At the 33rd World Othello Championships, the EurothFed has held a meeting with only one topic: the EGP Series format.
The following decisions have been made:
- The upcoming two years there will be an EGP series format of 6 EGP's per year
where both at the end of 2010 and 2011 a new European Champion will be crowned
based upon the current point system and counting the 4 best results.
- The current 12 organising countries have been divided into 6 groups of 2 countries, which are the following:
- Belgium / The Netherlands
- UK / France
- Italy / Spain
- Denmark / Germany
- Czech Republic / Poland
- Sweden / Norway
- Before November 21st - 20:00 (CET), paired countries could agree when they want
to organise their EGP (2010 or 2011). If no agreement has been made, the country
who will organise in 2010 will be picked at random. The other country in the
group will organise in 2011. Tom Schotte and the European representative of the WOF (Milosz Cupial) will conduct the draw by webcam.
- As soon as the 6 countries are known, the dates of the tournaments will be
picked.
- This system is a try-out. It will be analysed and evaluated at the end of the
2011 season. At that point the system could change again. If is decided to keep
the system, countries will be enable to leave the EGP series and other countries
could be allowed to join the EGP series.
(outside the decisions: it would seem logical that the 6 countries who are
granted an EGP in 2010, could pin their dates first. If other countries still
want to organise an international event, it would be better to await the EGP
calendar 2010)
Meeting summary compiled by Tom Schotte (minor edits by Geoff Hubbard)
