Can Toulon stop English invasion?
Of the five European Champions Cup groups, four were won by English teams while Northampton only missed out to Racing 92 in Pool Three on bonus points.
Five of the eight quarterfinalists are English and three of them will be playing at home in the last eight.
What's more, Wasps topped a Pool Five including reigning three-in-a-row champions Toulon, Exeter won a Pool Two that contained last year's beaten finalists Clermont and Saracens took a perfect six wins from six matches in the Pool One of record four-time former winners Toulouse.
Add to that Leicester topped a group with French champions Stade Francais and the future looks rosy for the English.
It's been a remarkable turnaround in a competition that had become the private possession of first the Irish and then the French in recent years.
Leinster and Toulon won six of the eight titles between them since Wasps were the last English team to lift the trophy in 2007, beating Leicester 25-9 at Twickenham.
England are guaranteed to have a team in the Final, though, as all four sides in one half of the draw are from the Premiership.
The winners of the Wasps-Exeter quarterfinal will play the winners of Saracens-Northampton in the last four.
For some, Exeter Chiefs amongst them, the first task will be adjusting to their surprise progress and aiming higher.
"We didn't expect to be winning the pool, but the players put in a fantastic shift and got a real tangible reward for it," said Exeter head coach Rob Baxter after the remarkable Pool Two finale ended with a 33-17 win over Ospreys.
Wasps were also surprised to take top spot in their group, the only one ever to feature four former winners.
"Topping the group is a major achievement," said head coach Dai Young.
"Just to be in the quarterfinals for two years on the trot is a huge statement from the club."
For the likes of Saracens, beaten finalists against Toulon in 2014, or twice former winners Leicester, anything other than reaching the final will be seen as failure.
"You go into a one-off game in the quarterfinal and they're all good teams who have come through. They're all able to beat each other," said Leicester head coach Richard Cockerill, whose side host Stade Francais in the last eight.
"We'll be happy to be at home because historically that gives you the best chance of going further."
Victory might see them face Toulon in the semifinals.
It will still take something special to beat Toulon, who actually won five matches to Wasps' four in Pool Five but lost out on head-to-head record after the English side's four bonus points allowed them to finish level at the top.
Toulon showed incredible grit just to get through their group, a try from Australia wing Drew Mitchell after the final buzzer giving them victory at home to Wasps in their penultimate game where a defeat would have seen them eliminated.
They also battled through two tight games with Bath (12-9 and 19-14) and won by just four points away to Leinster, turning around a 16-7 half-time deficit to win 20-16.
But next up they must get past compatriots if they are to reach the last four as a trip to Racing awaits them in April.
Just reaching the quarterfinals was an exploit not lost on Toulon manager Bernard Laporte who described it as an "immense satisfaction" and said he was "very proud" of his team.
"Now we have a quarterfinal in April," said Laporte.
"It will be away, that's true, but these type of matches are vice-tight. It's always close. In any case, we're still there."
As long as that's the case, the English drought won't be over.
