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I doubt I'll win. People keep thinking that because I don't post every week in the gamethreads on the offsite that I'm not fit to be the U21/NT manager, never mind I've been on the offsite longer than nearly all of them, doing the same things they're doing currently, five years before.

Thanks to all for the warm welcome. As I said before, I'm not teeth-gnashingly, chair-throwingly, otherteamsGatorade-poisoningly competitive about these games, and I'll try to keep my sense of humor about me, but if I go silent for a while it's because I'm on top of a mountain emitting an earth-trembling Primal Scream.
I can even see the humor in the TV brainiacs choosing my opener, against Tragic, as their Game of the Week. Sado-Masochism Theater, I s'pose they'll call it. My players have asked if their faces can be blurred out, or if they can wear those Groucho Marx-style moustaches with the built in spectacles.
Someone suggested I sell my power forward, who last season won the first MVP in franchise history. You think 6'4 Brazilian PFs with Japanese names just grow on trees? How am I to break it to the guy? I guess that old chestnut, "Step into my office, 'cause you're motherf---ing fired."

Well well well, I never thought I'd run into you again oriolekid! What's going on??

You're still in this league?!? :P

I got destroyed in League II. It wasn't pleasant at all.

What's the accelerated promotion system?

the champions of either conference is promoted (regardless of who wins the championship, both teams who play will promote), and there is 1 more automatic demotee in each conference (so the 5 seeds play the 6 seeds in relegation, and the 7 and 8 are both automatically demoted).

That's interesting. I dont know. What would be the benefit of that? More turn over? I guess so far from what i've seen many teams who make that jump to D2 in their first attempt really struggle and often end up back in D3. So if that's happening to 1 team why send 2 teams up there? And then why send 2 teams up and have both the 7 & 8 get demoted. If your lucky as a new promote team holding serve and finishing 7th at least gives you a punchers chance at battling a relegation series and staying for the increased arena and tv contract money. If 2 teams auto demote then hell you promote to demote kind of seems like a mute point.....

Unless in the Utopia you all have seen an increase in game flow or manger activity by having that particular structure...

I thought Utopia did that early just because there weren't alot of Utopia users to it was the fastest way to get all the very very active users in the top leagues quickly and therefore increase Utopia competition and user friendliness.