Originally Posted by
roger patterson
The point of the Canadian Junior is to select a Canadian Junior Champion.
You may have other difficulties. As far as I know, the prize money in the last tournament was collected by the organizer as entry fees and some subsidies - i.e. was untouched by CFC hands. So, it might not be the CFC's decision to make.
I think if you talk to the higher rated junior players (and I've talked to one on the subject) - they would disagree with this statement. The person I talked to felt the tournament was quite weak with many of the strongest juniors missing and certainly nothing like the strength it could be. Those of us who remember the Closed tournaments of old would probably agree.
If you are going to mess with the structure of the Junior, probably, it would be better to consider why the tournament doesn't attract all of the strongest players or at least good regional representation.