• I just read on two regional threads that "allowing automatic qualification of spots to some teams will make for a fairer Euros qualification tournament".

    Madness.

    In those terms, yes, it's madness, but the issue is how tournament formats affect the rankings of lower placed teams.

    If SB, NT, DR and Cosmic all play and qualify as expected, but there are 4 too many teams to do round robin, and hence you go with Swiss, then it will be pretty unfair on the 11th place team. Right?

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