>>>>How about all teams are allowed to compete?
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>>>The judges will have to judge all applications...
>>>Are you willing to judge 125 applications?
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>>I don't think there would be more than 15 teams...
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>If its the case, 5 teams will be eliminated in the pre-tournament challenge.
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>That was the same as any other tournament, only a certain number of teams are allowed to access the final run...

Ok, it's an olympic system. I used to play draughts (checkers) professionally, so I know all these kinds of systems...

BTW, team must be by country of birth or it could be by country of residence?