Hattrick Announces: Neutral friendies

[YoSoySean]

It is now possible to challenge teams for a friendly to be played at any arena, not just your own and your opponent's. Choose "Other..." for venue in the challenge forms, then you will be asked to supply the ArenaID. If the arena is in another country than any of the teams it counts as an international friendly. Matches are played at the match time of the arena's league. For instance, two Spanish teams arranging a friendly in France, will have the match played at France's match times.

As before, if you travel abroad, you will pay the travel costs. The owner of the arena has nothing to gain from the match, except the honour of hosting it. As before, income is split between the two teams playing the match.

When you "collect flags", matches played on neutral ground do not count.


I suppose this means that neight club gets "home field advantage". If this is ture, this could be useful at least in group play of the FOFC Cup.

[finkenst]

and if you are interested in playing ateam just once...
or at a very specific time...

[MikeVic]

This is cool.

[finkenst]

dola,

we should arrange to have 50 matches on the same field.

[BreizhManu]

I think this will give a boost to friendly cups since you could now gain international matches experience even when facing someone from your own country.

That's nice.

[rickJ]

I'd probably try to set up late neutral international friendlies in random sunny US regions :)

Actually too risky :/

[FrogMan]

but this means that if the match is played, say in France, between my team and a USA team, we both pay travel fees... hrm... I'm cheap, I know...

FM

[lytic]

... whatever.

[hhiipp]

Meh, seems like more fluff with no real substance. My guess is that crowds will be reduced even more, especially if you're playing in a neutral country, how will they determine whose fan club to base it off etc. Will probably be a 'feature' I never use.

[fantastic flying froggies]

I don't really see the point myself...

[sterlingice]

It's a neat little feature for cups, if you want to claim you're playing at the Wizards arena or something for the cup final.

I like that they don't let flag chasers count them. Otherwise, it just seems kindof cheap.

SI

[akickku]

I think its a good feature, one of the main reason's why I haven't competed in friendly cups the past couple seasons was due to the fact I'd play too many games against USA clubs. I might just have to join a friendly cup now.

[finkenst]

could you imagine how badly slow hattrick would be if all 500000 users scheduled a friendly in the same country?

[Alf]

I don't really see the point myself... <table class="box0"> <tbody><tr><td>By: HT-Bjorn (http://www14.hattrick.org/common/default.asp?showpage=teamDetails.asp&UserID=68) http://www14.hattrick.org/common/images/star_GreenBG.gif (http://www14.hattrick.org/common/default.asp?showpage=aboutsupporter.asp&UserName=HT-Bjorn&showMenu=iSupporter) http://www14.hattrick.org/common/images/bookmark_10x17.gif (http://www14.hattrick.org/common/cn.asp?action=addbookmark&userid=68) http://www14.hattrick.org/common/images/Conference/thumbsDown.gif (http://www14.hattrick.org/common/cn.asp?action=ignoreUser&userid=68&t=2551809&n=6)
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13-02-2005 at 05:34 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> No, you do not get bigger crowds.

This is something that have been requested by people who organize friendly cups, who can now have the final being played on neutral ground, just like the "real" cup.

[KevinNU7]

So me and my buddy could make an agreement to play each other, but then we wait until the day of the match and schedule it quickly in a US locaiton that is Sunny. Seems kind of lame.

[Masked]

So me and my buddy could make an agreement to play each other, but then we wait until the day of the match and schedule it quickly in a US locaiton that is Sunny. Seems kind of lame.
It's a friendly. The difference in income is going to be a few thousand dollars which shouldn't make much of a difference for any team.