User blog:Sammm鯊/Seemingly contradicting given info for 1994 QWC

Previously I was just playing around and documenting it under one of my user test pages; but at the moment I reached to a point where there's nothing left to adjust, and am genuinely confused about the outcome, so relocating it here as a blog post. I'll enable comments because I am rather curious about other people's thoughts on the matter, but I can't guarantee I'll see/notice the hypothetical comments in a timely fashion.

It started because I wonder if I can piece out the 1994 Quidditch World Cup tournament bracket partially, base on the given info by Charlie in and props from. It's just so I can get a better picture of the tournament as a whole. What I got:

"‘I wish England had got through, though. That was embarrassing, that was.’ [...] ‘Went down to Transylvania, three hundred and ninety to ten,’ said Charlie gloomily. ‘Shocking performance. And Wales lost to Uganda, and Scotland were slaughtered by Luxembourg.’"

- Charles Weasley

+ Ireland 170 > Bulgaria 160 and Ireland > Peru

The following bracket is just to have a better visualization; placements of the teams are just placeholders and are interchangeable, as in, Bulgaria can also swap place in the chart with A/B/C/D/E/F/G without making a difference, basing on the team being on the upper placement of the final round.

After observing and absorbing the above, the only deduction was: With the rest (A/B/D/E/F/G/I/J/K/L) literally could be any team
 * C/H/M
 * ≠Transylvania/England/Luxembourg/Scotland/Uganda/Wales
 * ≈Argentina/Australia/Brazil/France/India/Japan/Portugal/Spain/USA

Sigh, sad but I think that was it. No way to determine further? =/ Though, I have since then been belatedly doubting just how canon the props are; or questioning my understanding towards Charlie's statement. Did his "got through" comment refer to simply qualifying to compete in the actual first round? I had always assumed he meant "getting through [whichever round they didn't get through, under the premise they were already in the tournament ]"; but even if that wasn't the case, just how many rounds are there before the tournament officially kicks off? Because both Transylvania and Wales are missing from the in-universe promotional materials, and I actually take something back; in certain aspects, THOSE props definitely CANNOT be counted as 100% completely canon, due to the fact that England is included and Transylvania isn't, when in Tier 1 Transylvania pummeled England.

Unless those in-universe promotional materials for some reason decided to feature 16 random national teams, including teams that didn't even make it to the actual first round, the selection contains errors. The 16 are: Removing Tier 1 confirmed teams you'd get: 2, if not at least 1, of the above 9 teams, basing on the premise that the in-universe promotional materials are meant to showcase the actual top16 and not some random teams, can be considered questionable ; as stated earlier, Transylvania and Wales are missing. Wales can be explained by having its defeat being in preliminary, for at least the team it lost to, Uganda, was listed. The same cannot be said for Transylvania missing; it makes no sense for England to be featured without the inclusion of the team confirmed to having beaten it with 390 to 10 at some point, preliminary or not.

Also as previously stated, the only scenario for it to make sense, is for the in-universe promotional materials to be featuring random teams, which, in all honesty, would be a complete crap designing decision: Why would you highlight a team that doesn't even actually compete in the tournament you are designing the promotional material for? It's just a crap move to falsely advertise while being supremely misleading. Overall, this is just sad.

Anyhow, I do understand this is something that likely won't get a definite answer for ("why were the in-universe promotional materials designed that way, is it a mistake? etc."), and the purpose of this blog isn't about debating over it; I mean, feel free to add your personal scenario, but the "why" can't be officially answered by anyone other than the production teams themselves or JRK, which is why I said it wasn't the point.

I'm posting this, because there's no way I'd be able to remember the conclusion I eventually got, without documentation. This blog is just that, a documentation of how I got my conclusion, nothing else.