 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are here today looking at the upcoming promotion of FIFA Ultimate Team called Team of the Year. It's arguably one of the top promos in FIFA, and I want to take a look at what happened last year, what could happen this year, and just kind of take a look at the promos a whole before it comes out and talk about what you guys could see a little bit on the market. We'll do a later video in the next day or so talking about more direct things on the market and what you could see, but this one's just gonna be more about the promotion itself, talking about the SBCs and the content that we do get and the cards of course that come out during Team of the Year, which is like the main point of Team of the Year is getting those insane, insane stat boost, 99 rated cards, like every cards over like 95 rated, basically or 93 rated, it's crazy, but that's how awesome Team of the Year is. So we're just gonna talk about this promotion today. I know that right now we are not at Team of the Year yet. This comes out on January 6th, as it states down here at the bottom, but I'm putting this out early for you guys just so you can get a nice idea of what's going on. And of course, I'm not currently around right now as many of you guys may know. I'm on a little bit of a trip with my family, so I do not have the ability to take all my FIFA stuff with me. So that is why we're pre-recording this and I wanted to get something out for you guys that I can put out kind of in this middle timeframe when I'm not around, but also talk about something useful in FIFA and help you guys out with some information and that is looking back on Team of the Year. Now, obviously this voting, Team of the Year voting ended a few days ago, so we can't vote anymore. Now, they did it differently this year than they did in past years. I don't know if you guys remember FIFA 18 or FIFA 19, they had the ballot boxes where they would send the boxes to the YouTubers or to celebrities or professional athletes and they would put those, actually they had specific little card items, they would send them a physical box and they would like tweet at EA or send the box back to EA with their official Team of the Year vote and they would do it with their community so EA was like, yeah, it's a community vote, right? Well, kind of, I guess, but this year it's a true, true community vote because everybody and anybody who wanted to vote could click the link and go vote on these cards. We had all 55 nominees presented to us with the option of picking three attackers, three menfielders, four defenders and a goalkeeper. So it was cool that the entire community got to vote this year instead of having the ballot box system. We also got these nominee cards in packs. Of course, they're out of packs, they're rare, they're really fun to trade with. A lot of you guys know that at this time so it was cool to get those in packs. But the Team of the Year voting has ended so we're now, it's just kind of them telling the votes and they're gonna put out the Team of the Year for the starting 11 and we'll probably get a 12th player like we did last year with Neymar as well. So I'm gonna talk about that a little bit today as well. But again, I wanna just kind of go over the timeline really fast. The final Team of the Year vote will be announced on January 6th, which is a Monday, which should be like a week from now. And then those special Team of the Year items will be released in packs for a limited amount of time. Now the way that they released these is really interesting as well. I'm not sure if they're gonna do it the same as they did last year or if they'll mix it up. But last year, basically what they did was they dropped them for like one day at a time to start it off. When they've done this in past FIFA's before, last year they started with the four words on day one, midfielders on day two, and then goalkeepers and defenders on day three, and then they put them all into packs after that. So you can see right here, the four words came into packs Monday the 7th of 2019. They were in packs for one day, the midfielders came out, then the goalkeepers and defenders came out until the 10th, and then the full team was in packs over right here. The full team was in packs from the 10th to the 14th. So basically it is a one week promotion Monday to Monday, and either the attackers, the midfielders, goalkeepers and defenders, they're all out at individual times, and then the full squad is released in packs as well. So you really have to be careful with when you try to open your packs, right? Because they do this every year, and I think they switch up the order every year as well. Last year they did the team of the year forwards first, and after I'm not mistaken, in FIFA 18 they did the goalkeepers and defenders first. So I would be curious to see if they flip that around this year again for FIFA 20 and rock with the goalkeepers and defenders in the first day of packs that are being opened, and there would be five team of the year cards in packs, of course, then they moved to three in the midfield and three in attack. So we'll see what happens with that, but that is kind of