I like the idea. What I would change is having just the top team in each preliminary pool make it to the main tourney, making it an eight team tournament like in the 2004 version. I feel with two teams with each pool entering you're going to get two teams that probably shouldn't be there.
In any case this is better than the new format. Don't like the gimmick teams at all, it makes the tournament feel less important. With the preliminary tournament idea I don't mind it because you don't have to watch it if you don't want to.
My other idea would be to just have Switzerland and Slovakia as the other two teams added to the six.
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