Originally Posted by
Nikolay Noritsyn
I think the whole point is to avoid subjective criteria, and replace all with mathematics..a "very rapidly improving junior" is subjective. Also, I do agree its important to send the strongest possible team (and that favouring juniors with Victor's suggestions is likely to achieve that).
I don't see how 5 points per year can be too generous. I would support a (very) unlikely case of a 13 year old who is 50 (that is, relatively, a small rating difference..consider how many people support Razvan to play on the olympiad..when Sambuev was ~80 fide rating points higher) points lower rated then another candidate to play on the team.