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Solomon said:
I think whoever did the seeding was smarter this year in comparison to last year. The way the brackets are set up this year, USA and England A have a chance of facing each other in the finals. Last year I think they met in the quarter finals.

I'm surprised that Taiwan doesn't have both Ko Pin brothers representing. The two of them would have been a force to reckon with.
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USA v England A would be great final. Azb server will crash for sure
The Kos play 1 year and got to semi. They rotate combos and had different teams every year with Ko and his buddy Chang JL playing twice reaching semis both times.:wink:
 
No offense but the team from China should be Wang Can and Wu. Does anyone know if certain teams are required to alternate at least 1 person each year? Also, what is the selection process like for choosing players for a team?
 
Kris_b1104 said:
No offense but the team from China should be Wang Can and Wu. Does anyone know if certain teams are required to alternate at least 1 person each year? Also, what is the selection process like for choosing players for a team?
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England A had the same team last year. So did Holland. So did Germany. So did Greece. So did Finland. So did Austria. So did Russia. So did France. So did India. So did Qatar.
 
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Kris_b1104 said:
Yeah I know, so did Holland and Finland. I said certain teams. Who gets to choose and how are they chosen/alternated?
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I know that last year Shane wanted Earl to be his partner. I'm not sure if Shane picked Dechaine this year, but I would assume so. I'm not sure how other countries decide.
 
Liu and Li are playing for China not Wu and Wang Can
How are the team decided ? Probably by countries association . They probably pick who is available and confident with playing doubles which is different ball game from singles . No WPA points for this
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Kris_b1104 said:
That is correct but unfair since England is not part of Wales. Great Britain is divided into 3 countries, England, Scotland and Wales. So why does England get two teams if they are separate? They're joined by land but are considered two separate countries, like USA and Canada. In the case of 2006, Wales was the hosting country but gave England two teams, which is an entirely different country. Guess there aren't any good players in Wales. Wales only had 1 team that year.
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I think England started and hosted it and they chose Wales as the venue hence it was England who has two teams not Wales.
 
molinatx4206 said:
That makes sense.... Still think should be a more fair way of letting a country have more than one team besides being a host country.
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By design they aren't looking to have multiple teams from the same country. In fact the whole point of this tournament is for it to have as many countries represented as possible, making it live up to the name of World Cup by having a true world representation there. The host country just gets a second team as a courtesy or privilege for hosting the event (which seems fair to me) and if it weren't for that there would never be any country with more than one team because that isn't what they want or the purpose. I kind of like this format for one event a year. Every country just sends their best two man team (we hope it is their two best anyway) and see who comes out on top. You also get to see some players/countries that you otherwise would have little or no exposure to.
 
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Kris_b1104 said:
That is correct but unfair since England is not part of Wales. Great Britain is divided into 3 countries, England, Scotland and Wales. So why does England get two teams if they are separate? They're joined by land but are considered two separate countries, like USA and Canada. In the case of 2006, Wales was the hosting country but gave England two teams, which is an entirely different country. Guess there aren't any good players in Wales. Wales only had 1 team that year.
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While Wales is considered a country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, of which Wales and England are a part as you pointed out, is also considered a country (per wikipedia anyway). I don't really understand how it all works (how can Wales be a country on its own but also be a part of another country?). Maybe one of our brothers from across the pond can explain it all to us. In any case, for that first event maybe the United Kingdom was technically the host and had the event in Wales (part of the United Kingdom). Or even as someone else suggested, maybe England was the host but decided to have the event physically take place in Wales even though England was still considered the host. While I don't know or understand the details, I do know that England and Wales are not like your typical two countries, like say the US and Canada. They are much more closely linked than that.
 
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