The CEB decreased the amount of players on the European Championships from 24 to 16 to make the EC cheaper and to get organisations easier.

What they forgot is, that if we play the EC with 16 players there is almost no possibility to come into the EC over the ranking - so there is no more interrest to organize an CEB-GP to get places on the EC.

The Ranking is going to be worthless and almost equal to the EC-Final Classement.
The only relevant factors are the national championships, but there is a big difference in quality between the participating countries.

CEB-Ranking on June 26th, 2008

 

CIBA-ranking: all National Masters with their percentage, 50% and above:

last actalized: Spanish Championships April 6th, 2009

rank
 name
national rank.
championship
percentage
1.
 Martin van Rhee
1
Dutch Masters 09
73,17
2.
 Haci Arap Yaman
3
Turkish Ranking 08
70,37
3.
 Xavier Fonellosa
1
Spanish Masters 09
69,56
4.
 Rob Scholtes
5
Dutch Masters 09
69,49
5.
 Serdar Gümüs
1
Turkish Ranking 08
69,21
6.
 Sander Jonen
2
Dutch Masters 09
69,15
7.
 Jean Reverchon
3
French Masters 07
67,88
8.
 Eric Daelman
1
Belgium Masters 08
67,06
9.
 Baris Cin
2
Turkish Ranking 08
65,86
10.
 Michaël Hammen
2
French Masters 09
65,70
11.
 Michel Parra
1
French Masters 09
65,23
12.
 Thomas Ahrens
1
German Masters 08
63,87
13.
 Kevin Tran
4
French Masters 07
63,41
14.
 Ahmet Oztas
4
Turkish Ranking 08
60,40
15.
 Jordi Oliver
4
Spanish Masters 09
57,81
16.
 Walter Bax
2
Belgium Masters 08
57,46
17.
 Jaume Norberto
3
Spanish Masters 09
56,34
18.
 Juan Carlos Cuadrado
2
Spanish Masters 09
55,91
19.
 Manfred Hekerle
3
Dutch Masters 09
55,44
20.
 José Asensio Mena
5
Spanish Masters 09
54,56
21.
 Willy Daelman
3
Belgium Masters 08
53,60