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Originally Posted by browna
My guess is Vancouver and Toronto get more group games, and relatively less knockout games.
Will be interesting also as to how they divide up the pots. Likely now not two "minnows" in Canada's group, and a victory and a tie are likely required to advance.
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Seems likely. In 2022 7 of 8 groups the third place team had 4 points. So even if 2/3rds of the 3rd place teams advanced some teams with 4 points wouldn't have made it.
Of course, presumably the extra teams aren't as good, so that might create more separation between the good teams and weaker teams.