The 2010 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships served as the qualifying tournament for countries in the Asian/Oceanian region.
The tournament was overseen by the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC), and was played in Woodlands, Singapore.
Under the IFF's new qualification system, the 32 countries registered for the world championships needed to qualify for only 16 spots.
[1] Depending on the number of countries registered per continental region, that many slots were given at the world championships.
The 2 countries are as follows: Ballots for the groups in this event were drawn on May 9, 2009, during one of the semi-final matches of the 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships in Turku, Finland.
The groups will be assembled based on qualifying as follows: India withdrew from world championships due to financial difficulties on January 21, almost 2 weeks before the tournament began.
[3] Although Georgia never withdrew from the world championships, they were not able to show up to their first match against Slovakia, resulting in an automatic walkover win of 5:0.
Matches which are draws at the end of the playoff round will, however, continue with a sudden victory overtime period and a possible penalty shootout.
The European Qualifying tournament in Poland determined which 2 teams received a spot in the 2010 World Championships.
The European Qualifying tournament in Spain determined which 2 teams received a spot in the 2010 World Championships.
This format has drawn a lot of criticism from floorball media, as both Canada and the United States have consistently finished at the top of their respective divisions at previous world championships, but were unable to advance due to the IFF's poorly structured division advancement/relegation format.
It is believed that the IFF may change their continental qualification format for the 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships.
*Note: Standings table is provided only for statistical comparison, as qualifying in this group was based on aggregate scoring rather than ranking.