As an option, all continents separately could play the same number of games using the Swiss system, followed by playoffs. This way, every team would have the same number of matches in the qualifying round plus the playoffs. There would be more interesting games between teams of similar strength. I’m not insisting on my first proposal — it’s just that right now, there are too many games that don’t matter and too many friendlies for those who didn’t advance to the second round.