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China always plays the WC, whats your point? Also, Australia get to the world cup repechage quite often, but failed basically every time, wouldn't you call that a fair shot?

Until the previous cycle it was never a fair shot; the European team got to play the African team first and hence TIE for free. Even now I'm sure most people will agree that it's a crapshoot. What happens if Israel doesn't make that comeback in the 2nd half against Taiwan? Then they don't even get to compete in the WC last season despite clearly being good enough (and going on to win the whole thing).

The format right now makes every other season irrelevant for over 75% of national teams in the game, and out of the remaining 25%, half of them still don't get to play the world cup proper. Don't you think this is a problem? The best teams will filter through to the second group phase regardless, but the first group phase should have a more diverse cast of teams to get more people invested in the tournament and their own teams fate. If nothing else, don't you think Europe deserves more berths? The max they can get right now is 6, and the 7th best team in Europe at any given time is still a heavyweight.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 11/30/2021 3:14:51 PM

If Africa was to be merged I'd put them in with Europe. Same or similar timezone, and the format would work out relatively okay: 8 groups of 7, top three advance to 4 more groups of 6, group winners from that contest the finals.

Guess they're staying in their own bubble for now then. Asia and America can't take them on board as then we'd have a prime number (29) and a tournament format is impossible.

4. Maybe Just one big NT/U21 called "Nations of Africa"?

This could work. Keyword here being could. My logic is that, if countries were small enough that they needed to be merged into one continental league for the sake of making the game fun, they're also small enough that it would be much more fun for them to compete as a continental team in national tournaments. Therefore, make a Nations of Europe/Asia/America team too whilst we're at it. At that point everyone should have a chance to be reasonably competitive on the NT stage, so both continental and world cups should be better for it. Just a matter of drawing up new formats once the merge happens (and do we make Utopia it's own NT?)

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 12/3/2021 1:05:22 AM