Welcome to season 29: The training tune-up season! (Part 1)
Training has always been a fundamental part of BuzzerBeater; it is an aspect of the game which provides a lot of joy, and sometimes even some frustration. This is, of course, due to our long standing training system which limits training to a very narrow set of positions. Not anymore. Out of position training is a thing of the past. Welcome to the new training era! For example, from now on, you can train your Center in passing or outside defense while playing him in his most effective position. However, these new options come with a cost: a loss in training effectiveness of 10% is applied should you choose to use these new positions. The effectiveness is further reduced by 10% for each “step” away from the existing, old training position. Oh yeah, these “old” training types are, of course, still available and are just as effective as they were before. The combinations just expand the position range of existing training types. In case something is unclear, feel free to check out the training page and see for yourself!
Let’s not forget our loyal Supporters! This season, we have a really special treat for you guys: The Scrimmage Finder! This new feature sets you up with a scrimmage with just one click! And if there are no free teams, it will help you find a scrimmage partner quickly and easily, by sending out the maximum number of invites, again, with just one click. Of course, you can even limit the scrimmage time slot, home or away preference or team rank. To make sure our flag collection feature doesn’t become too easy or redundant, this feature will only book scrimmages with teams from countries whose flags you already collected. This will surely also raise the appeal of the Supporter package!
The Utopia experiment has indeed proved successful. Next season, we are filling the top Utopia league with human teams, and bots are becoming a thing of the past. Since this is the most competitive country in BuzzerBeater, we want to keep it that way by ensuring there’s a higher promotion/demotion rate there. We’re going to move our playout one step up in all Utopia leagues, starting this season. In practice, this means that from now on, instead of 6th and 7th teams playing for survival, 5th and 6th placed teams will battle it out! 7th place joins 8th as a certain demotee! This will surely keep things interesting since it will now be even harder to keep from relegating. On the other hand, promotion does become a little bit easier.
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