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We can imagine that initially it might have been just simple internal matches, providing only weekly minutes.
Later, the current system was introduced, with national tournaments and scrimmages, making it more interesting.

We can imagine that initially it might have been just simple internal matches, providing only weekly minutes.
Later, the current system was introduced, with national tournaments and scrimmages, making it more interesting.

No, national tournament (cup) and scrimmages have been part of Buzzerbeater since its implementation.

Scrimmages are for me one of the worst parts of the game. Tedious to schedule and only meaningful impact is training minutes and game shape management. I generally set my lineup after game Tuesday and don't check back until Friday morning to see training results. BBM was a good idea to help bridge the gap a bit, but it still seems a bit too random to be anything more than a curiosity.

It would be a monumental effort, but I'd be more interested to see an "add-on" game that utilizes the existing engine and player progression system, but lives in a separate universe. Almost like a Utopia, but not even tied into the same player database. You could either do "arena style challenges only" or maybe just a faster league play and/or joinable round robin leagues based on your tier level. Something like Rival Stars or Top Eleven are the ideas here but with the BB universe touch to it. Something like this would attract newer users and a certain percentage of them may eventually convert to play the "Long Game" once they understand the mechanics and gameplay. Especially with proper cross promotion in-game.

The framework for a potential game is already created. But you would need a separate development team and have to hope that it would pay for itself in the long run through ads, supporter, in-game purchases, etc. The danger of splitting the userbase is still there, but I'd like to think they would have more synergy than competition. Especially if you make it more surface level and have less depth to it so they fulfill different needs.

However, game shape and training are heavily tied to this 2 + 1 format and managing minutes is very important when trying to make a deep cup run. I don't see how any other system would handle this without a MAJOR system change that the community is divided at best on and Marin doesn't have the resources to undertake anyways.