>>I don't know about that. There aren't any other teams in the world that can match american baseball, basketball, or football teams. Even if these teams participated in the series they would be eliminated early on.
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>Well, at least, they would have a chance to participate.
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>Here, we have a situation where most of the planet is restricted to participate in a contest. I don't know. If I would have been a winner in a contest like this, how much power and recognition will this would have given me knowing that most of the planet was excluded from the contest?

That is a valid point. Uh, is there some reason that no one here is offering specifics? Why is everyone beating around the bush? What in the world contest are you talking about!? You know, the one genre of book I don't like to read are mysteries.