seems like a wrong thing to do, Why didn't anyone say Qian TY tanked for Hirano, or Jiayi for Into, They're the all glorious CNT they win when they want if that's what people are insinuating so the losses are driven then?.And now the race is heating up b/w Hirano and Ishikawa, due to China's "courtesy", Chen Meng's "sacrifice" and Ishikawa's "resolve".
Everyone on the CNT will be gunning for Ito from here on out.
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