re: New CONCACAF WCQ Format

So to summarize:

1. Six highest FIFA ranked teams play a Hex.
2. #1-3 advance to the WC. #5 and #6 are dropped from qualifying. #4 is on stand-by.
3. Simultaneously #7-35 play a tournament.
4. Winner of that tournament plays #4.
5. Winner of that game plays in the intercontinental playoff for the possible 4th CONCACAF bid.

I appreciate that this ends the lopsided pre-Hex games and we can play better teams instead, but the treatment of #5 and #6 is nonsense.
- You could see a decent side slip early and have no shot at recovery and that #7-35 tournament winner be far inferior.
- You could see #5 and #6 be totally unworthy and just in the Hex due to FIFA ranking nonsense and force better sides to make a much longer climb against competition that are wastes of tune-ups.
- Particularly with Costa Rica's golden generation gone, #3 in Hex could look like crap by the end while other sides in the other tournament are coming into form and more worthy of a spot. The advantage of the Hex at the end is you usually end up with the teams in best form for the Cup.

The fact that a CONCACAF team can qualify for the World Cup by only playing ONE Top 6-ranked CONCACAF side (who by the playoff could be great or in disarray, who knows) is disgraceful.