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@JonoMarshall
You may be right about having more teams nowadays, but it's not certain.
The best team, or three, will qualify for the main event regardless of format, I agree it gets a little murky after the top three (doesn't it always).
None of the wildcard teams will do well in the main event unless they have super-human fitness, but – as with many things – it's the taking part that counts.
I was originally posting to primarily point out that the origins of the wildcard event were not first come first served, as you were.