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<blockquote data-quote="Patchey" data-source="post: 607420" data-attributes="member: 61403"><p>I think you'll find it was a *World* war because it was fought across every inhabited continent on the planet. By your logic the Napoleonic Wars should acrually be called 'world wars' as they were fought by most of the world's dominant powers, despite being in a fairly geographically constrained conflict.</p><p></p><p>And the same applies to the Rugby WORLD Cup (see how I linked that little rank back to the topic?), if it isn't a tournament that is representative of world rugby it isn't really a WORLD cup. There is a good argument to be made that the format for qualification could be different or that a second tier version for countries that fail to qualify would be a good idea. However in terms of allocations per continent there isn't much to say IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Patchey, post: 607420, member: 61403"] I think you'll find it was a *World* war because it was fought across every inhabited continent on the planet. By your logic the Napoleonic Wars should acrually be called 'world wars' as they were fought by most of the world's dominant powers, despite being in a fairly geographically constrained conflict. And the same applies to the Rugby WORLD Cup (see how I linked that little rank back to the topic?), if it isn't a tournament that is representative of world rugby it isn't really a WORLD cup. There is a good argument to be made that the format for qualification could be different or that a second tier version for countries that fail to qualify would be a good idea. However in terms of allocations per continent there isn't much to say IMO. [/QUOTE]
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