the order in how it goes, right? You have a few in packs for a couple of days, and then they all are in packs for the end, and it's always a big question, when do you open your packs, right? Personally, I always just wait until the full team is out in packs because why open packs when there's three team of the year cards possible to be packed when you can have all 11 in packs, right? You never know what you're gonna hit. So a lot of people wait to open their cards until the full squad is in packs unless they change it up this year. That's probably what I would do for you guys as well. I mean, of course, wait until they're all in packs and then open them up. There's a few days where they do that. Of course, they're running lightning rounds like every single day, because people wanna pack these cards and people drop mad money in this game. I mean, for goodness sake, they dropped lightning rounds recently in FIFA when all we had in packs were prime icons. Prime icons were in packs, and they ran the lightning rounds. And you know how many people pack those? Like none, like none. So the pack went on those as crazy low, which is crazy, but they love dropping the lightning rounds this year. And thinking back to Black Friday and seeing just how many packs there were, I'm pretty sure, if I remember correctly, there were like 250,000 of the ultimate packs. So 250,000 of the 125K packs during Black Friday and that lightning round sold out. So I would expect some massive, massive pack numbers again on Black Friday. And that will again, we'll get into some of the packs and the market stuff. We'll talk about that in the next video. But again, looking at the team of the year cards, they do are out there basically in packs for a week. Some of them, you know, they're not all in packs for a week as some of them come out one day and they're out and then they come back in when the full team is in packs right there. So those are the cards. Then last year we did get a 12th man, basically, and we had a vote where we got a team of the year nominee card and we had to choose one. Or yeah, it was like a player pick, I think, and we had to choose one to turn it in for our votes. And it was kind of between, people thought it was gonna be Namar or Pogba and last year Namar won, which I'm glad he did because that card was fantastic to use for me towards the team of the ultimate team. But again, this year, I would imagine that we would get a, if not one, excuse me, maybe a couple nominees that could win the vote. But I would at least say a 12th man, I think would be very, very possible. So I would expect that to be coming out in some shape or form. And you know what, to be honest, I do think we could get some more nominee SBCs as we transition to talking about some of the SBCs we got last year. I don't know if you guys remember the Centurion SBC, which was the David Silva, a special version of David Silva, which was, they used the player moments or the, at the moments, they used the nominee card design for some of these cards, but they chose players that had a record breaking season. And I think they technically were team of the year nominees in the voting. So we had a David Silva SBC last year. We had a nominee Bale, SBC, and also a nominee Versalco for their, for the UCL final game winning goal for Bale. And then consistent team contributions for 87 rated Versalco. So I would say that we could expect some more nominee SBCs, which basically, for me, would look like these nominee cards that we had to vote on, but they give them maybe just the boosted stats, right? So they have a nominee card that's on the market, but then they give them like a nominee, or maybe they even use the team of the year card design. That would be crazy if they did that, to use a team of the year card design SBC for some of these, like the cornerstone, the champion, picking some of those guys that were in team of the year voting that didn't get in. I do think we think that we should see some of those. Other stuff that we saw during team of the year, and this was a crazy thing last year. We had solid content during team of the year last year. We got the upgrade SBCs that we wanted. We had daily pack challenges. We had icon SBCs. And of course, we did have, we had some upgrade SBCs other than just the leagues. And then flashbacks as well. So of course, I think they dropped this on day one last year, it was either day one or day two that they dropped. Well, at first of all, they dropped a flashback Tevez on day one of team of the year, which was cool. A lot of people did that SBC. But we did get these upgrades, right? And these upgrades were out for basically the entire duration of team of the season. And it was the good upgrades. Like I mentioned, a premium gold pack. So there was the Premier League upgrade and the premium Premier League upgrade, which was a 25K pack basically, the 25K pack of all players, 12 Premier League players, three rare. Now, if we get these packs this year, GGEA, thank you very much. And I doesn't say what this squad, yeah, let me look and see what this squad required. You had to have 11 rare players. So rare players definitely went up to like 1000 coins for some of those leagues. And when we start to talk about some of the leagues and which of the rare players go higher, you look at League Un. If Neymar and Abape both get in team of the year, you will see those rare gold cards in the market shoot up a lot, because there's not as many rare golds in League Un. But Premier League and La Liga are the ones that people do the most because you have your highest chance of packing team of the year cards from those. But I really, really hope that they put these packs out again. The Premier League upgrade and the premium, like EA, please just copy paste your content from FIFA 19 and put it in FIFA 20 because these SBCs are the ones that we want. Keep the requirements the same, right? 