The draw ceremony for the qualifiers was held as early as June 2065438+2009. By drawing lots, 24 teams were divided into East Asia and West Asia, and the two regions were divided into three groups. So far, 24 teams in the Asian Cup qualifiers have been divided into 6 groups to compete. According to the competition system of this competition, the home and away matches are adopted in the qualifiers, and 24 teams will play two group matches in three time periods: 20191,February 2020 and 20201. The top two players in each group will advance directly, and the third one will play in the group play-offs. The finals will be divided into two groups, each group including three teams. After the play-offs, the top two in each group will enter the competition.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the lottery results came out in June 2065438+2009. China men's basketball team was divided into Group B in East Asia. The other basketball teams in this group are Japanese team, China Taipei team and Malaysian team, and China team becomes the seed team. Because of the epidemic, the qualifiers were postponed continuously. It was not until 20021February that Group B of the preliminaries officially started. While China was fully prepared for the competition, other national teams in the same group brought surprises to China: China, Taipei and Malaysia chose to retire, while China advanced directly to the main competition without playing a game. This makes the China team both happy and worried. The good news is that you can directly advance to the race, but the worry is that it is difficult to know the competition status of the players. Is there a problem? Are the players more prepared for the strong enemy?
After talking about China, let's talk about why other teams choose to retire. The primary reason is the spread of COVID-19 epidemic, the epidemic prevention policies and restrictions of different countries are different, and the international COVID-19 epidemic situation is still grim. For safety, some teams choose to retire. Secondly, some teams themselves are not strong, the probability of winning prizes is low, the players in the team have low willingness to participate in the competition, and the state is in a downturn, so it is impossible to organize teams to participate.