Dear friends,

Thank you all for your feedback. We have received 755 answers in a week! It shows us that you are really interested in what we have been doing for you.

Here is a summary.

Q1. Are you satisfied with zonal tournaments introduced in 2018-2021?

YES – 663; NO – 92; No answer – 0.

Q2. Do you have enough zonal tournaments to play in?

YES – 493; NO – 262; No answer – 0.

Q3. Do you believe we should introduce new zonal tournaments?

YES – 524; NO – 199; No answer – 32.

Q4. Would you like to play in new zonal team tournaments for clubs, institutions, companies, groups of individuals?

YES – 467; NO – 264; No answer – 24.

Q5. Would you like to play in new zonal tournaments played by the Silli system?

YES – 324; NO – 377; No answer – 54.

Q6. Would you like to play in new zonal rapid tournaments?

YES – 263; NO – 462; No answer – 30.

Q7. Would you like to play in new zonal memorial tournaments (in two stages)?

YES – 488; NO – 225; No answer – 42.

Q8. Would you like to play in new zonal GrandPrix tournaments (a series of qualifying tournaments with the Final of 11-17 players)?

YES – 541; NO – 183; No answer – 31.

Q9. Would you like to participate in new zonal tournaments for ELO specific groups, e.g. for players rated to 2000-2300, 2300-2400, 2400-2500 and 2500+?

YES – 562; NO – 170; No answer – 23.

Q10. Would you like to play in new tournaments with money prizes?

YES – 407; NO – 317; No answer – 31.

Q11. What do you think about new EU zonal titles? Would you like to achieve some kind of them?

YES – 432; NO – 288; No answer – 35.

Once again thank you for your feedback!

We are going to continue our work on introducing new zonal tournaments and implementing them in a calendar.

Andrey Pavlikov, Zonal Director