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Published 11:55 11 Apr 2018 BST
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Dublin and Offaly will be hopeful they can upset the status quo but they'll be up against it.
In championships past, teams only had two lives. Lose once in the provinces and once in the qualifiers and that was it, your summer was over. There was even a time when one loss in the provinces meant a county's championship dreams were bust.
It's all change this year.
In the Leinster championship in 2018, Kilkenny, Wexford or Galway could conceivably win just one game, lose their remaining three (draw one to be more safe), and still progress to the preliminary quarter-finals of the All-Ireland competition.
For that scenario to pan out, you'd need Wexford, Offaly and Dublin to all take points off each other - it's more unlikely but still possible. Besides, three points could be enough to definitely see a team like Wexford through - beat Dublin, draw with Offaly and the rest should take care of itself so, really you could need just one win to advance to the knockout rounds - albeit further off the final.
If teams are tied on points after the group games, it will be decided by their head to head record - but only in the event of a two-way tie. If there are more than two teams tied on points, it's down to points difference, where Wexford could be ahead of Offaly and Dublin.
Graphic via RTÉ League Sunday.
Here are the Munster championship fixtures.
The Munster championship will be extremely competitive. There will be ten round-robin games and Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Clare will fancy their own chances going into each game.
With only three teams progressing, this means that two of these counties will be dumped out early. Getting off to a good start will be so important to each county.
Waterford will certainly be up against it, considering they'll have to travel for each of their games.
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