baldur wrote:what kind of organization is this? one group is in finland, another is in israel. Do they even know where these countries are located and how far from each other? to give the sense of an event, it would be better to be held in one country or lets say in two neighbour countries. anyway apart from that, as a turkish, this is by far the worst squad of ours i have ever seen in a championship.
It was to end empty stadiums. Usually people only went ans saw their national team playing home.So that was the idea to create a Eurobasket in 4 countries? Moreover each country hosting a group could invite a country. As a sample, after a lot or fans from Finland presents at WC 2014, France invited Finland. So games of France and Finland were sold out. It was the same stuff with Turkey and Germany. With a such important Turkish community in Germany, they (german organization) were sure to sell out 9 games. With this organization, you may sell tickets for 60% of games of the first round instead 5 games of thé local team (<10% 1st round games).
