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Hello,
In the debate about the second team, some managers of African 'micro-nations' complained of the lack of competition in their respective championship.
Thus I had an idea to solve this problem. Here is my proposal:
Would it be possible to replace the national tournament by an African clubs tournament?
This would provide a tougher competition while maintaining the identity of each nation.
The other advantage is that there would be enough teams in this tournament to reach the end of the season.
For example, the current tournament's final in South Africa takes place the week before the ASG, which is too early compared to larger communities.
I am sure that it would be an attractive and competitive tournament for all African managers.
Do not hesitate to leave any comments or suggestions about this thread.
Then it would be great if the game's admins could give their opinion on the feasibility. Thanks. ;)

Then there would only one cup winner which means also less B3-participant from Africa. Less cup reward money, less B3 reward money so African communities would lose lots of money that leads to disadvantage against other continents' teams.

Then there would only one cup winner which means also less B3-participant from Africa. Less cup reward money, less B3 reward money so African communities would lose lots of money that leads to disadvantage against other continents' teams.

Well not a real problem. Sometimes African countries have only one representative in the BBB as the winner of the national championship and tournament is the same team. Then a BBB victory offers only $ 20,000. The fact that this new tournament continues until the end of the season will eventually allow the best teams to earn more money. By the way the idea is not about money, but to give a more competitive tournament to African managers.

Seems to be a good idea if BBs don't want to merge african countries altogether.

Well, stronger teams getting more money because of the longer cup series and weaker teams getting less, because of getting ejected earlier sounds like a problem.
Anyway I don't really care what happens there and you certainly know the situation better, I just wanted to point out a possible disadvantage.

This way, it sounds way better

Since we won't have second teams in our leagues, this African Cup sounds like a good idea to me

For the BBB's tickets, few options are possible. I like the one from JoeMaverick. Otherwise, so nobody would lose anything and managers from other continents would be happy as well, i would create Continental Cups. Those competitions would take place monday, friday or sunday. One ticket for each winner.

Last thing, i agree with Perpete and would even go farther. B3 last winner must be qualified for the next edition but not the previous winners. It makes no sense. If i tank few seasons, build a crazy team with the amount of money i would have saved and win the B3, i'll play the B3 all my life ?

If one African nation has 80 users or so, and a competitive DI and we say your team is here, team A
but
Another African nation has 8 users, and only 1 really active and dominate...and this is team B...

Team B can train all the time, 48 minutes out of position, because he never faces tough opponents regular season
Team B can stay in his DI, stay at the top, and still TIE every game
Team B can save his best players for his cup game when he plays team A

Team A has a harder time training because he is in competitive league and can not find a free game to play his trainees out of position. He gets maybe 1 young/out of position trainee if he is lucky. Team B can train all 3 games most weeks young/out of position.... Team A always falls behind.

Team A must forfeit league games, TIEing, playing scrubs, to save up players the week he drew team B in the cup.

We can'T mix cups of nations of such radically different sizes.

This is another reason that micros get a lot of gripe in the b3. Guys who fought up five or 6 divisions over 12 seasons or more hate playing an upstart from a micro who has only been playing 5 or 6 seasons....and if the micro-baller plays his cards right he can train super players, TIE all season and just be unstoppable.

African communities are almost equal in number of managers (between 5 and 15). Then merging national tournaments in a single continental tournament would not give an advantage to any manager ;)