[David Lame]

I keep thinking about the anecdote, often attributed, probably wrongly, to Abraham Lincoln. The short version is

"If I call a tail a leg, how many legs does my dog have?"
The person he was talking to answered, "Five."
Lincoln responded, "No. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

I can think of all sorts of reasons why this two event model might be a good idea, but calling them championships doesn't make them championships.

ETA: And I suppose they could still be "northern division" championships or some such, but they can't be two world championships. They can't be two of the same thing that they replace.