Read your post again. "3rd and 4th goes into the playoff" Not a non-entrant, right? It doesn't matter what would happen "IF they played": either anyone can be a wildcard or all wildcard slots are based on Saturday seedings.
I don't put Cosmic in 3rd and 4th, I place them in the automatic qualification brackets and hence they (the same goes for SB, GiW, DR would have been in but the teams are different now) need not play a qualifier of which the Cambridge tourney is. Check the EHBPC 2012, they are one of the top 4 UK team in an international tourney no?
Exceptions in professional sports too, in the UCL 2005 season when Liverfools won the trophy and England were given 5 instead of 4 spots for 05/06 UCL.
I don't put Cosmic in 3rd and 4th, I place them in the automatic qualification brackets and hence they (the same goes for SB, GiW, DR would have been in but the teams are different now) need not play a qualifier of which the Cambridge tourney is. Check the EHBPC 2012, they are one of the top 4 UK team in an international tourney no?
Exceptions in professional sports too, in the UCL 2005 season when Liverfools won the trophy and England were given 5 instead of 4 spots for 05/06 UCL.