I understand the priciple but there is a bigger difference in playing a 900k Paskistan team and a 300k 9th place team in Moldova. I think that the Pakistan team has a real chance against the USA champion if he would pay attention to form
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I only think the B3 should be the best of the best and giving second place teams a chance would make the competition more competitive.
But this is the way the game is set so this is just an opinion.