16 Groups of 3 teams. Teams will actually not play any extra games, even though the tournament overall will have more games played. Winning team will still play seven games and it'll be in the same length of time, 32 days, with same number of venues, 12.
Group stage will only be 2 games possibly with shootouts. Otherwise it could turn entry into the last 32 into a hilarious series of tiebreakers.
This sounds like a terrible idea.
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