Well, I already wrote it a couple of days ago in the MIlano-Cortina Thread
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From usually well infromed sources the different national hockey federations were already informed about the Men tournament qualification format for Milano/Cortina 2026.
Same format will be played as the Vancouver, Sochi, PyeongChang and Beijing tournaments.
12 teams tournament, 8 qualified directly via IIHF ranking after next year 2023 World Championships, 1 automatical host quota for Bella Italia and 3 will advance from 4 rounds qualification Tournaments, with 9th, 10th and 11th ranked IIHF 2023 country hosting the final qualification tournaments.
The final IIHF world ranking will be counted the usual way:
Last 4 WChs and last Olympic Tournament will be counted,
with the 2023 WCh having 100% counts, 2022 WCh 75%, WCh 2021 50% and WCh 2020 (since was not played due pandemic the 2019 will be used instead) 25%
and The last Olympics have 100% counting value.
So basically the qualifying ranking right now for Milano looks so
Rank
NOC
WCh 2023
WCh 2022
WOG 2022
WCh 2021
WCh 2020(19)
Total
1.
1200
1160
1120
1760
2.
1160
1060
1160
1690
3.
1040
1200
1200
1680
4.
1060
1120
1040
1615
5.
1120
1000
960
1580
6.
1100
960
1100
1580
7.
1000
1040
1000
1520
8.
940
1100
1020
1510
9.
960
1020
1060
1495
10.
1020
900
900
1440
11.
920
920
940
1385
12.
880
880
920
1330
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this the amount of points nations win via WCH
1.
1200
9.
960
17.
800
25.
640
33.
480
41.
320
2.
1160
10.
940
18.
780
26.
620
34.
460
42.
300
3.
1120
11.
920
19.
760
27.
600
35.
440
43.
280
4.
1100
12.
900
20.
740
28.
580
36.
420
44.
260
5.
1060
13.
880
21.
720
29.
560
37.
400
45.
240
6.
1040
14.
860
22.
700
30.
540
38.
380
46.
220
7.
1020
15.
840
23.
680
31.
520
39.
360
47.
200
8.
1000
16.
820
24.
660
32.
500
40.
340
48.
180
so if they not allowed to play in Dvision I A this year (which they will not) it means at max 720 for 21st place (will be counted 75%)
and next year (assuming they will be relegated again) and they win the Division I B it is 680 points for 23rd place (100% counted) that would be really bad for them but again we muxt count the 1160 points from Beijing which can at the end save them