EUCF 2012 and bids for xeucf2013

The European Ultimate Club Championships took place this weekend in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the aim of Ka-Pow! Ultimate, in our first season, to qualify for this tournament, and unfortunately we fell short. Still, it was good to watch it being streamed live and was an entertaining final between Clapham Ultimate and Chevron Action Flash.
The great thing about having UK teams finishing 1st and 2nd (as well as good results for the other three teams who qualified) is that it points to the UK (the west region) as the strongest european region, guaranteeing that UK teams will be competitive and that the UK scene should continue to improve. This is also backed by Team GB's recent success at the World championships.
This should also mean that in future, the UK might get more bids to the European club championships. The bids for this year's championships were decided on regional tournaments with the regions containing the following countries and being allocated the following numbers of bids:

West (UK): 5
South (Ireland - France - Switzerland - Italy - Spain - Portugal - Israel): 6 (took the bid from the North team that did not attend)
Central (Denmark - Germany - Holland - Belgium - Luxembourg): 6
East (Poland - Czech Rep - Austria - Slovakia - Slovenia - Croatia - Belarus - Ukraine - Hungary): 4
North (Norway - Sweden - Finland - Russia - Latvia - Estonia - Lithuania): 3 (Had 4 bids but one qualified team didn't attend)

Now I'm not sure I deciphered the algorithm to allocating bids for next year completely correct (here) but as far as I can tell the bid allocation for next year should be:
West: 6
South: 5
Central: 5
East: 4
North: 4

which would accurately represent the strength of the regions according to average finishing position (lower is better):
West (1st, 2nd, 6th, 11th, 13th): 6.6
Central (3rd, 5th, 8th, 14th, 18th, 19th): 11.2
South (4th, 9th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 24th): 14.7
East (7th, 15th, 20th, 21st): 15.8
North (10th, 16th, 23rd): 16.3

Interestingly, the north didn't send it's 3rd highest qualifier (of 4), however, this team would have had to finish 15th (with all teams below this point assumed to just finish 1 place lower) for the North region to finish above the East.