Bermuda begin their ICC Americas Division One campaign today against Argentina with head coach David Moore calling success in the tournament vital to the national team’s future.While the importance of this week’s competition has diminished somewhat following the ICC’s decision to reduce the number of team’s in the World Twenty20 tournaments in 2012 and 2014, the top two will still earn places in the Twenty20 global qualifiers in Dubai next March.For Moore, the opportunity to secure a spot at another high profile international event is essential for the team as they begin their preparations for their battle to return to Division Two of the ICC World Cricket League in 18 months’ time.“It’s vital, if we don’t get through on this, then we don’t have an scheduled ICC international cricket until 2013,” said Moore. “From my point of view, obviously, if we didn’t make it we would certainly be looking for fixtures around (the world), against the same quality opposition as us, but you want to get an opportunity . . . well, I’m desperate for our players to get an opportunity to get out there and play against some of the better Associate teams which we’ll be exposed to if we get through to the next phase.“It’s a vital, vital week.”The squad that flew to Florida yesterday bares only a passing resemblance to the one that struggled in Dubai in April, and alongside the return of Dean Minors and OJ Pitcher, the likes of Kamau Leverock, Damali Bell, and Joshua Gilbert represent the next generation of stars.Moore though doesn’t see this week as a turning point in the make-up of the squad or as the regeneration of the national team, rather the chance to give more players some international experience and the building of a healthy-sized squad as he looks to take Bermuda forward.“We’ve got 12 or 13 guys who we would have liked to have picked, or did pick, and they were unavailable for a variety of reasons. So, from that point of view, if we take that 13, plus this 14, 27 is a good number to move forward with. But again, it’s all about people’s ability to commit through their changing lives,” he said.“It’s always difficult to regenerate as fully as you would like to in a Associate country because just as you think you are making progress with one player, they’ve got to go off and earn a living, or go to school, or whatever it might be.“The bottom line is that in 2013 we have to have a squad that is going to not only take us through that tournament (ICC World Cricket League Division Three), but also take us through another couple. The thing we don’t want to lose sight of is that you can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, you can’t just get rid of all the senior players because we have done badly, because we have to also keep in mind that our performance in the Under-19s in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year wasn’t as good as we would have liked as well.”Minors is a senior player who has been brought back into the Bermuda side for this week’s tournament in Florida, and if Moore has his way the St George’s wicketkeeper will be involved with the senior side for a while yet.“The bottom line is that this is the first tournament we’ve had since our disappointments of Dubai and it will be a good opportunity for us to see who stands up and who wants to take playing for Bermuda seriously, and who doesn’t quite come to the party,” said Moore.“It is certainly a good place to start, to see how we’re fixed. You welcome back Dean Minors, who, from my point of view, if he performs well and he wants to be part of it, then he is more than welcome. Not only does he bring quality glove work to the table, but he actually, really, motivates the team and has the fielders on their toes, which is exactly what you want your ‘keeper to do. He’ll throw out challenges to Jason Anderson as well when the time comes to look at what we are going to do moving forward.“You look at a lot of these Associate countries around the world, they don’t dump players at 30-odd. You also know that the top-level cricketers are now playing until 38, 39, 40-years-of-age, so, when you drop down a level those older guys can perform at the Associate level, but they also bring so much to the table in regards of their experience, their ability to read games, and their desire to play for their country.”While the ultimate aim is to win promotion back to Division Two of the World Cricket League, the immediate focus is finishing in the top two of this week’s ICC Americas tournament, starting against Argentina today.Tob Bailey’s side pushed Bermuda hard at Sea Breeze Oval last year, before Janeiro Tucker’s century and Irving Romaine’s 80 took the game away from the South America side.Moore is expecting today’s game to be just as tough, and knows his side will have to be on their toes to avoid getting their campaign off on the wrong foot.“The issue with T20 of course is that once you shorten any version of the game it brings the stronger teams and the weaker teams closer together, so we really have to be on our mettle, I suppose, so that people like Argentina, who have some very good players don’t sneak under our guard,” said Moore.“Associate level cricket is so hard to predict, anyone can cause an upset, we’ve certainly got to be on our toes, there’s no doubt about that. We all know we’ve got really talented cricketers, really talented athletes, there’s no doubt we’ve prepared well, we’ve got to put what we’ve done in practice into action.”