Yes, that's rather interesting. Don't know if it's a bug or if you just got seeded that highly because you got us that trophy last season and did very well this season, too.
Thing is the new schedule is not supposed to be fair in the way that every team, top to bottom, will get a fair shot at the same number of wins. It was made that everyone would play teams from all over the ranking scale and not some teams would get lucky and play almost only bottom teams while his direct competitor would play lot more teams from the top.
In previous seasons, our schedule could be a lot worse than the Australia schedule than this season, but it feels like it could be closer than this (current WR of opponents, may have changed over the season):
K: 21-27-39-45-65-68-75-98
A: 28-36-56-57-67-72-87-95
For references other Asian teams closer in the Consolation rankings (Japan / Pilipinas):
J: 30-36-45-55-63-66-81-96 (slightly better schedule than ours)
P: 18-27-38-41-57-60-74-90 (slightlty worse schedule than ours)
In conclusion, schedule are fairer. There is still some luck factor which is good imho, but we haven't been lucky schedule wise in quite some time.
But we got that trophy and no one is going to take that away from us. So all's good. And maybe we'll have some luck with the schedule when we need it in order to secure HCA for an Asian tournament that we'll try to win (or at least, get another trophy). Maybe around christmas 2024 or something? ;)
Winner: 1x Consolation Tournament (U21), 2x Goldene Ananas, 1x Goldene Himbeere, 2x Goldener Erdapfel, 3x Bronze Medal (U21)