Anyone's wondering who's the best at large?

China's Xiao Hui is ranked the 13th in the Men's single, but was denied to play at SC and Worldchampionships which have more than 100 male single players.

Xiao Hui collected 1107.9 points though just 5 tournmants. His points per tournament (222 points/tournament) could be among the top three.

Assuming that he understood the ranking system, wouldn't it be his own fault for not playing in enough tournaments? If he did not understand the ranking and selection system for participating in these tournaments, wouldn't that also be his own fault for failing to obtain necessary information?

I meant no matter how good one player's got, even ranked the first, there is still no guarantee that he's qualified for playing at worldchampionships.

Back to Xiao Hui's case, he's already listed 13th by the official ranking system which qualifies him as the seeds too. But China local badminton organization can still deprive his qualification. Same rule applies to Roslin too. If Malaysia local badminton organization had denied Roslin, endowed Yong Hock Kin, there would be totally legal.

Therefore, I don't think it gets any point blaming Xiao Hui for his not understanding the ranking system. What do you think?

Make the tournament a bit like one of the tennis tournaments or one of the majors in golf - for each event, the top 50 or 70 world ranked players get automatic bid, two or three players from each country registered for tournament that does not have players receiving automatic bids will receive bids and then open up 10-20 or so spots for players not otherwise receiving bids to earn in scaled down, pre-tournament qualifying event (one or two days long, a day or two before the main tournament).

This way, even if a player does not get along with his or her coach, as long as he or she lives someplace other than a country whose government has complete control over who attends a foreign tournament (whether on the national team or not), they have a chance to earn the right to play in the tournament, as long as they can find some way to pay for the travel and lodging expenses to attend the tournament.

It's not perfect, but unless there is some way to eliminate personal differences between players and coaches, as well as a way to eliminate monetary disparities between players, I'm not sure what else can be done.