Split Champs assignment

[GuyM142]

Originally Posted by Madison

A nascent thought that popped in my head after seeing this announcement --

It seems that most teams from outside North America will be competing in Houston (e.g., Israel, Turkey, mainland China, Australia).

Will teams competing at that event have a more difficult time effectively scouting and understanding the competition and level of play of the teams that can expect to see given the geographic and lingual barriers than will teams competing at the other CMP event?

Teams from Europe seem to be both fewer in number and more likely to speak English, I'd guess.

That's true about the scouting, this year we had to do our scouting at the hotel lobby and it wasn't optimal.
But the difference depends on if the divisions are going to be published for both Champs at the same time or will St.Louis/Detroit get their divisions later.

I think that because of the lack of regional competitions in Europe the chance to see a European team in champs is lower. To compare, Israel and Australia for example will definitely send at least 6 teams each.

Is there any statistical data about the international teams in each of the champs?