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@H-Bomb
I really think we need to change the system for next year.
We are only going to have more teams trying to qualify next year, and this year showed any of those 15 teams (and Bubonic Plays as well, if they had made it), could have finished top 10, no-one was that far off.
So that's only going to encourage more teams to enter next year.
15 teams is already a logistical nightmare, but if you push it into two days that's only going to make it worse.
In some senses we got lucky that it rained, no-one tried to take the court, but unless we start paying serious money for this, there is no way we could keep Newington for two days.
If you really want to keep the full round robin system, we need a location with more courts, that we can guarantee as our own, for 2 days. Maybe Brighton could do that, not sure, I can't think of anywhere else that can.
But if we have 20 teams next year, that's 190 games, you'd struggle to do that on 2 courts in 2 days.
While conceptually it's a nice format, we really need to look at the realities of the situation, and what is likely to happen the next few years.
I would really recommend one of two options:
French System: The teams who make it to Paris qualify for the main qualifier next year (with a 2/3 rule, if they can't fulfil that, that spot is lost).
The other teams play a pre qualifier, and the best X teams from that join the other teams for the main qualifier.
Co-efficient system: For every (open) tournament, players earn points (a system will be defined, X points for Euros and Worlds, Y points for UK Champs and LO, Z points for NS, etc). Points will degrade over time, and be removed after 12 months/18 months/whatever, so that the most recent tournaments are more valuable (so newer players aren't disadvantaged). Teams that want to go to the Euros add up their individuals points, and the teams with the most points qualify. We would need to define this before the Euros this year, to be fair.