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129389.452 in reply to 129389.11
Date: 3/1/2010 4:00:14 PM
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totally agree. its easier to WIN a Championship in DIV I in a smaller country. Numbers alone support that. But its much harder in a smaller country to build an internationally competitive team. Take me for example, i dominated my country for 5 seasons, but in B3 i got continually thrashed. Why? Because i had no one to push me, to make me better. And i only got to see where i was truly at, in terms of building a competitive team, 1 game a season and thats in B3.

It makes for a extremely boring game. I was so bored infact i decided to sell all my players, despite having another team to win the championship and start over with young trainees.

A smaller country also makes building a competitive NT impossible. So there are advantage and disadvantages to being in a smaller or bigger country. For me, I would rather be tested in a big country then dominate a smaller one.

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Date: 3/1/2010 4:12:21 PM
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I have just a small though, which could avoid the boring competions and let the first teams start in lower divisions. I don't know it is possible to realize, but maybe a try.

Maybe you could start small countrys, in "multinational leagues"(like the Baltic league for example) so that small countrys the teams start to play in bigger countrys and since they reach a decent size the BB could announce a "spin off" to the next season, and order the teams after the National ranking to the new created leagues.
This will solve many problems, but in tradeoff you get new ones(spliting rivalrys, leagues, and maybe some unpopular decision when deciding who plays which league).

Just a thought.

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129389.454 in reply to 129389.453
Date: 3/1/2010 4:21:59 PM
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I have just a small though, which could avoid the boring competions and let the first teams start in lower divisions. I don't know it is possible to realize, but maybe a try.

Maybe you could start small countrys, in "multinational leagues"(like the Baltic league for example) so that small countrys the teams start to play in bigger countrys and since they reach a decent size the BB could announce a "spin off" to the next season, and order the teams after the National ranking to the new created leagues.
This will solve many problems, but in tradeoff you get new ones(spliting rivalrys, leagues, and maybe some unpopular decision when deciding who plays which league).

Just a thought.


This doesnt help an even bigger problem. The fact that NT's for small countries are always going to be a complete waste of time.

Randomise every existing BB team into ficticious locations, make equal size locations and then each NT and club team will have identical challenges and financial benefits.

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129389.455 in reply to 129389.454
Date: 3/1/2010 4:25:44 PM
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this will amke it hard to identify with the NT, and i think with small nations it becomes to the targets you got - to be honest i though of coaching the NT of Luxembourgh building a maybe later celebrete wins against equal or maybe a bit better competition.

Also you had to balance it out very often, then i would make it without any borders and just saying you playing in the blue pole ... This will cause problems like i don't understand my competition etc.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 3/1/2010 4:29:43 PM

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129389.456 in reply to 129389.455
Date: 3/1/2010 4:39:01 PM
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I only raised this point as there is a thread basically suggesting the ratio of USA teams is too low. No doubt over time the bigger countries will get even bigger and all disparities will widen.

Unlike the real world where any size country can produce enough talent to field a team capable of beating anyone else, in a virtual world a country with a user base of less than 50 cannot - fact. What is the point of these teams even competing when they are just there to make up the numbers. The international competitions are even more shallow than the BB3 as a competition.... I just cant see how a better balance can be created throughout the BB world as more users are added.

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129389.457 in reply to 129389.456
Date: 3/1/2010 4:57:14 PM
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in european socer, there a lot of small nations who can not compete, even if they have soccer as sport number 1 and the big nations where a lot of people play soccer usually are on top.

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129389.458 in reply to 129389.457
Date: 3/2/2010 4:31:42 AM
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in european socer, there a lot of small nations who can not compete, even if they have soccer as sport number 1 and the big nations where a lot of people play soccer usually are on top.


Of course there are always 'exceptions that disprove the rule' but this doesn't invalidate my point. Especially if you consider the compound effect of 5,000 draft picks season upon season vs a country with 50 season to season.

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129389.459 in reply to 129389.458
Date: 3/2/2010 4:46:28 AM
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i don't think that those are the exceptions, i believe they are the rule, i believe the exception wha lettland who made it one time to the european championship and don't loose with 6 goals +

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Date: 3/2/2010 7:49:21 AM
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i beleive they could make the consolation tournament more attractive, in using the "schweizer system"(i know just the german name) which is used in chess tournament a lot. In this system the first round got drawn, and after this the matchup depends on the standing so that team play against each other who had one win in round two or teams who lose their first game. In the third round their was to bracket(2-1-0 win etc.).

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