I feel my best argument has been left out.
In the olympics some countries have more athletes competing for the gold simply because they have more athletes able to compete.
And why if the majority chooses(31) to let them play they are still left out because the vote outcome isn't differing enough? That doesnt make sense to me. Why even vote then.
I mean your doing a good job even bringing this up doc, but do follow up.
Heh, it's really not that good an argument, it's a completely different thing, sof can't be compared to athletics, because sof is a team game like ice hockey and in the ice hockey wc each nation only has one team. It would be different if for example we were to hold a 1on1 nations cup, or something like that. You should compare sof as a team game to other team games such as soccer and ice hockey, not athletics, that's a flawed logic.
And about that vote, like I said it's not working because MOST of the people voting are the ones left out of the primary cup, yes doctorfunk, there are less secondary teams, but probably all the secondary team players vote because they wanna play, and most of the primary team players don't vote, because they are already in the cup with a good team and they just don't give a fuck.
Didn't bother reading through the whole topic, but murdoc, thing is that if you let all the secondary teams into the cup, most of them won't have a chance against the primary teams. Perhaps NL2 would have, but thats really not enough in my opinion and it would result into a lot of boring 20-2 matches played ruining the cup.
The idea of a nations cup is supposed to be DIFFERENT ACTUAL nations versus each other with the BEST teams those nations can come up with. All these secondary teams, don't fit in that idea, those players in the seconday team should fight for their place in the primary team. If NL is the best nation, then surely they can win the cup with just one team representing them. I'm sure canada could come up with two awesome teams for the ice hockey world championships, but that just wouldn't be fair.