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Lebanon mother land of the phoenicians! 7000 years of culture and history and still BEIRUT is "PARIS OF THE MIDDLE EAST"
LONG LIVE THE CEDARS
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Originally posted by leoisiah View PostWorks for Europe because Europe is small. Countries are much nearer to each other compared to those in Asia. Because Asia is big, groups are much better divided regionally. Just to illustrate, Cambodia team might not want to travel all the way to, say, Oman for just a FIBA-Asia 'C' game. Too much travel expense but the rewards are just small.
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there is no more A and B division in europe, because teams are more equal than before.
if there would be aqualification in asia, it makes more sense for A and B division.
but only for one torunament, it`s quite equal. good teams have the security to qualify for the next stage and small teams have the chance to play big nations.
there would be no improvement for smaller nations.
you can see it at the women champs, where only 4 or 5 nations have the chance to play for one year in division A (Lebanon, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Thailand). And afterwards, they will mostly relegate to division B. The others will always stay in Division B (singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka......).
So, they could also play a torunament with all teams. It would be better than always China vs Japan, Or Chinese T. vs China....It is boring.
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