86 is a good number of participants. I notice that these Dutch National Championships used almost the same format as at the UK National Championships i.e. three multiplayer rounds followed by the top 4 players going through to two 2-player rounds. I'd like to be able to make the UK Championship consist entirely of 2-player games, but this is not going to be possible because it would require too much space (or so I've been told). But I've made a small change for the better - this year the top 8 players will go through to three knock-out rounds in 2-player format.