I like this kind of discussions, especially when people with opposing opinions do not insult or attack each other but instead argue reasonably and defend their positions with solid arguments and examples. Thank you very much for that!
As to the advantages of being in a small country - enough has been said already. I totally agree with you that if I had to compete in Poland, China, Italy, France, USA etc. it would have been waay harder, if not impossible to achieve this. No doubt about that. It`s not something that depends on me though... Believe me, I would gladly trade leagues with you. I`d much rather look forward to every game in the week, not knowing how it will end instead of just managing minutes (which is very easy also because of garbage time).
It`s really a shame that teams from top countries struggle in B3 and we all know that the reason is not poor management. Hats down to managers like mamba888, darkonza and LA-Saur0n who managed to achieve multiple B3 titles (I am counting darkonza`s second title because it was at his mercy) competing in top leagues.
As you said the smaller number of users makes it easier in B3, but harder with the National team. That`s why I`ll now sell off (although I could have probably pulled off another title next season) and focus on achieving success with our NT in the future. I will try to win B3 with an Utopian team in the next 10-15-20 seasons but only time will tell how funny this comment will look 4-5 years from now, if BB still exists of course.
Lastly regarding the "no homegrown players" part. In order to produce 2 or 3 decent homegrown players you have to be incredibly lucky in the draft and you have to skip the "train for profit" part, which makes it harder to "buy" the title. ;) I`m very happy that I managed to buy and train the two best Bulgarian players with suitable age. My Latvian center, whom I`m most proud of, has been training in my team for 8 seasons, other players that I trained and sold for profit also made their NTs. I don`t really think I bought the titles by tanking...
So mate, lets agree to disagree.
Regards