Always loved the unorthodox strategies brought by the Japanese, dissappointed that they will not have regional nor even national qualifiers this year. Nevertheless many will enter LCQ so it should still be Worlds, whilst I agree this makes Worlds this year for the Japanese a basis of who can afford the flights it will also mean the passionate japanese will definately be there, LCQ this year is probably going to be harder then previous years.
I do agree with Huy to an extent, if they were going to cancel VGC11 worldwide they'd done a joint worldwide announcement. It's about and before this time we get the VGC11 official statement with it's own minisite detailing the locations and dates, this hasn't happen yet, I do believe they should continue as they were and just either, open up more spaces for European qualifiers, open up spaces for Oceania, or even give more spaces to enter Worlds through LCQ (not trying to say anything about america, maybe even give Canada a nationals!).
I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. A great shame not to allow the greatest japanese players of this generation the opportunity to prove themselves in tournaments though.
<3 Japan