Like Chucarro, I am here for the long-term development and growth of the HGL.
I would always like to be a part of this competition. Please put my name down, Wagner.
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UTOPIAN ONLY HOME GROWN LEAGUE:
Next season I will be trying to get the Utopian HG League (name yet to be decided) up and running and hope this will slowly become bigger and bigger over the coming seasons...and years. Currently there are only a handful of known HG Utopian teams.
Sadly, this means that the current Home Grown Kings (HGK) Private League, once completed by the first half of next season (70), will be replaced with a Utopian-Only Home Grown Private League. This is due to a few reasons:
1. To remove a competitor to the HGL. Why? To funnel all HG teams into one large competition without dividing our HG community.
2. Promote and foster Utopian Home Grown teams. Why? Because Utopian teams are currently not recognised by or welcome in the HGL.
3. To provide a competition for HG Utopian teams. Why? To provide a competition for HG Utopian teams who have no other means of competing with like-minded HG teams.
So, any and all Utopian Home Grown teams wishing to be a part of this new league, please let me know via bbmail.
Thank you.
PS. If you would like to put forward a name suggestion for this new league, please do so. I would only ask, after many conversations with Wagner, that perhaps the name chosen is not too similar to the HGL.
Thank you, MrJ, for your reconsideration on this matter and making an excellent decision by restricting current Home Grown Kings-league (which name is about to change in the future, as you mentioned) to Utopian teams only.I believe this has been an important decision, and will benefit HG community way more than having a direct competitor of HGL around.
With this decision, now both leagues cater for different teams so to speak, which removes the direct competition between two leagues, HGL and HGK. (While technically of course, manager owning a Utopian team as well could participate for both leagues with their main and Utopian teams, but I believe you got my point).
The Utopian HG team count may be currently somewhat small, but I have confidence on your ability to promote the league for Utopian HG teams only, as you seem to be good at presenting new concepts and ideas clearly (and sometimes, most importantly when it gets to getting things done, also getting other people excited about those ideas).
While naturally my main focus mostly remains at finding new interested teams for HGL, I´ve also tried to think (which we all can try to think of) new ideas on how to find also new Utopian HG teams, and present ideas to MrJ.
Currently we haven't found an easy way to search/browse for potential HG teams from BB team database (for the lack of better term, as we of course don't have access to any special 'database'), but if one has an idea how this can be accomplished easily and effectively it would help both HGL and Utopian homegrown league (or whatever the name will be).
So all please share your ideas, if you have any, how would it be possible to find new HG teams (main teams and Utopian teams) most effectively.
As you mentioned, MrJ, it would be perfect if the name of the Utopian HG league (including abbreviation) in the future wouldn´t remind of HGL, to distinguish leagues more easily/clearly.
This, of course, is out of my control (and is not nearly as important thing as those changes MrJ already has decided to do with regards to current HGK/future Utopian HG league), but it´d be a good thing if those names wouldn´t be too similar.