I'm sick and tired of seeing this tournament being held in Asia forever. It would be nice if FIVB changed the WGP's formula. If there's not enough time for a 6-week preliminary round, my suggestion for the 3-week preliminary round is dividing the 12 participating teams in 4 pools, which woud have the same teams for all the 3 weeks. Each week, the 4 teams from each pool would face each other in a round-robin tournament, which would be held in a different country. These countries would be chosen based on the FIVB ranking. The top three teams from each pool would have the right of hosting a leg of the preliminary round before its fans.
For me, this new formula would be much better than the current one. Anyway, I have no hopes of seeing this happening.
WGP and WL are both promoted by money....the host cities shoulnt be chosen as FIVB ranking, on the contrary, the financial support and marketing potential are of most importance. thats why WL compitition committee requires many restriction to the candidate countries.