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= Twelfth Music World Cup qualification =

The Twelfth Music World Cup qualification was the qualifying process which decided the 27 teams that would join Australia, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States, who received an automatic spot, at the Twelfth Music World Cup.

The qualification process gives four automatic slots to Africa, six to the Americas, three to Asia, fifteen to Europe and one to Oceania, plus, one team of each continent is allowed to participate of the intercontinental play-off, which gives slots to three of them.

Africa
The african qualification happened in five rounds, the first one between just the ten lowest-populated countries in africa, with the remaining countries only joining in the second round.

First round
The first round of the African qualifications features the ten african countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Second round
The second round consists of twenty five matches envolving the five qualified countries from the first round plus all fourty-five other countries participating.

Seeding and drawing
In the first pot, all nine previously qualified countries were featured in, following that, the pots were filled by country population.

Third round
For the third round, all qualified teams were split for a last time in five pots, again with the same criterias as before, but now, they were divided in five groups of five.

Seeding and drawing
The pots kept with the same criteria of division as before.

Game results
The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty times, each album giving one point to its parent country. Five additional raffles are made in case of a tie.

The best performing team of each group would be compared, with the overall best performing team being qualified directly to the world cup and the remaining four winners going to the fourth round.

Fourth round
For the fourth and final stage, the lesser perform winners of each group would play a short bracket, except the loser of each match goes to the final, with the winners going to the world cup and the loser of both matches going to the intercontinental play off.

Americas
The american qualifier happened in three rounds, the first one featuring only the thirty-two lowest populated nations and all the others joining for round two.

First round
The first round of the American qualifications features the thirty-two countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Second round
The second round features the winners of the first round plus all the other american countries.

Seeding and drawing
The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Group stage
The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty times, each album giving one point to its parent country.

Only the best performing team of each group gets qualified to the third stage.

Third round
In the third round, the same group proccess happens between all eight participants, this time, expanding from thirty to fifty picks, with the three best performing teams being qualified to the world cup and the fourth place moving to the intercontinental play off.

Asia
The asian qualifier happened in four rounds, the first one only for the eighteen less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining form the second round onwards.

First round
The first round of the Asian qualifications features the eighteen asian countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Second round
For the second round, all teams were split in six pots, again with the same criterias as before, but now, they were divided in six groups of six, where the two best performing teams of each group would be qualified to the third round.

Seeding and drawing
The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Group Stage
The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty five times, each album giving one point to its parent country.

Third round
For the third round, the countries were divided in three groups of four, with the winner of each group being qualified to the world cup and the runner up being compared in the classification round.

Seeding and drawing
The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Classification
Finally, after all the groups are done, the runner ups are all compared based on their campaign in the second and third rounds, the overall best performing team moves to the intercontinental play off.

Europe
The european qualifier happened in three rounds, the first one only for the ten less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining form the second round onwards.

First round
The first round of the european qualifications features the ten european countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Second round
For the second round, the countries were divided in twelve groups of four, with the winner of each group being qualified to the cup and the runner ups moving to the third round.

Seeding and drawing
The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Third round
For the third and final round, only the runner ups moved to it, they were put in four pots, again, organized by the same criteria, where they would go in one-way matches against each other, this would have two rounds, with six teams being eliminated in the first, and three more in the second. The three teams that won go to a qualification round

Qualification round
In the qualification round, the winners of the third round matches had their campaign compared, the two best performing teams overall are qualified to the world cup and the worst performing one moves to the intercontinental play-off.

Oceania
The oceanic qualifier was divided in two rounds, the first one featuring only the fourteen less populated countires participating, with the remaining countries only joining in the second round.

First round
The first round consisted of one-way matches between the countries, where the winner is qualified to the second round.

Second round
The second round consisted of a four team bracket, with the winner qualifying to the intercontinental play off. To determine the matches, the countries were placed in four pots of four countries, with the standard organization method.

Seeding and drawing
The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Intercontinental play-off
The intercontinental play-off consists of one team of each continent that barely qualified to have a second chance in doing so, with that, all five teams are placed in a group where the three best performing teams get qualified to the world cup.

Qualification
Unlike most of the group stages in the qualification, this group was played in the classic format of duels.