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<blockquote data-quote="Scan" data-source="post: 751802" data-attributes="member: 59246"><p>I'm pretty sure RWC 2019 is nailed down to have the standard 20 teams, but there was talk of an expansion for 2023 I think. </p><p></p><p>It'd be interesting to see a 32 team tournament with eight pools of four. There wouldn't even be a need for each team to play any extra games. There would be even more VERY one-sided matches though, not to mention the fact that it would be much harder to host. Still, it'd be great to see some brand new teams get a shot at a WC. Hong Kong, Chile, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Madagascar, Kenya, Germany, etc.... </p><p></p><p>Which brings me back to my original theme again: if ALL THREE Pacific Islands qualified automatically for the next WC (which is possible considering Samoa and Tonga are pretty sure to come third in their respective pools. It could just take one big result for Fiji) then surely the Cook Islands or Papua New Guinea or some team like that would get the Oceania 1 spot. That'd be kind of cool. They'd get annihilated but, it'd be nice to see a new team in there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scan, post: 751802, member: 59246"] I'm pretty sure RWC 2019 is nailed down to have the standard 20 teams, but there was talk of an expansion for 2023 I think. It'd be interesting to see a 32 team tournament with eight pools of four. There wouldn't even be a need for each team to play any extra games. There would be even more VERY one-sided matches though, not to mention the fact that it would be much harder to host. Still, it'd be great to see some brand new teams get a shot at a WC. Hong Kong, Chile, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Madagascar, Kenya, Germany, etc.... Which brings me back to my original theme again: if ALL THREE Pacific Islands qualified automatically for the next WC (which is possible considering Samoa and Tonga are pretty sure to come third in their respective pools. It could just take one big result for Fiji) then surely the Cook Islands or Papua New Guinea or some team like that would get the Oceania 1 spot. That'd be kind of cool. They'd get annihilated but, it'd be nice to see a new team in there. [/QUOTE]
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