09-08-2024, 03:43 PMWaters Wrote: i think its part of it, absolutely. People dont associate with those places, the player pool willing to create or play there is lower.

If I was able to do it with Ireland, then all the other small nations should be able to. The winning team of S71 had 4 irish creates, one of which was the fed head. The winning team of S77 had 3, one of which was an irish recreate from a user I recruited for the S71 gold, the other two being mainstays from the early days. I don't think people had interest in Ireland as a country more than they had interest in the plan I had and the role I pitched them. This isn't to call anyone out, but with proper planning and good recruiting, smaller feds absolutely can win despite not having a massive pool of initial creates, looking at Latvia for example as a small fed who's been very active in recruiting and is on their way to a gold medal win sooner or later. This might be circumstantial, but nonetheless an example of it not mattering as much IMO.