wolfking wrote:4. Game format. This is arguably the biggest difference between CWL and WAL or other traditional Go. CWL uses team relaying format.
This sounds really interesting, innovative and attractive to viewers.
5. To avoid competing and drawing two much resource away from WAL, top 70 players in official CWA ranking cannot be a playing member during regular season (many serve as coaches)
Good coaching must play a big role. Sounds really a lot like NBA format.
and only one for each team is allowed to play in the post season, unless the player is older than 35. So if you are old and still playing well you are more valuable to the teams.
So CWL is more for the upcoming players, then - makes sense. How do these relay games help the ranking of the individual players?
