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In lieu of coin tosses, I remember reading about FIFA rankings being used as a final tiebreaker, not sure if that was ever deployed? or if I'm making that up? But if that were the case, at January 2000, South Korea was 52nd and Canada was 80th so they would've lost that tiebreaker. Which is even more incredible to think the 50/50 chance leads to the win... well, and a beautiful golden goal back when that was a thing.

Yeah I saw it was 8 teams instead of 6 for qualifying this time so that's nice that Canada could get this far, but not exactly brimming with hope and optimism when there's 5 teams that get bye'd in ahead of them and only 3+1 that qualify. I always just assume Mexico-U.S.-Costa Rica make it outside a fluke (like the U.S. last time) and the rest are battling out for the playoff, and crossing fingers they don't draw the CONMEBOL playoff team...