Quote Originally Posted by Félix Dumont View Post
You are right. I also received many complaints from parents. If I had known more about the tournament (such as the fact that the CYCC will be used to finance the CO, while the kids while have to pay thousands of dollars to go to the WYCC), I would never have voted in favour of it. But the solution to this might be to request all the details about a tournament when there's a bid.

Also, it is true that the original bid was on 3 days. But we thought they had changed it to 7 rounds after they announced that they will hold the tournament on 4 days. However, the last day is only for tie-breaks (?!).
I am not clear on why people would suppose that the CYCC would be financing the Canadian Open. Rules were put in place after the 2011 CYCC which limited the organizer's portion of the funds to an amount that would not normally cover the expenses of a stand alone CYCC put on in any major metropolitan area. Fundraising is pretty much mandatory and quite uncertain in these austere times. My understanding of the current CYCC is that the only benefit to the CO is the same as to the CYCC - being a lower overall expense for the site by scheduling both tournaments back to back. If anything this would tend to be more of a benefit to the shorter CYCC than to the longer CO which probably would already enjoy some discounts due to its length.