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What if any one of those teams is no longer good enough to be sent to the Euros (through injury, a falling out, lack of progression, bike failure, they haven't played polo in months, etc)?
Let me take the horse and place it before the cart for a second.
If the actual problem is about getting an accurate ranking of teams, then perhaps we should consider the French approach, or ensuring that the qualification tournament is a two day event? Where did the spot allocation thing come from and why is it being pushed under the agenda of "this is how we will achieve a fair Euros Qualification process"?
Do those "top" teams even want to be given spots automatically? What happens if they refuse them? What happens if the additional spots are filled by teams that rank just beneath the previous cut off point? Who decides who can play and who can't?