I said something very similar to this to Bob Gillanders at the Canadian Amateur last week.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with either style of Canadian Open, but we've had so many "Glitzy" ones in a row...

I think we should encourage organizers also to either decide to make it a Norm event or not. And if it's going to be a Norm event, then sections and potentially 10 rounds are they way to go (didn't they always used to be 10 rounds long anyway?).