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Here is a suggestion for a modern Giants List
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Is anything stopping any one from running their own giants list? (Bob Koca)
Date: Thursday, 16 June 2016, at 2:23 p.m.
I have thought about this for 2 years. I even wrote down a couple of alternative ways to do it, and here is what I came up with that I think would be possible.
Just like the UN, you pick the top countries in BG that have an established Federation and a good number of players, possibly: France, Russia, US, Japan; England; Denmark; Germany;
You ask the board of directors of each of those federations to nominate two people to be on the "All Star" committee (need to give it a name other than Giant). It would be nice to call it The Giants List if the current people who coordinate that title would agree to relinquish it to this committee.
The people on the committee should be highly knowledgeable about who the top players are and not themselves be eligible to be called an All Star.
The 14 people meet by email and conference call and decide on a chairman...anyone who wants to be chairman volunteers and the group votes a chairman who organizes things.
Then the committee, under the leadership of the chairman, decides on the criteria to be called an All Star. Some suggestions is that they have played in X number of major tournaments in the past 2 years; they have cashed or won a certain number; they have recorded PR's that average no more than X; and whatever other criteria they think is worthy. For example, results in Masters events as well as Open should be considered. Also, and of course it is up to the group to decide, but I believe good sportsmanship should be considered an essential characteristic required to be on the list, and of course, anyone with a reputation for cheating or taking shots or abusing the rules or tournament directors or fellow players should be excluded from the list, but again, all of this would be up to the committee. I would also suggest that while PR and BMAB should be included and important in selecting the candidates for the list, tournament results and "how much they are feared as an opponent" should be very strong markers.
Once the criteria is set the group then sets a methodology for choosing who will be among the top 32 (silly to go higher than that) and what the order should be, and the group decides.
One of the strong values of the group is not to show favoritism to their own country. When the results are published, the criteria decided upon shall also be published.
After the list is published, the two players in each country will flip a coin to see which one stays for another two years and which one leaves, and the two players choose a replacement for the one who leaves. Every two years the elder member leaves and a new one comes on.
The previous leader chooses a leader for the next two years, and it cannot be someone from his country or any country that has had a leader in the last 3 votings. The first order of business after the new leader is selected is to determine a) if any of the criteria should be revised in any way, and b) if there is another country will a well-established federation that should be added to the group deciding the All Stars.
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