The European mission will instead study the influence of dark energy by looking for subtle distortions in the way galaxies appear as they lineup on the sky, and by measuring the patterns in the three dimensional distribution of galaxies through time.
All 12 teams in the World Cup - with inaugural winners and three-time finalists the USA and Kazakhstan completing the line-up - will play five games in total, three group games followed by two lots of play-offs to determine overall rankings.