It is common to read fantastic praise heaped on Pinoy players in the newspapers but here's one article that takes the opposite approach:-

RP chess squad doomed from the start

Our team to the Dresden Chess Olympiad was doomed even before it left. Its composition—from a faulty national qualifying system—and board assignments were pitiful.

Top officials of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP), led by Prospero Pichay and Abraham Tolentino, could not be persuaded to include veteran Grandmaster Eugene Torre in the lineup, and that presaged the sorry campaign of our team, once a board terror in previous Olympiads.

Torre could have held his own on board one against the chess heavyweights, and strikers, like GMs Joey Antonio and Wesley So plus International Master John Paul Gomez, could have gathered vital points in the lower boards. As it is, the team was reduced to being a mere scavenger picking up crumbs from the cruiserweights in the field.

Full article by NM Sammy Estimo of the Philippine Daily Enqurer HERE.