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I always found it easier just to make my own comps than to revive older ones.

Make Brazil a selectable league then choose to start with Brazil in February. Then the game bypasses the date and lets you play it. This has happened with other leagues I made too in past editions of the game.

I ended up doing another test to see if it was just Europe and Africa where the players all get African characteristics. If you take local regions in Africa and make them local regions of New Zealand, most get dual citizenships but maybe at most like 5% of players have their look and name change.

You could make all of the groups yourself then make a "playoff" where the winners of each go to the playoff.

You will not find wonderkids who play in places like Africa and Asia for the most part without changing youth ratings. You will really only find African and Asian players on foreign super power teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona and so forth.

I need to have only the 4th and 5th place teams from a competition qualify for a tournament. How do I accomplish this? Thanks

It's very simple to do. Just make the tournament in basic rules then go to add international rules. Add your tournament into international rules then go to teams and select the option "pick specific teams" and the teams you pick will be the only teams that qualify for it.

I created custom tournaments with international rules on a database, along with new custom teams. I then created a new Australian set-up with all new competitions and new teams. There's no way for the original database to recognize the newly created Australian teams without database mergers (that come with many problems), so they can't play. You would think you could do it through the Club World Championship, but the CWC does not recognize the new Aussie system. There are two ways you can make these teams from different databases play though: 1) Friendlies 2) For this case, making finishing in the Top 8 in the Asian Champions League a qualifier for a custom tournament on the original database allows you to play the Australian teams (provided they do well enough in the Asian Champions League).

Real easy to make. Make all current Belgium comps extinct. Create 4 new comps. Then go to Nation Rules and add them one at a time. You're going to run into a hard time by doing the sub divisions, and I wouldn't bother unless you know what you are doing. I would work off of this series (Video #3 and up will be more of interest):

You just want to make a game between two teams right? Like say Man U and PSG? All you have to do is make a new competition in the editor and call it whatever you want. Go to international rules, add it and fill out the details. Then save it, verify it and go to advanced rules. You can then pick the two teams from there. Here's mine - it just has two different Celtic teams in it.

So, I used International rules on one database and a custom Australian pyramid with Nation Rules on another data file. You may know or not know, but you can't play with two sets of Nation/International Rules minus a merge where leagues exist but aren't playable. So there's no way for one of my Croatian teams to play with my Australian teams. However, there is a workaround. The various Champions Leagues feature teams from various countries (The Club World Championship will ignore the teams from the 2nd set of nation rules). If you want to have the Croatian teams in this situation play against the teams from Australia in this situation, you just have to create custom comps and use the best 4-8 or whatever teams from the Asian Champions Leagues. Then the custom Australian teams should pull up despite being on a different set of nation rules. Obviously, you will only be able to play a couple of those teams, but it's a way to make it happen. I haven't gotten to try this yet, but it should work.

Yes, and I would just make it independently in basic rules. If you reach any team limits, make copies of the competition and call them different groups. Then make a playoff, go to advanced rules and make the qualified teams all the group winners. See here:

I tried changing Turkey and there were no name or appearance changes, but everyone got dual nationality. I tried changing St Kitts and Nevis. The players appearance and name both changed with the players getting dual nationality.

It also looks like the playoff tree is automatically created if the custom tournament is made in basic rules and not touched in advanced rules.

So here's an interesting development. If you change Jamaica's local region, the players appearance will change, their names will change and they will have a dual nationality. If you change Costa Rica's local region, the players appearance will change, their names will not change and they will not have dual nationality. Changing Nigeria's local region does nothing, just like South Africa, Tunisia, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe (though I'd say like 5% of the appearances maybe changed). Changing France's region will change the player's appearance, names and will add dual nationality. If you change Cambodia's local region, you will see appearances and names change along with players getting dual nationality. If you change Iran's local region, you will see appearances and names change along with players getting dual nationality. It seems like there's a near total lock on Africa for any kind of editing of that nature.

Interesting. The only way to create it like this for a custom comp would be to do it in Advanced Rules, right?

I love the various awards each season on FM. I wanted to create my own, so I created a U-21 World Team of the Year Award. It's fairly easy to set up. In the awards section on the editor, you want to assign this award to a squad of players over individual players. You then can choose the option that says to get stats from the whole year. All you then really need to do is set the maximum age to 21, 18 or whatever age you prefer and it will be created.

Sometimes, competitions have a visible standard tournament tree/bracket to track results like this: Team A - Team B - Team B Team B Team C Team C - Team D - How do you get this to appear in the game? Sometimes it appears for me for custom comps, sometimes it doesn't.

Can you explain a little more about what you were trying to do? I would use this video series as a guide. I set up a 4 group system with this. I made Croatia with 4 different groups at each level with the top level having a championship playoff. I made Groups 1-4 then went down the line with Group 1A, 1B, 1B and so forth and then did the same with Groups 2-4. I highly recommend only doing this in basic rules. I cleared all local regions for various teams and deleted any existing competitions. I also remember with relegations that I had to have at least 4 total from each level so each group would at least have 1 relegation. Here's my save file for what I did.

I don't know about how to qualify teams that are lower in the rankings. There's an option in advanced settings for teams to choose the lowest qualifying teams of a comp. That's how you would handle that one part, but you could and should handle a lot of this in basic rules insteas if you can. Relegating is just picking a number of relegated teams. But you just make an umbrella competition (Comp A) then two competitions (Comp B and Comp C). You have Comp B and C both use Comp A as the parent competition. I would use this video and other videos in his series as a guide:

It seems like there's a little more to it. I tried adding Scotland as the local region for a bunch of US states/cities and then for South Africa and Zimbabwe. I saw very little success with South Africa and Zimbabwe while it worked great for the USA.

I ddin't hear anything about it, but not that many people use it so who knows. Does anyone who have it know?

I would work off what this guy did here:

I would just make your own. It's much easier. Make your competition in basic rules, then head on over to advanced rules. Pick the dates and for the teams, you just want to select by "last winner of", then choose the competition. Use these two videos for guides: USATest.fmf USATestwCups.fmf

Check out this vid - He has some other videos around the same time that may help as well like: