With respect to you too Mike, my original post says it all really.
Just because the WPA (who took no leadership in reviving 14.1 except to sanction a great and true world championship) and a few followers (at least some who agree with them for the moment) don't want it to be the world 14.1 Championships, it still is, and history will judge it as so.
It is basically the same event that the WPA did sanction for the last 5 years, barring a few strong players as my friend Stu Mattana pointed out (they lost out by not playing, and actually Niels Feijen tried to get there but the hurricane prevented it) yet filled with many more of the strongest players.
Perhaps it was not the perfect event (who does promote the perfect event), yet I'm sure you and all rational non politically leaning people on here would agree the same about most past world 14.1 events, including ones that barred the great black players (James Evans and Cicero Murphy) from playing etc...
Historians of the future whose judgement is not clouded by their political leanings of the day will indeed see this years DP event as yet another legitimate World 14.1 Championship, and even more so than many past world 14.1 championships.
So all I'm really highlighting is that we may as well all admit and subscribe to the truth today, instead of waiting for a future date.
All my Best,
Max Eberle
Why does someone who disagrees with you have to do so because of politics? Why cant it just be because you are wrong?