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I think that it is good to have a break in the schedule. Personally, I would eliminate the double cup games that week, since it is confusing to a lot of teams (in the large countries, 64 teams play the Tuesday cup game, and 32 have to play a 2nd game.

I would move the All Star Weekend to the previous weekend. This would place it closer to midseason (after 12 league games, with 10 remaining).

There can still be some more interaction added, such as having a pair of owners actually controlling the squads, player vote totals showing throughout the season, and owners being able to vote (perhaps you could vote for 3 players from each opponent's team after your game).

There could be a "rookie" game on Saturday. This could be limited to U21? who aren't on the All Star teams. If there were too few players, the age limit could be expanded. The ASG could be played on Sunday.

This would mean that the week before the ASG was normal with a cup/scrimmage date on Thursday. Then everyone would only play 2 games in the week following the ASG. Perhaps there could be an adjustment to the game shape that week since the players will have had the weekend off with their families.

The extra cup round (needed for countries with 5 or more divisions) could be moved to the first Thursday during the playoffs. This would be the cup final, and only involve two teams. Or the cup final could be played on the Sunday before the playoffs, the day after game 22. The two cup finalists would get an extra game that week/

Or the semifinals could be moved to the Sunday after game 22. This would involve 4 teams, who would play 4 games that week (Game 20, semifinal, Game 21, and finall/scrimmage).

that thuesday-game for teams in the cup is especially added so more teams can join in and compete for the cup.
If BB cuts it a lot of teams will not be able to play in the cup, and I don't think that is an option.

Moving the gameday to another day results in the same thing. If that thuesday a game is played, more teams can compete in the cup...
Also I don't like the idea of putting the finals of the cup into the play-offs. If a team is in the play-offs and needs to play the cup finals this is almost imposible to line up their players unless they have 3 very similar players for each position, all A-players and no B-team...

I noticed that the draw for Spain and Italy was expanded to 8192 teams. I wonder when the final will be played. With 4096 teams, there are 12 rounds, and the regular season is 11 weeks, so you have the extra round during the ASG.

The problem with this is that you have more teams in the larger countries playing the extra game because you are still in the middle of the cup. In countries with 5 divisions, 64 teams play the single Tuesday cup game. And in smaller countries, you have a double round even though it is necessary. In countries with 3 divisions, it is actually the semifinals and final that are played around the ASG.

Every season there are teams that are surprised by the extra game. But if the extra game were at the end of the season, then there would be many fewer teams playing the extra game. I would place the extra games at the end of the regular season. For countries with 5 divisions, this could mean that cup final was played on the Sunday after the game 22 of the regular season.

For countries with 6 divisions, the final two weeks would have two cup games. The octofinals (10th cup round) would be played on the regular Thursday, its regular schedule. The quarterfinals would be played on Sunday, the semifinals on Thursday, and the finals on Sunday after the last regular season game.

No one stills refers to the issue of my first post.

The issue isn't the cup's calendar. The calendar is good and is not necessary to change it.

The issue is the fact that all the teams that are out of the cup, in their coutries, will not have a game that particulary tuesday (the day before ASG), and so they will have only 2 games in that week.

Why not permit to those teams set two friendlies in the ASG week?

There is nothing wrong with a week with only 2 games so that the ASG is set off as something special.

It doesn't make sense to have two cup games in one week, with one played on a league night, and the other only 2 days later.

No one stills refers to the issue of my first post.

The issue isn't the cup's calendar. The calendar is good and is not necessary to change it.

The issue is the fact that all the teams that are out of the cup, in their coutries, will not have a game that particulary tuesday (the day before ASG), and so they will have only 2 games in that week.

Why not permit to those teams set two friendlies in the ASG week?

Why not in the play Offs, sometimes in is an advantage to be succesfull ;)And i think because of the fith place teeams its more important to do something in the play Off then in the cup