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Just one more thing about the qualifying tournament:
It doesn't decide which is the best team in London, it just decides who qualifies to Euros. The best team in London is probably BAD, based on their results over the last 12 months.
Given that the Euros are a high standard, high pressure two day knock-out tournament, the most appropriate way to choose the teams (if we do want to choose 4 London teams to do well) would be a high-pressure, high-standard one or two day knock-out tournament.
Round - robin is not the same, neither is the idea of having a team play their games BEFORE the rest of the teams (knowing results of other games can lead to stitch-ups between teams).
Tourney play requires that you are able to sustain intensity of game-play across a day, where as league play requires that you sustain intensity across days, weeks, months - very different.