16 teams played in finals tournament out of 52 teams that tried to qualify.
Australia are a founder member of the RWC and therefore have and will play in all RWC series.
I suspect the answer can only be the All Blacks
Win or to let people know about them
all the lower ranked teams play in a tournament to determin who qualifies for the RWC 2011. (and Namibia won). Hoped this helped :)
In basic teams who do not automatically qualify (those who are always qualifying at this time are the founders of the RWC)play other teams in their group - the over all winner in the fist stages move to second stage where they are pooled and play again against other pool winners. This continues until they ahave the remaining 24 teams. These are the teams that will play in the finals.
There are 32 teams at the start of the world cup.
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There are 94 countries commencing the knockout stages with 4 pools of 5 teams in the final tournament (20 teams in total)
new zealand rwc 2011
More than twenty, I know it doesn't help much but just in case you didn't know!
At the RWC is in New Zealand then the capital is Wellington