Second Preliminary Rounds
In this stage, the results in the preliminary rounds are combined and the teams who met previously do not play each other a second time. The teams that advanced from Group A and Group B are combined into Group E and teams that advanced from Group C and Group D are combined into Group F.
The top four from each group advance to the knockout stages; the bottom two advance to the Ninth-to-twelfth-place playoffs.
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