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Why are you arguing a point that I'm not even disputing Tom?? Did you misunderstand my post?

If you hold a competition year on year on the same date then people know who won it last time, people want to improve on their performance the previous year etc etc. It actually begins to promote itself. That's what I mean by goodwill. The larger pool community recognises it and accepts the competitions place in the pool calendar and other pool promoters don't use that weekend for their events.

This new competition won't have that history. It won't have an established weekend to be held on and given that London couldn't find a free weekend for another competition I wish you guys luck in finding one for an Open.

The point is that you had a weekend set from previous years Croydon Opens which was the second weekend in February (Europeans weekend). It's much easier to find a free weekend for a Closed Event than it is for an Open.