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You don't want the qualification criteria to be too arbitrary, as it runs the risk of confusing a lot of managers if they are in the B3 when they weren't expecting it (or vice versa). It won't achieve it's intended goal either, as even league and cup winners may have sold up by the time the following B3 happens.

You might not be able to eliminate scrub/also-ran teams from the tournament entirely. All that can be done is to provide the best chance for 128 worthy teams to qualify, based on a consistent set of criteria that primarily rewards performance from the previous season (hence the transferring cup winner berth to league runner-up if one team does the double suggestion). World ranking is fine in some situations, but it is also based on 2-season performance, increasing the chances that a high ranked team is past their prime by the time they get the invite.

I agree : keep it simple and clear.

1) all reigning first division champions, national tournament champions, BBB champion, BBM 1st tier champion qualify. That's 126 teams at most, probably less.
2) make a pool with the runner-ups of all these 1) champions, add all former BBB champions, rank them by WR and take all the top teams to fill the 128 spots.


Fair and simple.

This is ok for big nations
For micro nations only 1 team to be considered

- Remaining spots will be filled with Cup, D.I, and BBM T.1 runner ups (using world rank)

Well done, that's the perfect middle ground between what I originally proposed and the status quo that some would prefer to keep. Win a trophy and you're in, come runner up and you might be in.

I don't think it's too short notice, we've got 4 weeks left to play and with this system everyone who would've qualified for the B3 as is will still qualify.