Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 03:39:27 AM

Quote from: KTChampions on July 15, 2022, 12:36:00 PM

I don’t see anything fair in this (adding Europe 3 teams while the rest of the world gets 13), the situation will become even worse than it was - the last team from Europe (which did not make it to the championship, roughly 17th in strength) will still be stronger than all the teams from some regions (which did make it to the championship). That's bullshit. I want to see the final part of the World Championship as a serious competition and not as an international festival.
And I also hate the format of the qualifying tournament in Africa when the teams are forced to play a knockout match. This guarantees that 50% of the strongest teams will be eliminated from the tournament. I think the selection system should be changed here.

Well.. somewhere you need to find a balance. Both the factors need to be considered. Stronger teams needs to qualify, and at the same time there should be adequate representation from all the geographies. In my previous posts, one of the options that I put forward was to have a global qualifying system for the second phase, rather than the confederation-based tournaments. The first set of 32 teams can be selected from the region-based qualifiers. But for the remaining 16 teams, there should be a global qualifier tournament. This will make sure that only the stronger teams get qualification.

Do you mean an all-against-all tournament with the possibility that, for example, all these 16 places will be occupied by teams from Europe (if they are better than the rest of the teams)? Maybe it would be a good compromise and I would follow such a tournament with more interest than the final part.