I understand the background of reason for using bots ... simply because most of T.E. players which are in millions ( from china indonesia turkey and so on are choosing the big soccer teams such Brazil or Argentina or Germany and only few (thousands) are choosing their home country .... to avoid Brazil vs Brazil like u said T.E. is using bots....
therefore I suggested two things in future IC series ...
first something called qualification made up of 3 rounds (1-national then 2 regional then 3 continental ) before reaching IC instead of three same tournament of IC
2nd managers have to have a national team according to their nationality as stated in their profile.
this would help minimize the number of teams from same nationality , keep the matches among humans only which will also increase the competition much more than now ,and increase the spent of tokens / rests and reduce the number of people winning IC coz now if u take a look on FB u will see hundreds of IC winners which is ridiculous and makes the winning of this international competition over time very normal ....