First of all I agree with you guys.
And I don't see why we shouldn't have them... We are already in big disadvantage by not having played NT scrimmages, missed a lot of NT points... And we should get something for that...
You didn't miss a lot of NT points by not playing scrimmages, because scrimmages barely contribute to the NT rankings. I have posted this example before, you will see here how strange the NT rankings are decided:
34 Misr Africa 1 9 650 833 100% 69.6
35 Nederland Europe 8 3 1176 1037 71% 67.4
You see, Misr played 10 official games, only won 1, Netherlands played 5 officiale games, won 3 of them. The rest are scrimmages. So even though the Netherlands have a 8-3 record (5-1 from scrimmages) they are still ranked below a team which played more official games.
Possibly this might be expanded to having an extra election also in the case:
- the NT coach's popularity drops below 30%
This is hard to implent, exspecially at country where we don't have that meany users. Because it's easy to get the popularity below 30 if you only have about 30 voters.(I could imagine a scenario where the losing NT coach, who lost by 2 votes, just tells everyone that they should vote negative, which leads already to about 50% popularity if all the others voted for the current NT coach)
When most of the BB country are getting bigger this might be an usefull option though.