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Pickup games are for everyone, so everyone can learn and improve, played at any time against anyone (and playing at any time is very important for many, and especially new managers) and this feature is extremely, extremely useful for new managers who just started playing BB and for our user retention, sometimes the next game for starters is 2 days later, one day later, we need to give them an opportunity to play immediately, enjoying BuzzerBeater game immediately, show them what it's about.
And one last note - it helps them gather knowledge about BB faster and that is extremely important for us.

NTs are coaches are barely 1.5% of BB users, usually very knowledgeable, usually very experienced, they have enough from it. This tool does not aim for the very best managers to learn even more. This tool helps closing the knowledge gap in less time.

- Would it be possible to introduce the pickup games for National Teams ? Most scrimmages are played with TS 1, so they're worthless in terms of testing.

As a National Coach myself, i wasn't asked if Marin should implement this system to NTs. It wasn't in the discussion, we preferred to focus our resources (time) to implement it without NTs. Would it be there in the future? I don't know. As a NT coach myself, i see how it'd contribute, but perhaps there would be other, more important features and updates for everyone.

If the pickup game is not scheduled, you can try changing the time.
In my experience, if the time difference between two pickup games is only 5 minutes, it seems the later one will fail to get scheduled.