For 3 months now, I’ve been writing my World League preview pieces to reflect eight teams being in the final. Three from Pool A, three from Pool B, one from Pool C, along with Argentina automatically qualifying as the host nation.
And, not to get too foot-stampingly defensive, but this absolutely was the plan at one time.
Sometime between then and now, it’s become six teams in the final, not eight. Two from A and B, one from C, and Argentina.
I don’t like that I’ve put out so much ultimately inaccurate content, but I don’t know how much it’s my fault, really. I can’t trace exactly when the plan was changed (or was the article I link in this post just wrong all along?), but it is what it is.
Two teams from Pools A and B, and one from Pool C. Actually it simplifies things a little. Brazil and Poland are now the clear favourites in Pool A. The revamped American team will have to play a little to find their footing as a team, and finishing ahead of Brazil or Poland is a tall ask for a new team. Russia and Italy are even more obvious picks for Pool B now, with Serbia pretty clearly one (albeit small) step down from them and Cuba’s roster being gutted. Pool C remains unchanged, and it’s the hardest to project, easily.
Now — the question is do I go back and edit the preview pieces to destroy the evidence, or just leave ’em be? Decisions, decisions…. 😛
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