<P> The state champions (as well as the Northern California, Southern California, Texas East, Texas West, and Dakotas champions) compete in one of eight different regional tournaments . Each regional tournament winner then advances to the Little League World Series . See (4) for a comprehensive breakdown of current and historical US regional tournament locations, participants and results . </P> <P> Other countries and regions pick their own way of crowning a champion . Little League Canada holds tournaments at the provincial and divisional level to field six champions (five provincial and one divisional) at the national tournament: Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic Provinces . The host site of the national tournament varies from year to year, and the host team gets an automatic berth as the seventh team . The tournament is played as a round robin and uses the page playoff format . The winner of the national tournament earns the right to represent Canada at the Little League World Series . </P> <P> The Little League World Series consists of 16 teams--8 from the United States, and 8 from other countries . Prior to 2001 there were eight teams in the LLWS: four U.S. teams (Central, South, East, and West) and four international (Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Far East). It should be noted that in 1975 there were only four teams in the LLWS, all from the United States . The international teams returned in 1976 . Starting in 1976, two brackets were established, with the four U.S. regions competing in the U.S. bracket and the four non-U.S. regions competing in the International bracket . The U.S. national champion and the International champion then compete for the World Series title . </P> <P> In 2001, the number of regions was doubled to 16, from which the 16 regional champions continued to be divided into the two brackets: 8 in the United States Bracket and 8 in the International Bracket . From 2001 to 2009, however, each team was then randomly assigned to one of two "pools" in their respective bracket . In the opening days of the tournament, the teams competed round - robin within their own pool . The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinal of their bracket, where the first place team from one pool competed against the second place team from the other . The respective winners advanced to play in either the United States or International Final . The U.S. champion and the International champion advanced to compete in the Little League World Series Championship Game . </P>

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