2016 Baseball World Cup

The 2016 Baseball World Cup will be played in January 2016 and will be the inagural tournament. Currently 8 teams are expected to enter and will be arraged into 2 groups of 4. The top 2 teams in each group will then advance to knockout stage with a cross over bracket.

Hosting
Four countries were chosen as candidates to host the inagural competition. The host will get a birth in the competion. There are multiple rounds of voting for the host with at least one candidate eliminated after each round. The first potential hosts are Cuba/Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, Japan.

Tentative teams
As many countries do not have enough quality baseball players to be able to compete against the large baseball countries of the United States and Dominican Republic many smaller countries have taken to entering group regional teams. Teams are as follows:

The United States

Canada

Dominican Republic

Venezuela

Puerto Rico

Team South America (Brazil, Columbia, Caribbean Islands)

Team Central America (Central America and Mexico)

Team Asia (Japan, Korea, Tiawan)