Hey
Thanks for the questions, I did see your other message just now. But I do have work in the day time and time zone does exist.
To answer your questions without going into full details as we prepare for the second round, I will try to summarize my answer.
1+3, is not that we don't care about willingness (enthusiasm), we were confident going into the Sweden game despite coming off of a CT against Russia and we lost to Sweden by 6 as a result, with less willingness. In order to make up the point differential and make the 2nd round (instead of playing scrimmages for the rest of the season), we need to first (to answer 1) beat Iceland around 50 points, hence the use of additional willingness.
As a result, we did make it out of the 1st stage by 1 (in case you haven't check the standings for the 1st round), partially thanks to Spain and Russia as well.
Now that we make it to the 2nd stage, I highly encourage you and your friends to join us in Discord if you want to chime in for game planning, even if that's something that you guys are not used to. I have always tried to keep the information open to everyone but participation is required before we can work together.
Feel free to ask any other questions.
Thanks,
G