The beginning of the day was really tragic. While we were eating breakfast at 9:30 a.m. an information that the President of Poland, his wife and over ninety other people on board were tragically killed, appeared on television. .Igor Mazurenko hid his head In his hands, everyone were surprised by this terrible information. Now I can only offer my condolences to the families and friends of all the people that were killed in this tragic accident.
Everything was stopped according to this tragic vent, 2 days of the tournaments were shorten to 2 day as on Saturday the national mourning was announced. What is more, 214 competitors from 30 clubs from all-Poland had to fight off the duels for right and left hand on one day of the event. However Igor Mazurenko and his team withdrew and simply increased the rate and introduced additional tables. Together with Marcin Mielniczuk from the technical service and his terrific score system, with the cooperation o Piotr Szczerba (the main Polish referee), who had the really well trained 30 people team. Everything worked like a dream so that we could have thought that they had a month to prepare, and it was only one hour to introduce the changes.
In all it was the tournaments with emotions but also disciplined competitors. All that confirms that Igor and his team are the world leaders in championships organizing.
David Shead
Hospitally as a referee