But the actuality is it should severely decrease the likelihood for wild cards to prevail.
Beginning next season, the top-seeded teams will host the first two games against the wild cards.
Two-time winner Pete Sampras and Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero have both asked for wild cards.
So that is one of the big wild cards that everybody is going to be watching tonight.
Then there are two wild cards that can be used to win almost any trick: transparency and credibility.
The handful of funds they choose to offer their employees are usually carefully screened to eliminate wild cards.
Professor WILLIAM WHEATON (Economics, MIT): There are two wild cards this time around.
But as the Senate races toward ending the trial, two wild cards remain.
The other teams to get wild cards on Wednesday were Belgium's Quick Step-Davitamon, and France's Credit Agricole and FDJ.com.
The addition of two new Wild Cards in 2012 or 2013 will open up the playoffs to even more teams.
Montgomerie had failed to qualify for the team, but captain Bernhard Langer had given him one of his two wild cards.
But Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc said the sprinter had another chance when four more wild cards were named on 19 May.
The House of Representatives is the big deck in which lurk many wild cards awaiting the right moment to be dealt.
The divisional round is going to remain best-of-five, but before that, the two wild cards will play an edgy one-day, one-game playoff.
Major-college football has no play-in games, no wild cards, no automatic-qualifying tournaments.
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The Great Recession is the big event and these wild cards are possible because they will be a consequence of the biggest economic Snafu since WWII.
Although voters say the economy is foremost on their minds ahead of November's election, developments in Iran, Syria and the eurozone could easily become political wild cards.
Global economic conditions, inflation, interest rates, tax rates, and so on are all wild cards in retirement plans if they rely on mutual funds and equivalent vehicles.
With a host of players in the running to be one of Colin Montgomerie's three wild cards, he may miss the event for the first time in his pro career.
But it will all but rule out the wild cards who used to be able to seize national attention on the strength of their performances in Iowa or New Hampshire.
From an American perspective, Alfa Romeo is one of the wild cards that got thrown into the deck when Fiat acquired the carcass of Chrysler from the U.S. government in 2009.
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Together with the wild cards handed out by the Roland Garros organisers to young French hopefuls, it means the home nation are going to have plenty of chances for glory this year.
They were asked to make predictions for 2013 with three sets of odds: Something that is pretty certain, predictions that are rather more risky, and finally ones that are complete wild cards.
The game will focus entirely on the battle between the two factions, with Booker and Elizabeth showing up as wild cards who can either be persuaded to help either faction, or serve as their own unpredictable unit.
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Woodroffe, from Epsom, Surrey, kept the British flag flying and boosted her hopes of receiving more wild cards for the big Eastbourne event next week and Wimbledon a week later but her compatriots Lucie Ahl and Julie Pullin both went out.
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