SELECTION CRITERIA to Represent MALAYSIA

Finally, after lots of discussion regarding this topic on and off-line a transparent Selection Criteria have been released by MCF.
Love it or hate it, at least there's a reference point.

Refer BlogPOST.

Compare the Present Criteria to the Previous MCF Criteria (refer BlogPOST).

Hopefully, the respective states' chess association can issue their criteria for state players as well.
Might have missed it but have only seen Selangor's CAS doing it. 

Personally, I feel that the criteria needs some tweaking.
Why?  Based on 2012 and 2013 experience of entering the kids for the year end FIDE-rated NJCC and Penang Open, they tend to lose substantial NR points when the  Jan-March NR is released.
Does this mean that the kids should stop participating in the NJCC and Penang Open to "protect" their NR when FIDE-rated events are few and far in between? ......emmm, something for the "powers that be" to consider.

Example:

*****  4Q NR  /  NJCC   /   PENANG OPEN  / 1Q NR  / Remarks
2013
hAnA  xxxx   /   - 17.22    /   - 23.96   /   1264   / No NR events to "cushioned" the drop
CP       xxxx   /   + 10.39   /   - 23.98   /   1201   / ***   ditto   ***

2012
hAnA 1264   /   - 30.43   /   - 35.17   /   1202   / Other NR events cushioned the impact of the drop
CP      1157   /   - 48.00   /   - 40.00   /   1189   / ***   ditto   ***

Comments to Follow.

The ruling re qualifying for "High Performance Events"  when a player is NOT from the "Current Cycle" National Youth Squad should also be tweaked.

For example, qualifying for the World Youth CC (re Section C - National Youth Squad, Items 7 & 8 ).
Why impose such a stringent criteria of only the individual medalist being able to apply?
In my opinion, finishing in the Top 10 of the ASEAN+ Age Group or, Asian Schools CC is a "pretty solid" criteria. Even if we send all our Top 4 qualifier from NAG, NOT ALL will finish in the Top 10...if ANY! After all, NAG is essentially a "Rapid" event whilst the ASEAN+ AGE GROUP & ASIAN SCHOOLS CC, the focus is on "Classical" even though the Rapid & Blitz is played as well.

In addition, the NR minimum ceiling requirements to participate in Developmental and High
Performance events will reduce the number of "qualified" junior players going for overseas exposure since they are not many(if any) FIDE-rated Age Group events in Malaysia. Even the state-level MSSM Chess competition is not a National Rated event let alone FIDE-rated. So how la?

Furthermore, the performance increase or decrease of a player is not catered for when the benchmark competition is either the NAG(usually held in the 1st or 2nd Quarter of the Year) and NJCC(4th Quarter of the Year).

How about cases where a player cannot participate in the NAG or NJCC due to a variety of reasons e.g. Illness, Flood/Natural Disaster, War/Security Emergency, Family Emergency, Representing the School/State/Malaysia for events, Interviews etc. How do we cater for them?