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I think there may be some wording issues that have to be cleared up. For example in Motion 1, it doesn't indicate how close the Canadian Closed can be to the Olympiad - for example would a CC three...

Actually the best way to identify rapidly improving young player is to measure the improvement in the 12 month period leading up to the deadline. Consider two juniors both at 2475 at the deadline....

Hal it is always possible to vote on the formula and have the number of points = X - and tweak X later in a second vote. As well Y could be the age - maybe it should be 20 or maybe 25 and not 23.

One possible issue of waiting until after the Olympiad is that the Olympic + and - points will be known and could affect people's voting - but perhaps no more so than people's bias towards giving...

I think the final rating at the deadline is fine. As Victor says players who are afraid of losing rating points should also be afraid of players catching them.

I think we vote on this at the next quarterly meeting, with the understanding that it will be in effect for the 2018 Olympic Teams.

The wording has to reflect that the Canadian Closed is held at various time of the year and not every year.

I think we have to determine how close the Canadian Closed would be to the Olympiad - 5 months like the selection rating ?