[ECL 12 Qualifiers Info]

The idea of qualifications was good and it is necessary, but the execution for this season fails and I understand that a lot of it has to do with what was originally said to be the rules. I understand that you have stick with those for this season even though it would be clear already that those rules need a lot of fixing.

I agree with Mikka on many parts. I do not think that any unforeseen spots caused by teams disbanding should be filled automatically. Those should be filled by qualification. Also I dont think that announcing this midlastseason is any kind of a real issue even though it stings some teams, but everyone was surely trying to finish their best anyway? I dont see an issue with new wildcard teams getting a chance for qualification. Do we really wanna throw new teams created by elite and top pro players end up in Core or Lite? Who does that benefit, it would only ruin those divisions for everyone.

I agree though that it looks bad that some teams fire everyone except the captain to get to a higher qualification. Would be hard to enforce any rule to prevent that though because any rule could be circumvented by simply the captain changing the name of the team and making someone else the captain and then its a whole new team.
 

There was no mention originally about wildcard teams having to qualify for the qualifiers and I believe information about this was given to the teams at a very late moment and with a very short notice and that should be handled a lot better.

There were different demands to apply for ecl12 lite qualifiers than ecl13- lite qualifiers which were way tougher for ecl12. I found that very puzzling when considering that the number of the wildcard teams are the same for both. Ecl12 lite qualifiers actually has way more teams than starting ecl13-. And now only 44 teams participate in the lite qualifiers even though it was supposed to be 64. So many teams will disband from lite and higher every season that I wonder how messy will that make the current rules look in the future lite qualifiers.

The biggest thing for the future is definitely not filling the spots of disbanded teams automatically.

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Draft day is wrong in the article. It says saturday the 10th of June. Saturday is the 9th.

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Does this mean that there will be only 3 relegation match-ups from pro to lite or will there still be 4?