Asian Games 2010 -Format change?

According to SBP executive director Noli Eala, the format will likely change. Though Kuwait has not officially told FIBA-Asia, all signs point to their withdrawal. The format is said to be as such:
7 "unseeded" teams will be split into groups of 3 and 4...the group is a round robin...top 2 teams in each group advance to the next stage. See article here:
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=69
Personally, I think both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have withdrawn due to the fact that they would travel all the way to Guangzhou to play one game and most likely be done. The costs and the value of going wouldn't be worth it. I can understand the possible frustrations of KSA and KUW since they are below average sides going up against a team arguably one of the top 6 or 7 in Asia and they have a very slim hope of playing after that game. Perhaps the organizing committee could have made an effort to put a classification tournament together for the losers of the qualifying round, in order to give the losing nations a chance to play and get the Asian Games experience.

I also think that the format is unfair for the nonseeded teams. They are forced to play at least 1 or 2 more games than originally scheduled. This not only gives the "seeded' squads a chance to scout possible opponents but it also adds fatigue. Any team that progresses will already have 2 or 3 games under their belt in under a week plus 4 more games in the preliminary round robin plus any games in the knockout stage.

GAGOC has done a poor job so far organizing the tournament and releasing any relevant information. I think that a classification tournament for losing sides in the first roun would've been great incentive to enter and see how tey compare and play. In terms of information, it took  long time just to find out the original 19 teams that entered and now, any information regarding the change in formats an withdrawals of teams has come from SBP's Noli Eala, not GAGOC or FIBA-Asia. Overall, very disappointed and so far the tournament is off to a bad start, and we haven't even played a game.