reckon the 1st season they will all start in bot div
but still a ton of luck who promotes & who not that 1st season which will be massive
see below, but i disagree with your statement about the luck.
1) the utopia team can buy players from the original nation?
2) everyone starts in IV. however, after the first season, how many promote to III? if only the champs promote, then it's 64 teams, which only fills 3 III divisions... if it's a clean up, then those thougher conferences will be at a disadvantage, etc etc...
3) when does Utopia start?
4) by my knowledge, a BB season doesn't match a full year. So i'm assuming they mean 4 seasons?
and last but not least: one big Con remains:
the managers who would take a second team, would go to other communities. since they are usually the active ones on the forum, BB was hoping to see the smaller nations getting more active (assumption of mine here). However, since everyone ends up moving to Utopia, we are facing the risk of seeing managers become less active in their own communities because Utopia will without a doubt become a 'hyper' active community. So now ur draining the current (active) communities to one central place. I'm not sure if that is such a good thing for Buzzerbeater in it's whole. BB is fun because we all share a passion for basketball, but it remains fun because of the interactions u can make within the community (atleast that is my view on it). i love it because i can rival others, exchange idea's, discuss topics etc. However, if u drain those communities, will BB remain such a fun place? I liked the idea of a second team, but somehow i'm feeling less attracted to the Utopia idea...
As for the 1st season luck etc:
there are multiple options for that first season. However, i'd like to point out that those promoting will have a slight advantage, but will have had to spend cash to get up their on players. Other owners could invest in their own arena, decide to end last, pick up a good draftee, buy a trainer and have a much better financial situation to go from. my prediction is that everyone will go after players on the TL, instead of first taking care of their own financial situation. Everyone is so focussed on promoting, that many will forget that what makes a team truely succesfull, is long term planning and a good economical foundation to support it.
So yes, certain managers will promote faster, get a promotion bonus etc. However, they won't have the arena or the economical foundation required to keep up with it. So teams promoting the seasons afterwards will have a better economy and are likely to overtake the hastly promoted teams. being in a higher division doesn't do u any good if u don't have the arena to generate enough revenue from it. A top division in any country with decent amount of active people is very unstable at first. It only becomes stable after 5 to 6 seasons, when the economies have given them a good advantage. Hence, focus on the economical part first, before charging for the top division. atleast, that is if u intend on playing a while...