osama bin haydn - When you refer to Team A and Team B, are you thinking 2 teams of the same skill level competing in exactly the same competition?

When I refer to an A-Team and B-Team I'm thinking along the lines of A having France's best 4 pilots and B having France's 4 second best pilots, with the 2 teams in separate tournaments. To me a World Cup simply means the very best from your country representing everyone in the nation against the very best from another country. Also, I just think to go through all this and see a France vs. France final would be a big anti-climax. Then again, this is all just from my narrow minded POV. I suppose you could easily avoid that by making sure 2 teams from any one nation would face each other in an early knock out stage. That could work. That way if France reach the final then it would definitely be with their best team. But I still think this should only be if they have 16 players who want to join in or something, i.e. so that they have backups ready.

Also, if you consider qualification for your nation a part of the World Cup competition itself, then just by trying to make the team you are taking part in this World Cup - just a thought as this is probably how things will go for me.