Subject: National Federations

National Federations






For this season’s PM patch we are proud to release the new National Federations system. This is what you need to know about it:

There will be a national federation for each country. Each federation has a president, elected by the national users.
The election of the president works like this:
- You can vote only concerning the federation of your country;
- You can vote on any national user that has come forward as a candidate;
- You cannot vote for yourself.

Users, after the election starts, will need to officially state they’re candidates so other users can vote for them. There’s a period of 3 days for candidates to present themselves before the real election starts. The candidate with more votes after the election period of 7 days is the new president.

The president of the National Federation will be the user responsible for nominating the National Team managers of the country (both the main NT & U21 managers). Therefore, the direct elections for these jobs has been be abolished. (The current U21 NT managers elected by the users will remain for another season, though. After the season ends and the next WC has been played, they can be replaced.) The president can name whoever he wants, of any nationality, except he can not nominate himself; a president can’t ever be national manager at the same time. The user nominated for the manager job will still need to accept the proposal, of course. The president will also be responsible for the firing of the National Managers, and will be able to do it anytime he wishes.

Other presidential tasks include:
- All presidents will decide amongst them who will host the next World Cups (using an internal voting system);
- Presidents will be able to choose the stadium used for NT games: the national stadium;
- Presidents have the ability to change the name of the first division of the country by creating a national referendum in which all users from the country can vote;
- Presidents can change the name of the national federation, also subject to national referendum.
- Presidents can set the national team kits.
- Presidents can set the national URL, the federation logo and a lot of other minor options.
- Presidents can send national announcements to the community.
- Presidents can nominate vice-presidents: these have all the options the president has except creating referendums, firing/nominating National Managers and voting for the World Cup site. They can’t be National Managers either.

National referendums are open for 7 days and can only be made once a month (for each type of referendum).

A president is elected "for life"; there’s only two ways to get him off the presidential position. One of the ways is simple: he quits the job himself. The other is through a "revolution". A revolution works like this:
Every election, the president is elected with a certain number of votes. After he’s elected, people can choose either to support the current president or to support a revolution (in the federation page). If the number of users supporting a revolution is greater than 75% of the votes the president got on the last election, a revolution takes place and a new election is started. If the number of votes he got elected with exceeds the number of users in the country, the number of users will be applied instead (so, if 75% of the total number of users are against the president, a revolution will occur).
During an election the president cannot use any of his powers. If the election was started because he resigned, nobody will be able to vote for him (he won’t be able to set himself up as a candidate). In case of a revolution, he can take part as a candidate if he wishes to do so.

This will obviously deeply change the current NT managers system, but will hopefully work more sensibly and give the users more power over who is in charge of their national teams.
This will be also be an important base for a lot of planned features. New referendums will be added to the federation’s list of actions as these new features are developed and laucnhed. In the future, our plan is to give the federation alot of powers concerning specific country-based rules.

Soon we will announce what’s next in the list of planned features; these will be developed for release next season. A new minor patch will be released in the upcoming days, focusing mainly on page and stat-related optimizations.

Happy playing!

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