Hmm, it's sad this discussion hasn't taken place a bit earlier...
People are arguing about Unity and Wonwokie being top tier clans, but now teams which are (no offense) way lower ranked got invited into the Eorpean Championchip Series... That doesnt really make any sence at all to me. I'm not from the old days, but I can imagine when Scar and Deacon started organising the ECS they checked out the scences clans and made the format fitting the scene. But we're not back in the days. The scene has changed.
It would have been enough to invite 6-8 clans and leave the rest open for qualifiers...
I can understand that some teams wont really have any fun competing if they don't even have a chance to pass the qualifiers..
Anyway, it's sad this discussion hasn't happend earlier, although I think if some of the invited teams (not kurwa and stuff, but the lower ranked ones) showed balls and agreed to actually participate in the qualifiers, this would make things easy enough to still fix this issue...
So I would suggest to think about this next time, anything like the ECS is going to take place (in bannerlords) or wherever...