[Introducing - ECL Divisions]

I still haven´t quiet figured out why we need this change to begin with?

Why not just keep it the way it is with most teams having something to play for the entire season and were every single team at least in theory has got the chance to win the cup?

Having a league like this you will, when its free, have quiet alot of teams dropping out and not being serious enough, and this is how it is right now. I just dont get how we could ever get rid of this or make this problem less of a problem by making a division system. I´ve said this a few time but I´ll say it again, make us pay to be in the league if anything, this would probably solve 90% of the problems with teams leaving WO, not showing up etc.

Just have a look at the current standing, 52 teams total and like 45 teams still have something to play for. With this division system I just cant see how it will be possible to be anywhere near those numbers.

How motivated will like 10 out of the 16 teams in the pro division be to play when they cant win the whole thing, not even in theory? How motivated will the punching bags in elite and pro be to play the last 10 games when they cant stay up? How motivated will the middle teams in pro be to play when they not that its very unlikely that they will get promoted? How motivated will people be to play when the best thing that can happen is that they get promoted and has got a chance to win by starting from scratch in a higher division in several months? We are simply just cutting the community down quiet alot, most teams in the league will never have the chance to go up and take a swing at the absolute best out there. Most teams and players are more or less getting exluded. Would FIFA (they actual fifa) lose or benifit from going from a 32 team world cup to a world cup of only 8 teams? Sure, that tournament would be fucking amazing but it more or less excludes everyone from participating which more or less kills they whole thing.

I doubt I dont speak for myself when I say that my personal intrest for this community more or less crashed overnight due to this.

Its not like we have 1000s of teams were the difference is huge between the best and the worst. 

If we for some reason want this division top division system just make a short tournament in the end of every NHLXX with the top teams from that year (all ECL incl) and play last tournament for the best teams only or something if its so damn important to rank teams.

 

 

 

[Introducing - ECL Divisions]

I wrote a reply regarding this in the old thred. 

In a world where we got paid doing this and it was a PRO community it would be one thing, for the super teams I guess it will not matter at all but for the teams that are top 25 and worse I just cant see what is good with this.

If this was something that "we" had to do I would have wanted to see a playoff system were every team, regardless of division, could win the whole torunament. For example that the playoff winner in ECL Pro and ECL Amateur would clash in a best of 7 qualifier to get playoff spot number 8 in ECL Elite. 

Pretty sure we will see way more teams breaking up mid season and so on due to this, especially when its free to play, which is insane to begin with.

 

 

[Welcome to ECL 3]

1 hour ago, vatalisti said:

Think of the little bit weaker teams, newcomers etc. They propably lose interest at halfway if games go bad and lose alot😕. I think 4 groups and shorter regular season would've been better.                               + I think ~30 games / group is enough to tell who deserves to advance to playoffs

We will see alot (?) of teams quitting mid season because of this, that is not very good. I wrote this several months ago but its insane that this is a free service as well, if there was a fee of lets say 150€/team less teams would sign up and the teams that would sign up would be serious teams with the right and respectful attitude towards the other teams and the community in general. 

On top of that this is a kickass service and its a shame that the people running this are doing it for free, it kind of pisses me off to be honest.

[NHL Gamer reaches 1000 members]

I´d like to see a substantial fee for NHL17, like 100€/team because nhlgamer.com are worth it, this might help to get rid of teams not being serious as well.