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<blockquote data-quote="riffraff" data-source="post: 807589" data-attributes="member: 74048"><p>For an international competition, how much does travel okay into the structure? It costs a lot to go halfway around the world, wears on the players, and creates a problem with TV viewers back home not being able to watch live. Having most of the games in one country makes practical sense. </p><p></p><p>When one country dominates like we see in NZ especially this year it does make seeding the tournament harder to do fairly, but as long as the tournament is large enough to include those teams they can still win and lead to a Kiwi final four. Allowing for home matches in SA and Australia in the early rounds helps keep those populations engaged, in theory at least.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the problem is in the scheduling of the crossover matches during the regular season. Could it work to schedule those matches based on seeding, either pitting the stronger teams against each other maybe intentionally putting the stronger against the weaker?</p><p></p><p>Just throwing ideas out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="riffraff, post: 807589, member: 74048"] For an international competition, how much does travel okay into the structure? It costs a lot to go halfway around the world, wears on the players, and creates a problem with TV viewers back home not being able to watch live. Having most of the games in one country makes practical sense. When one country dominates like we see in NZ especially this year it does make seeding the tournament harder to do fairly, but as long as the tournament is large enough to include those teams they can still win and lead to a Kiwi final four. Allowing for home matches in SA and Australia in the early rounds helps keep those populations engaged, in theory at least. Maybe the problem is in the scheduling of the crossover matches during the regular season. Could it work to schedule those matches based on seeding, either pitting the stronger teams against each other maybe intentionally putting the stronger against the weaker? Just throwing ideas out. [/QUOTE]
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