[Variable Participant Number World Cup Qualification]

Thank you all for the help I'll give it a try and otherwise I'll probably change the format to groups for the first round.

[Variable Participant Number World Cup Qualification]

At the moment I use the "Oualified Teams" (for 56 nations - picture 1, for 57 nations - picture 2). Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to do this with the different levels, which only take place when a certain number of teams is reached.

[Variable Participant Number World Cup Qualification]

Hi,

the preliminary qualfication is a knockout (seeded round) so If the Host Nation is from africa there are 56 Teams in that competition where the bottom 16 Teams are sorted by World Ranking and getting a seeding beginning from 0 to 15. And then Team 0 playing against 15 and the 8 winner of These Games are going to the Stage 1 (groups)

With 18 Teams there are 9 Games with the Same procedure.

[Variable Participant Number World Cup Qualification]

I'm working on a project that aims to change the format of all national competitions, among other things. However, I've encountered a problem. Qualifying for the World Cup, for example, for Africa involves 56 or 57 nations (depending on the host country of the World Cup). Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to create two different sets of rules for these two cases. Background for two sets of rules is that with 56 nations, the bottom 16 nations go into a preliminary qualification round, and with 57 nations, the bottom 18 nations do so.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can implement this?