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Thanks for the feedback, @vatalisti! The plan for ECL 7 was shaped with the help of the ECL Elite teams and this is a bit of a compromise between the ideas shared by the captains. I agree it would be better too if everyone is in, but we'll have to see what the teams think about it. If everyone agrees, we can run it 16/16 for ECL 7. Why the semifinalists get money? The thought behind that is that perhaps not all teams believe they can win, but perhaps they believe in their chances of reaching the semifinals and earning their license cost back - thus we can involve more teams. Again, open for feedback, so keep it coming! He didn't comment on your comment.

IMO it should be that either every team pays the elite fee, or no one sounds stupid that way. And why #3 and #4 gets money?

There's a huge problem here: we would either have to make elite a must-pay-division, or scrap the whole idea of buy-ins. Otherwise it really wouldn't make any sense that just one team would be enough to ruin this possibility for everyone. But I'm (kinda) with you on why #3 and #4 should get a part of the money: I mean after all, all you get is your money back. But that's not an issue in my opinion, whatever the community wants to do with this. Anyhow, great addition!

The differences between let's say top 4 and bottom 4 is just too big and we couldn't really get a league going with buy-ins.

I doubt most people would have the time to do that

If they find the right team that will play for them and support their brand,. You find most org do pay for online entry fee as it helps grows their brand awareness as most matches are streamed trough twitch that how mostly we built our following.