Wipeout World Cup 2009

[lunar]

I`m not really involved in this, but this is how it looks to me: In any other World Cup, be it football, rugby, cricket or synchronized swimming, a nation enters one team which is made up of its best available players in order to see which nation can field the strongest team. Surely the Wipeout World Cup should be the same. You don`t get France B or England C in any other world cup because it`s an elite competition. If you get B and C teams its not really a world cup designed to find the best players, it`s an international tournament. I think it`s up to each country to decide its own selection process via competition if necessary. That way everyone gets a chance to play if they want it, but world cups are for the best players or they aren`t world cups. It`s supposed to be elitist. I wouldn`t have a hope of making any England or UK team, but c`est la vie, that`s the nature of such a competition. If I want to make the team I know what I have to do. Anyway I think if people are going to have a world cup that`s the only logical way to do it.

I might try and find some Italian heritage though. I always cheer for the Azzuri in football if England aren`t involved. Rom, does this count me as Italian if you are short of pilots?

I`d also like to add that complex rules and tournaments probably won`t work. In online competitions its hard enough just getting two teams together at the same time to play each other in a one-off contest, nevermind anything more complex. So a simple and "elite" world cup is more likely to actually work.