Intro
The Welcome Cup are a official free cup of ManagerZone open to new users who register in this game (are 13 by season). The aim of these cups is to introduce them to the game giving the possibility of facing other users , as well as, receive an extra income. The Welcome Cups are played from the end of the 35 season, and although traditionally are played 13 cups per season, at that season only was played one edition, the Welcome Cup 35-13. Since this time, were disputed more than 240 cups.
It is obvious that many of the works and research articles that put their attention on the loss of users ManagerZone (the data usually sought in MZstats ) try to explain the leak and the decrease of the users from the down of these. This view can not be a plausible explanation if not consider the sign up of users and their activity and stay in the game . Nor can they be taken as valid if not in contrast with the universe of paying users and economic activity within the different products that ManagerZone offers (I mean amount of users registered in the extra leagues or the many created friendly leagues, for example).
The first objective of this article is to show an overview of this Cup , starting for to disclose the changes in those enrolled in the Cup, something that will allow us to know the potential of capture of new users registered in Managerzone. The second objective that we plan is to make a ranking of Champions Cup by country for to know which countries are the more winners.
Evolution of the sign ups in the Welcome Cups
It is a fact that the record has fallen throughout the seasons. As we said, our record begins with the first Welcome Cup, which was held during the season 35, however, the number of registered of this first cup (1,674 users) was somewhat lower than the average for the season 36 (3,487 users). This season has the largest number of user enrollment (5,325 users during the Welcome Cup 36-7), while the lowest enrollment figure corresponds to the season 49 (401 users in the Welcome Cup 49-7). In absolute terms, the difference between the highest and lowest enrollment is 92.5 % , although on average figures is 85%. As we said, this could not be immediately interpreted as a setback in the activity of users, a higher register does not necessarily imply a positive thing, it is only positive to the extent that these new users become paid members.
As for the average of the sign ups, we can see that the numbers have stabilized over the last five seasons, the average of these seasons is around 600 registered users. It seems pretty clear that the lowest enrollment period is over (it was the season 49).
Welcome Cups Champions
The first champion of a Welcome Cup was a team from Turkey, behind him, teams of 15 nationalities have risen as the best in one of the more than 240 editions have been played. During the first editions we can’t see a clear supremacy of one country over another, the winners of these edtions were quite heterogeneous: 11 nationalities were present in the first place, while during recent seasons 10 countries were present. Particularly striking is the supremacy of the teams managed from China from the season 41 onwards.
China, the more champion of the Welcome Cup
Until the season 41 China had just won 10 titles of the Welcome Cup, the win titles average was 1,6 by season. From the season 42 China went on to win seven titles by seasons (as average). True, the chinese guide for win a Welcome Cup is a relevant in explaining this element. Asked Darkline (MA) about China’s success in these cups, this is what he told us: “I study a little this issue and I come to the conclusion that the chinese have the advantage that they are “awake” when the rest of the world are sleeping, so players on market do not fight more among themselves without foreign intervention and also access to cheap foreign players who for one reason or another are sometimes offered for sale at odd times . But other than that , do not count with any other advantage I have been able to discover.” (Darkline)
China exceeds 2.5 times the second winningest country , we are talking about Argentina, and after, Brazil. It is clear that we not have a relationship between the proportion of registered users and champions by country, China has fewer registered users that Argentina or Brazil, countries which provide most new users.
Written by Rodrigoazul77
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