Most of the 33 candidates are running nodes in more than one region. So we have enough nodes. I myself am running only one node, for example. But I am the exception.
Gotcha. I'm still just having trouble grasping why there might need to be such a big cut down on the number of elected individuals as KomodoPlatform mentioned. Especially when the number of candidates is significantly less than the number of available spots. And as you mentioned, some individual candidates are even running nodes in different regions to have those regions covered.
There are currently more nodes than spots.
Each operator can configure 1 node per region. Then they will be elected in the voting. Deadline ended weeks ago. Regions with more than 16 nodes EU & NA