Well, for the first tournament, you can have a standard league perhaps, top 16 goes to the playoffs and have it a good marketing platform and make the league grow. And make the divisions after the first cup is finished? And as Nephenzy are saying; for the smaller teams and teams that are new to EASHL it might be good enough for them to gain a promotion from div 3 to div 2 then loosing by double digits? Think about whats best for the community in the long run, have a small click of good teams in the tournament, or gain a much bigger community by involving more by having a "carrot" for them to, winning it all might not be the priority of all the teams, some teams just play for the fun of it :). I believe that close and even games are the most fun, not loosing or winning by 10 goals. With a division system, might take a couple of "Seasons" before it will be okay and even, but sooner or later it will. And you can have div 1 with less teams perhaps, making it harder to stay and win :). Div 1: 8 teams (4 teams playes semifinal after playing 2 games against all of the teams, season mode) 2 teams gets demoted. Div 2: 12 teams 2 teams promoted / 3 teams demoted. div 3: 12+ teams. 3 teams promoted.