Hot take : Every master and champs are indeed a 48 team tournaments.
theoretically yeah because they are all regional qualifiers but this just overcomplicates things
yes but no at the same time, all teams can make a master/champs but not all teams play each team
tbh there isn't really a good way of determining teams who are actually good when qualifying for the first masters bc there is no way for every team to play against each other in kickoff
bc the only solutions are either condense every game into 12-16 hour broadcasts each day or make kickoff longer