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Exceptional team status. Exceptional. Wondering how this will work. Now after this tournament you have 16 teams for elite division and 16 for pro division yet you have unknown coming in with exceptional team status. You have set elite and pro division to have 16 teams each, teams has fought hard for these spots for over 40 games. Are you going to drop one of these teams for unknown? I reckon similar things are bound to happen alot. Whole exceptional team status is kind of controversy. Where you are going to draw a line? Who gets accepted and who doesnt?

Right now it will be 16/16/18. However, assuming that all the remaining teams will take part in the next tournament, there will still be at least additional 5 teams. That means we will play 16/16/23. Many of the teams out of these 23 teams in divsion 3, will in fact be consisting of former div 1 and div 2 players. Because, fact of the matter is that all teams in the current top 32 will not stick together for the next tournament. Instead, lesser teams 32-40 will step in and fill in those gaps only because they decided not to form a new team. You mess things up from the gecko with such a wide divison 3 since it will be so hard to reach division 2 in the first season. Many ok team will stop trying. However. In a couple of tournaments, division 2 will be uneven in numbers of teams even with todays format, not least due to the exceptional status-rule since many expierenced teams will start over and ask for that status. If the staff don't want the community to die, they will have to grant more and more teams. So whether you like it or not, division 2 will be the division that grows the most. On the same note, Division 3 will get smaller by each tournament since most people don't have the time or energy of taking part in that wasteland. Why not make division 2 bigger from the gecko? Whether that means 24 or 32 teams can be discussed. That way, we don't risk missing out on many teams in the craddle. This tournament had almost 60 teams from the start. We have to cherrish each and every team. Otherwise, it will be really hard to rebuild this community. It will be even harder with 3 divisions. I tell you dude. Division 3 will die. In the end it will be the smallest division by far, if it even will exist at all. Why not make things right from the start? I'm not a big fan of 3 divisions. However, since the staff already made up their mind about this matter, I focus on telling them this one thing. Right now, division 3 only makes sense if it's really, really small. Division 3 should focus on giving teams like Terrific Tigers, Elänäm Kiekko or West Coast Wasps a chance of reaching division 2. Not focus on teams like Company of Geeks, Baltic Sea Eagles, Ducktales or a expierenced xbox-team (this will be a missed market) that want to try out the ps4 community (pelikirja for example etc) a chance to reach division 2.

Well, yeah. For the first season, the turn out of teams in the casual league will probably not be that great. But compare that to the huge division 3 where no one wants to play. The upside with a casual league is the fact that it don't risk hurting the community the way division 3 might do. Also. Tokfan made a great point about a bigger division 2. 16 teams in the playoff is way more exciting than 8 playoff teams. There we have something special that makes division 2 unique in its own right. Dynamic!

I like this suggestion, not only because you are my teammate. = ) Keep ECL Elite division as it is Scrap the ECL Amateur division 2 divisions instead of 3 (ECL Elite and 2 or more groups in Pro division(should not be more than 16 teams/group)) Scrap the "Exceptional Team Status"(new teams need to start in Pro division instead) Pro division: 16 teams in playoff instead of 8 Keep this one: "The top two teams (finalists) of ECL Pro are instantly promoted and will play the season after in ECL Elite." Keep this one: "The teams finishing in spots #3 and 4 (the losers of the semi-final round) will then move on to face teams #13 and 14 (one each) from ECL Elite in the Relegation/Promotion Round (7 games)."