i see no problem when the "big nations" dominate almost every nwwc. there are still new players in the teams and its supposed to be fun (i guess). imagine a football worldcup where all non SA&EU countries are not motivated because they wont win anyway. cant understand all the complains tbh. for the ping problem, why not doing 2 matches each on a countries server? i remember my server host changed server location within a day after i asked, im sure it would be possible to find agreements with hosts for that in a bigger scale.
I guess one has a problem with the big nations winning, the best should win at the end.
The tournament just could be bigger (more nations) and include more members of the community (Team B/C for big Nations for example). The tournament could be more attractive for minor nations to participate. A qualifier could solve that. Atm some nations just get stomped 15-0 in 3 groupstage matches and it's not sure they will participate next year again if they just get slaughtered and have zero chances to progress into knockouts.
Give them the opporunity to play more matches in qualifiers vs nations that are in their skill level. For some weaker teams their only goal would be to qualify and it would be an achievement to have participated.
Stronger nations won't have to participate in qualifiers, because they compose of active proven competitive players.
If you sort the weakest out early, the groupstages also would be more interesting. Favorite Teams have a bigger challenge, instead of nations getting farmed 15-0 from every team the underdog would be able to win few rounds and maybe even change the course of the advancing teams for knockouts.
If you wanna call it a World Cup you should be interested in getting as much nations and players involved.