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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
As another side-note, I'm in no way criticizing MikeE even though I quoted his post. It seems to me like he was just explaining why 59 teams may have been selected.[/size]
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I'm definitely not above criticism but Nathan is correct that the purpose of my post was to give a possible explanation for 59 teams in the list, although even there lineskier has shown I was wrong!
I agree that it would be awesome to see the best 54 teams in New England compete in Boston* so I'm absolutely not suggesting that any pre-qualified World Championship teams should skip the event, although I believe some have already decided to do so for financial/logistic reasons.
* Based on proportion of teams attending, the average qualification match at the New England Championship should be as competitive as a typical semi-final match at a District event, and arguably better. How crazy is that?