I can't speak for all, but I just don't think alot of ppl find the idea of a 1st div league with 3+ bot teams, and only 10 odd active teams not in your main league as the best challenge of a game that is designed around world wide competition.
Your in one of the bigger nations in this game so finding competition will hardly be a problem for you. There are a lot of nations that dont even have 100 users in them and it's there that competitiveness is kinda hard to find.And if your in a Nation like Japan that Malice is in then you will have a hard time finding it even in the top league.