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I'm not sure if Mixi and Ameba is the right place. Lots of youngster or housewifes there with only the passion to do some virtual gardening or chit chat about fashion and celebrities. Facebook might be a possibility, it has a growin' community in Japan. There are some Basketball teams with websites in Japan. Could be a nice option to place an advertisment banner there. There is one team established in 2010 here in Miyazaki which I support (http://www.shining-suns.com)

The crazy thing is that we only would need, let's say, 50 people out of 120 million in Japan to play this game on a more interesting basis. Unfortunately I can't bring some of my family onto this (my wife is japanese and some of my relatives are all over Japan:) because they are going the japanese way of endless studying and working with no free-time at all.

Well, I guess BB is concentrating on the leagues in countries with hunderts of user. To keep smaller countries like Japan is not much work to do for them in the database. At least I hope we won't disapear as a nation and become a league with other ones.

Some very good points by everyone and I liked what Rorufu said.

Terry Bogard and BBstAr should join NKRK, SO, MMM and Kyoto in the top 6 in division II

Our last three promotees Sharman, Fighters and Platoon are now ranked 1, 7 and 8 in Nippon.

Current D2 teams rankings are:

NKRK 11
Kyoto 13
Otaku 14
BBstAr 15
MMM 17
Baikinman 18
Terry Bogard 21
Elandstraat 263 24

A ratings promotion would be more sensible than record where the divisions are VERY uneven.

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 1/17/2012 11:00:16 PM

Final games are now out of the way and now we have the official BOT PROMOTION order.

The top two teams on this list that DO NOT win their league championship will get a bot promotion.

22 + 1389 Mythical Man Moth (probably will win)
20 + 1098 BBstAr (probably will lost to whichever of Kyoto Shogun, NKRK or Shikoku Otaku emerges from the Great 8)
20 + 1085 Kyoto Shogun (tough 3 way battle)
20 + 1051 Elandstraat 263 (little chance to beat Mythical Man Moth)
20 + 1200 Okayama Chon (Didn't win the conference and I think conference winner is the first tie breaker.)
20 + 923 Northern Kyushu Ramen Kings (will need to win out)
18 + 927 Shikoku Otaku (would be fine in ABBL but must beat NKRK away, KS away and BBstAr away. Tough!)

20 + 1200 Okayama Chon (Didn't win the conference and I think conference winner is the first tie breaker.)

We had some debate on this last season and I'm not sure we ever settled on what is right. I think its the way you described. Others think winning the conference doesn't matter which would push Okayama Chon to #2. I guess we will know for sure once and for all in a couple weeks.

If your post is correct and if NKRK or Shikoku win II.1 then we could get 3 promotions from there. But if OC should be #2 then its 2 max.

One thing we can say for sure at this point is that MMM will be promoting. Congratulations to them!

That's probably worthy of a thread in the General section... I'm sure someone knows.