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= Twenty-fifth Music World Cup qualification =

The 25th Music World Cup qualification was the qualifying process which decided the 31 teams that would join Australia, who received an automatic spot, at the World Cup.

The qualification process gives four automatic slots to Africa, six to the Americas, four to Asia, fourteen 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.

No new teams debuted in this qualification, however two were removed: Israel was banned for 10 editions due to the Israel-Palestine war, and Wallis and Futuna was removed from the qualifier for lack of participating albums that led to their walkout in the previous qualifier.

The most notorious teams that didn't qualify were Iceland, Zambia, Colombia, Senegal, Poland, India, Netherlands and Mexico, and only one country qualified for the cup for the first time, that being Burkina Faso, who got the very last vacancy for the cup, as the third placer of the intercontinental play off. Other potential debuting countries that went far but didn't make it were Rwanda, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Curaçao, Monaco and Estonia.

Africa
The african qualification happened in five stages, the first one between just the ten lowest-populated countries in africa (excluding Cape Verde, since it qualified to the world cup before), with the remaining countries only joining in the second stage.

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

Second stage
The second stage consists of twelve groups of four, where the best performing country of each group gets qualified to the third stage.

Seeding and drawing
Four pots were filled with twelve countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the african ranking and then, population.

Game results
The games behaved as the following: The countries get both placed in their respective charts in RateYourMusic, then a random album from 1 to 50 is picked.

Third stage
The third stage saw four african teams qualifying to the world cup plus one more moving to the intercontinental play-off.

Seeding and drawing
For the third stage, all qualified teams were split for a last time in two pots, organized by the same criterias of before, after, they were divided in two groups of five.

Game results
The games behaved as the following: The countries get both place in a singular chart in RateYourMusic, then a random number from 5 to 15 gets raffled, then, the result of this first raffle is the quantity of numbers that will be picked in a second raffle from 1 to 100, and the country with the most landing spots in the charts win.

The two best performing countries of each group qualify to the world cup, the third placers of each group move to the fourth stage.

Fourth stage
For the fourth and final stage, the third places participate in a duel together, with the winner being qualified to the intercontinental play off.

Americas
The american qualifier happened in three stages, the first one featuring only the eight lowest populated nations and all the others joining for the second stage.

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

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

Seeding and drawing
Four pots were filled with twelve countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the american ranking and then, population.

Group stage
The games behaved as the following: The countries get both placed in their respective charts in RateYourMusic, then a random number from 2 to 6 gets raffled, then, the result of this first raffle is the quantity of numbers that will be picked in a two raffles from 1 to 50, one for each country, and the country that has the largest score average wins the match.

Third stage
In the third stage, the teams were divided in three groups of three groups of four, with the two best teams of each group qualifying to the world cup, plus the best third place qualifying to the intercontinental play-off.

Seeding and drawing
Four pots were filled with three countries each, with the same criterias as the second round.

Asia
The asian qualifier happened in two stages, being the only continent with no first stage dedicated to lower population nations.

The qualifier didn't feature the presence of Israel, which was banned due to the Israel-Palestine war.

First stage
For the first stage, all teams were divided in nine groups of five, with one team of each qualifying to the second stage

Seeding and drawing
Four pots were filled with nine countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the asian ranking and then, population.

Game results
The games behaved as the following: The countries get both placed in their respective charts in RateYourMusic, then a random number from 2 to 6 gets raffled, then, the result of this first raffle is the quantity of numbers that will be picked in a two raffles from 1 to 50, one for each country, and the country that has the largest score average wins the match.

Second stage
For the second stage, all qualified teams were put in a singular group, with the four best performing teams qualifying to the world cup and the fifth place moving to the intercontinental play off.

Game results
The games behaved as the following: All countries but one play in matches, with one album per country being raffled, and the album with the highest rating receives a maximum of 7 points, with each subsequent country receiving one less point until the last place, that receives no points. In case of ties, both teams receive the highest number of points the tied countries could receive. (For example, if the 4th and the 5th place tie, both received 4 points, as that's the score the 4th placed would've received.)

The four best performing teams get qualified to the world cup, and the fifth place moves to the intercontinental play-off.

Europe
The european qualifier happened in four stages, the first one only for the twelve less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining in the second stage.

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

Second stage
For the second stage, the countries were divided in eight groups of six, with the three best teams of each group moving to the third stage.

Seeding and drawing
Six pots were filled with eight countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the asian ranking and then, population.

Game Results
The games behaved as the following: The countries get both placed in their respective charts in RateYourMusic, then a random number from 2 to 6 gets raffled, then, the result of this first raffle is the quantity of numbers that will be picked in a two raffles from 1 to 50, one for each country, and the country that has the largest score average wins the match.

Third stage
In the third stage, the teams are divided into six groups of four, with the two best teams of each group qualifying to the world cup and the third placers being compared

Seeding and drawing
Four pots were filled with six countries each, with the same criterias as the second round.

Best third placers
After the matches, the third placers get compared, with the two best ones getting a direct slot to the world cup and the third best third place moving to the intercontinental play off.

Oceania
The oceanic qualifier was divided in two stages, the first one featuring only the eight less populated countries participating, with the remaining countries only joining in the second stage.

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

Second stage
The second stage 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.