Last week, the world's latest world cup qualifier in the Oceania region began, but for various reasons, the World Preliminary Tournament, which was originally only played by 8 teams, was also affected by biological events. Due to the sudden change, there was even a rare scene in which the team was qualified for the group without playing.
In the Qualifiers for Oceania Group A, Tahiti, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu are in the same group. However, after the first game between Rohm and Cook, a large number of players in the Cook Islands were infected, so they were urgently called to stop by the Oceania Football Association and directly decided to lose the game. Another game that has not yet started, because Vanuatu also has a large number of players recruited, so the Tahiti team, which is currently in good health, has not yet played a game in this group and joined the Solomon Islands to advance to the final decisive stage of the World Preliminary Tournament in Oceania.
Biological events have a deep impact around the world, and the World Cup qualifiers on all continents of the world have also been greatly affected. Although the games in the Oceania region only started at the end, without the premise of health, everything was gone. The Group A side actually only played one game (Solomon vs Cook) to reveal the team. If the other continental divisions are compared to the strength on the field, then here it is the physical health, as long as there is no illness, you can qualify from the group. Tahiti football once reached the final round of FIFA's U-20 World Cup in 2019, setting a record, and at the end of last year, there was a team's historic final of the Club World Cup, which once overshadowed the Chinese men's football team.
Of course, Tahiti is currently only qualifying for the group stage, and is still very far away from the World Cup finals. The Oceania Division's tiebreaker stage will be attended by four teams, with a home-and-away knockout system to reach the final. The team that wins the final will receive 0.5 World Cup tickets and compete with the 5th place in the South American division for qualification for the World Cup in the final play-offs. If a team from Oceania were able to get through the dangers, it would set a world record for advancing to the fewest games played in the history of the World Qualifiers. Can you figure out how many games Tahiti would have to play if he made it to the World Cup?