Vartazian - isn't that a bit harsh? It's easy to say that when you have enough players yourself, but your own team has players from USA, Canada and El Salvador. Team Nordic isn't one nation, the Dutchmen have Connavar from Belgium. But some teams still couldn't get a full squad of 8.
Without the smaller teams there wouldn't be much of a competition. Without certain nations with affiliations joining forces and taking on players from elsewhere etc, the world cup would probably virtually be France vs. England.
Real life professional tournaments are different. This is a game played over the internet and people have real lives at the same time. We have to try and find some way to make this work. As I said, we can learn lessons from it and next time round we can do it differently, perhaps amalgamating teams with fewer players as a requirement or something.
I kind of agree that 2v2 is probably a little too far though. 3v3 should be fine. But I don't really want to start 'punishing' teams considering that this is a fairly loose and relaxed competition in general. There just aren't rigorous enough rules and procedures in place for that. Maybe in the future as the event develops there will be, but we're not at that point yet.