I really dont agree with this at all. Just because u get selected for your country does not mean you shud not be able to compete for Player Of The Series (which is potentially more valuable...remember the team even is played for pride rather than £ which is relatively low). The point scoring events are not fully open in that people that play for their countries are not allowed to enter them.
The S4 point scoring events WERE fully open as one could, if one was really serious about it, decline the honour of such representation and enter.
The price one pays for being selected is that you cannot score POTS points in events that are run at the same time.Being selected to represent one"s country is, of course, an honour and one plays for pride in the knowledge that it may disadvantage you in the POTS standings.
As a "devout Patriot", I would, of course, be happy to make that sacrifice.If points were scored for representing your country then you are disadvantaging all the other players in the Series as they CANNOT score points for those events.
Being "unfair" to the least number, if you like, is the best option of the two that were available in S4.
Ideally, of course, the World Team events would be held at a different time to the APAT World Champs Series which would solve the whole problem.