When I set up the rules for this blog, I hadn't predicted the dangers that would be posed towards the whole of society. These dangers forced this blog to become political, but since I have written enough to make my position on them clear, I am returning to my original line.
So, I have my own idea for replacing UEFA's version of Nations' League. Rather than the 55 countries we all know of, my version has exactly 100. Before anything else, a classification process will have to be carried out, so that each of these countries ends up in the fairest division possible. However, due to the very high number of countries, they will have to be separated in "West path" and "East path".
"West path" includes 80 of these 100 countries. These will be classed in four divisions, of which the first three will have 16 countries each and the last one will have 32. Therefore, the classification process will consist of 8 groups of 10 countries each. So, from each of these groups, the top 2 go to Division A, the 3rd and 4th positions to Division B, the 5th and 6th to Division C and the rest to Division D.
"East path" includes the rest 20 countries. These will be classed in two divisions, of which the first will have 8 countries and the second one 12. The classification process will consist of 2 groups of 10 countries each, with the top 4 of each going to Division A and the rest to Division B.
As I am typing this, I have already planned out these classification process groups, so here they are.
"West path" group 1: Ireland, Basle Country, Carinthia, Hesse, Luxembourg, Rhineland Palatinate, Styria, Vienna, Asturias, Extremadura
"West path" group 2: Northern Ireland, Bavaria, England, Holstein, Mecklenburg, Saarland, Thurgovia, Vorarlberg, Balearic Islands, Galicia
"West path" group 3: Scotland, Belgium, France, Inner Rhodes, Monaco, Salzburg, Thuringia, Westphalia, Basque Country, La Rioja
"West path" group 4: Wales, Berlin, Fribourg, Jura, Netherlands, Saxony, Tyrol, Zoug, Canary Islands, Madrid
"West path" group 5: Anhalt Saxony, Bern, Geneva, Liechtenstein, Neuchatel, Schaffhouse, Upper Austria, Zurich, Cantabria, Murcia
"West path" group 6: Argovia, Brandenburg, Glarus, Lower Austria, Nidwald, Schwyz, Uri, Andalusia, Castile and Leon, Navarre
"West path" group 7: Baden Wurttemberg, Bremen, Grisons, Lower Saxony, Obwald, Soleure, Valais, Andorra, Castilla La Mancha, Portugal
"West path" group 8: Basle City, Burgenland, Hamburg, Lucerne, Outer Rhodes, St Gall, Vaud, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia
"East path" group 1: Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Albania, Malta, San Marino, Bulgaria, Hungary, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
"East path" group 2: Greece, Faroe Islands, Iceland (well, this is geographically west, but had to go with the Nordic countries' subgroup which ended up in the "East path"), Sweden, Italy, Romania, Ticino, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia
The classification process is of course an one-time procedure. From then on, there will be promotions and relegations between the divisions of each "path". I am just doing this for fairness.
"West path" Division A: 4 groups of 4 teams. The winner of "West path" classification group 1 will go to Division A group 1 slot 1, the winner of "West path" classification group 5 will go to Division A group 1 slot 2, the runner-up of "West path" classification group 2 will go to Division A group 2 slot 3, in general none of the division group slots will be filled at random (this last thing goes for all divisions of both paths). Group winners will go to the title playoffs (single semifinals and final). Last place of each group will be directly relegated to the same group number of Division B.
"West path" title playoff consequences: the losing semifinalists will go to the preliminary round of the competition's general title playoffs. A 3rd-place match will determine the exact slot each of them will have there (they will both be unseeded, but the 4th-placer will face the "East path" losing finalist). The title winner will take slot 2 in the general title playoff semifinals.
"West path" Division B: 4 groups of 4 teams. Group winners are directly promoted to the same group number of Division A. Last places are directly relegated to the same group number of Division C.
"West path" Division C: 4 groups of 4 teams. Group winners are directly promoted to the same group number of Division B. Last places are directly relegated, but the group each of them goes to depends on Division D promotion finals (more details in the Division D paragraph).
"West path" Division D: 8 groups of 4 teams. Group winners go to the promotion finals (single matches where group 1 winner faces group 8 winner, group 2 winner faces group 7 winner and so on). Winners of these finals get promoted to Division C, with the group number depending on the finalist with the lowest group number in each of the finals. The promoted team is therefore directly exchanged with the relegated team of that group, so Division D may turn out to be something of a shuffler.
"East path" Division A: 2 groups of 4 teams. Group winners go to the title final (single match). Last places go to the divisional playoffs (more details in the Divisional playoffs paragraph).
"East path" Division B: 3 groups of 4 teams. Top 2 of each group go to the divisional playoffs.
Divisional playoffs: two knockout brackets of 4 teams each (single semifinals and finals). Division A group 1 last place and Division B group runners-up go to Bracket A, of which the winner ends up in Division A group 1 slot 4. Division A group 2 last place and Division B group winners go to Bracket B, of which the winner goes to Division A group 2 slot 4.
General title playoffs: a knockout bracket with a preliminary round of 4 teams, semifinals and a final (single matches all of them). The winning country of this bracket's final is crowned champion.
Knockout matches can have extra time, but not penalty shootout. Instead, if after extra time there is still no winner, the unseeded team (left side of the pair as the matches are single) qualifies.
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