Investigation Finds Genesis League Developers Only Ever Played 7 a side on their Local Astro Turf Pitch

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An investigation was launched by the Hive Gazette into the new game launching on Hive called Genesis League Goals to find out why the games are only 7 a side rather than 11 a side like in reality.

Genesis League play with 1 goalkeeper , 2 defenders , 2 midfields and 2 attackers I , Charles McGarnacle is going to find out whether they meant what they did or the Genesis League guys are just a bunch of silly billys.

When the test Beta launched users were irked why there wasn't a full team of 11 out on the pitch. Genesis League was classed to be something like a trading card based soccer game which would be a cross between the famous Football Manager and Sensible Soccer but users were disappointed to see that the game left much to be desired as regards the number of players on the pitch and not being able to see the whole pitch like in most football games.

"They haven't been answering calls from the MLS this last week" as the developers race to add 4 more positions to the game" said one source.

"These guys play soccer every Wednesday night at 9pm when they go and play 7 a side at their local astro turf pitch with small little goals. They blow off a bit of steam after listening to the constant moaning and whinging in Discord Mav Chat all week and this game clears their heads a bit. But the developers actually thought this was the game having never watched a real football or sockkkerrr match (as they call it in the states) in their lives.

But this Wednesday night there is a massive sprint to add a left back and right back and a couple of wingers to make sure the MLS don't think they are a bunch of nerds who look like they have never watched a football match in their lives.

"We just thought this was the game of football" admitted one developer who plays in goal at Astro every Wednesday.
"If we had known then we would have added 11 players at the start as it's more money in our Genesis League coffers if we have 11 players rather than 7 playing."
"So Jimmy Python is frantically doing the FOR and WHILE loops for the coding of more positions."

It was first learned by the developers that there was 11 a side in a football match when a developer mistakenly turned up at the wrong stadium for a Dungeons & Dragons extravaganza and was caught up in an MLS game so decided to stay and watch to discover what all the fuss was about. The dev dropped his Bud Light in shock at seeing more than 2 defenders and midfielders and immediately sent a message to the rest of the scrum back at the mothership about these left and right wingers and full backs that were running up and down the pitch.

"But the MLS delegation are coming tomorrow!!!" was the reply shouted down the phone.
A plan was made overnight and it was decided that they would go into full metal Elizabeth Holmes mode and create the smoke and mirrors to get them through their visit by not showing them the game.
After having watched Theranos and the story of Elizabeth Holmes on Disney, the developers got to work and managed to greet the MLS delegation before they arrived at the Genesis League offices and whisk them off to a local bar to watch Messi's first game with Inter Miami.
To speed things up whiskey chasers were purchased after each drink and the delegation couldn't tell the their arse from their elbow. When Messi scored that was the end of it. The strippers were called in.

"Most of these MLS delegates are ex footballers who have a wondering eye so we made sure Natasha and Samatha were on hand to show them a good time."

The devs ended up just showing the delegates a Splinterland's battle and the delegation loved it and thought it was a Genesis League match.

"There is such a likeness to Wayne Rooney man" said one delegate
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"But that's not Wayne... thats Krun Fireblad" interrupted one dev until another dev stopped him in his tracks.

"Shut the hell up Brad you dufus, play the game mannnnn."

It was a lucky escape for the Genesis League Devs who lived to fight another day but spent the whole next day suffering at Splinterlands HQ getting sick into various buckets while they were meant to have been working on Runi in land protocols.

"However the dev's luck ran out after the games soft launched last week and it was still only a 7 a side and the pesky do gooders that purchased 100 packs let the cat out of the bag on their glitzy Youtube channels and showed the actual gameplay." claimed one dev.

"People expected FIFA 24 and they got a crap version of Subbuteo but with 7 players. However look back at who remembers that Splinterlands was fairly dire when it was in Beta and look at it now." "Fan bloody tastic."

"The jokes on them really" said one dev.
"Genesis League needs to succeed so they are effectively undermining their own investment by bad mouthing the sister game but these guys can't see the woods for the trees so we just say nothing."

"In a year or 2 they will be the OG's and substantially better off once we fixed this minor faux pas with the gameplay."

"So it's heads down for the next couple of months and we will be home free and this little faux pas will be long forgotten. The problem now is getting the touch downs coded and then we are done."

"Apart from the scrolling feature and the amount of players on the pitch the game looks good" declared one dev.

"But isn't the whole game based on the scrolling feature and a few players" interrupted Brad

"Shut the hell up Brad. Get back to coding the quarter backs in Phase 2 of the game."