New Leagues

[McSweeny]

004-02-01 New leagues next season We've decided upon the new leagues for next season. This time we are adding 8 new leagues. Maybe they'll have an equally successful start as (for instance) Bolivia and Faroe Islands, which both have a waiting list now - before the end of their first season. We will begin accepting sign-ups now, but teams won't be given until the end of season. The new ones:

Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Costa Rica
Luxembourg
Iran
Dominican Republic
Cyprus
United Arab Emirates

8 new leagues next year, nice to see hattrick continuing to expand

[YoSoySean]

...just more countries to sift through when looking to buy players...

[BreizhManu]

I don't see any of them have a successful start, maybe cyprus and luxembourg (all those bankers bored + all those french/german wanting to cheat)

[The_herd]

I would think they would wait a bit before adding this many new leagues. Trying to log on during peak hours is a waste of time at this point, and this isn't going to help.

[damnMikeBrown]

but the new servers have worked so well!

Um, nevermind, my mistake.

[DukeRulesMAB]

Costa Rica is pretty well wired, I would not be surprised at all to see them do pretty well.

[illinifan999]

Many of the Iranians and UABinians seem to think their leagues will skyrocket.

[finkenst]

UAE is fairly well wired...

However, what's the difference going to be with the servers since they are having issues anyway?

--tim

[Desnudo]

Luxembourg has a population of 450,000. I hope they're soccer fanactics there.

[BreizhManu]

Faroe Islands population : 46 000
Number of teams on hattrick : 155
Waiting list : 30

So Luxembourg can do better

[fantastic flying froggies]

I wish they'd group the countries in regions, at least for the transfer section.

ex : Scandinavia, grouping Danmark, Norway, Finland... (probably not Sweden, they're too big just on their own...)
North America with the US and Canada...

Keeps the league well separate, but makes it slightly easier to find the players on the transfer market. I know they want to make us look hard to find our nuggets, but this is getting pretty tedious, sifting thru, what 100 countries now ?

[Icy]

Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

I wish they'd group the countries in regions, at least for the transfer section.

ex : Scandinavia, grouping Danmark, Norway, Finland... (probably not Sweden, they're too big just on their own...)
North America with the US and Canada...

Keeps the league well separate, but makes it slightly easier to find the players on the transfer market. I know they want to make us look hard to find our nuggets, but this is getting pretty tedious, sifting thru, what 100 countries now ?

Totally agree with you, it's a pain to look at each country for players to purchase, probably they want us more time into their network as apart from a game it is a bussines, but with the poor perfomance of their servers now a days, it's a real pain.

[Poli]

Finally, UAE!!! ROCK ON!!! Now when I log on there it won't look weird. Well, ok. It would still look weird.

Anyway, I'm shooting/hoping for some type of coach status over there!

[OldGiants]

Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

I wish they'd group the countries in regions, at least for the transfer section.

ex :
North America with the US and Canada...

?

Not to pick on you, but Mexico is considered North America.

And more and more, South Americans are getting their shorts all twisted about the North and South thing. My daughter just spent a semester in Germany with lots of students from around the world. She said the Brazilians and Argentines insisted there is only one continent called "America." The Portuguese loved to pull the Brazilians' chains by saying they did not speak Portuguese but South American English, of all things.

Anyway, after the Cymru thing, the Hattrick folk might simply be avoiding a hissy fit.

[MacroGuru]

Im excited, more potential u-20 and nat team players to purchase for people.

[Poli]

Met up with george of the spfl the other day, indoorsoccer.

[fantastic flying froggies]

Originally Posted by OldGiants

Not to pick on you, but Mexico is considered North America.

And more and more, South Americans are getting their shorts all twisted about the North and South thing. My daughter just spent a semester in Germany with lots of students from around the world. She said the Brazilians and Argentines insisted there is only one continent called "America." The Portuguese loved to pull the Brazilians' chains by saying they did not speak Portuguese but South American English, of all things.

Anyway, after the Cymru thing, the Hattrick folk might simply be avoiding a hissy fit.

I wasn't specifically saying the US and Canada should be grouped, I was just giving examples. How the countries are grouped is pretty unimportant to me, but the fact that they are grouped would be much more meaningful...

(and technically, Mexico is not north america but rather central america...)

[OldGiants]

Mexico is considered a part of North America by any reputable Geographic source, including the Mexicans themselves. Central America begins with Guatamala.

Try a Google search, if you doubt me. I got pagefuls of North America -> Mexico type of results.

[YoSoySean]

Central America isn't a continent... "Central America" is part of North America...

[OldGiants]

Found a thread in Global consisting of 232 posts and rising rapidly. Hilarious, if you have the time.

So far I'd say the most pissed off groups are from New Zealand and Northern Ireland. They want there own league, dammit! There's a plea for 'admission' from San Marino, and other smaller nations.

I think the real issue is everybody wants a World Cup team for their nation, not so much the extra long nation list on the transfer screen.