[Bugalugs McScruffin]

So, a quick couple of comments...

First up, I'm a little bit confused about why people keep on splitting these into Pro, Clan, BSG divisions. Sure, this would be a good guide when you first start to sort out what teams start where, but it's not the aim of the different divisions. The aim of the different divisions is to ensure that you have clan teams (as opposed to pro teams) that would be working together and trying to improve as a team.

The basic setup as far as I understand it from what Frogmite and Maynarde have said before is a set team (or teams) from a clan, as you would have in any other sport. They are placed in a division in which they compete for that season. At the completion of that season you have the top two teams from the lower division playoff against the bottom two teams from the higher division. The winners end up in the higher division the lower teams drop to the lower division. This means that by the second season you shouldn't have the pro-team, clan league, bsg league distinctions. They might generally be true, but you will have teams that are in a particular division not league restrictions. The reason we want to get away from league restrictions is because it encourages players to smurf in various forms (either loss tanking or not laddering on SEA). If a team dominates in season one they will get a chance in the playoffs to be promoted into the higher division where they can play against better opponents and have the chance of a cash prize.

This is a rough analogy, but in the end I think this should be considered a bit like Code S and Code A for the GSL. Everyone wants to be in Code S, but you have to earn your way there. A team could start in the bottom division at the beginning of next year and then over a couple of seasons work their way up as a team to the top division where they get the chance to try and take down the recognisable names on SEA. The only thing that may put people off of this format would be that individual teams would have to have rosters that stay generally the same between seasons. They may be able to 'pick-up' one or two new players in the next season, but if it was a majority of new player is would have to be considered a new team and seeded accordingly. This is different from a team that has a majority of players who are still the same, but have all be promoted on the SEA ladder. They advance based on performance in the previous season/playoffs.

Hope this wall of text is not too confusing, and directs people away from thinking about this as 3 clan leagues smashed together.