11 rare players, I'll pay the price. I will do that SBC to be able to pack a team of the year. Last year, I think I spent around like two and a half to three million coins doing upgrade packs during team of the year. It's like packs on packs on packs. It's like all we're doing. You're trying to like trade on the sides that you can make coins to do more packs as well. It's crazy. But these upgrade packs, I hope and pray that EA releases the same ones this year because these are really good packs and they're fun to grind. We had an 82 plus pack as well that was thrown in there along with the upgrades, which was cool. And again, then we had some flashback cards. And the flashback cards last year during team of the year were phenomenal. The Tevez SBC was like, it was a really good card and it was priced accurately for that type of card. Now obviously he had really insane stats, but I think he only had a three star weak foot, right? Three star weak foot, four star skills. So I remember a lot of people did this card last year and it worked out for some because you could actually kind of, you could craft your those cards last year with the upgrade packs. So if you were putting money into upgrades, you were probably getting some higher rated cards and that allowed you to go out and do either some of these team of the year nominee SBCs like David Silva, or you could work on some of the flashbacks, which we got flashback Ibrahimovic last year during the team of the year promo. I think a lot of people don't remember that, but the two like SBCs that stand out to me the most, I think were the team of the year nominee Bale, which was very expensive early on. And then flashback Ibra was a decent value when he first came out. A lot of people did him. I did that card. People used him for the rest of the year. We had flashback Casias as well, which was one that I think I might have grinded to and crafted because of the upgrade packs. But yeah, that's basically what we got last year during team of the year. We got the daily team of the year challenge, pack SBCs, which I hope that comes again. The good upgrade packs and 82 plus upgrade and then the flashback SBCs and some of the other team of the year SBCs as well, the nominees. So is there anything different that I can see this year, possibly a team of the week SBC. Last year we got a team of the week SBC over the Christmas time period when there were wrote to the final set two cards that were in packs. Now I don't know if we're gonna get wrote to the final set two this year. I'm honestly not too sure. We haven't had a team of the week SBC for a little bit of time. So I would be interested to see if we do get a team of the week SBC. I would expect probably, I know I'm recording this video early but another league SBC possibly to come to that timeframe. And we're gonna talk about these in a video soon too, because these cards, these SBCs are used a ton during team of the year for people that wanna grind tradable packs. If they don't wanna do upgrade packs people will go and grind these just to get packs. They honestly will. And even before team of the year they're gonna grind these packs to just get packs stocked up for team of the year. So we'll talk about those league SBCs at some point as well. But again, that's kind of what team of the year is about. I mean we looked at the squad. We looked at the nominees from this year. I mean the voting is in so we can't really change any of that. But that's kind of what we can expect for team of the year, right? Obviously the big cards are in packs. It's a huge promo and EA realizes that. There's tons of people that are new to the game in this time period as well. Get the game for Christmas, get some FIFA points for Christmas or just have extra time to play the game for Christmas. It means more people on FIFA which means that people can spend money in this game and EA drops content for people of all types of coin budgets and stuff like that. So team of the year is a fun one, man. It really is a fun one. And hopefully this helped you guys kind of get your minds wrapped around team of the year. Maybe remind you a little bit about what we could see. Some of the content, some of the promotional stuff that we should see for team of the year in FIFA 20. If you enjoyed it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. And of course, subscribe to the channel if you are new. It's been Nate, the foot accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.