[FSBenAD]

Fair points Chad, but it again depends on why Tier 5 exists. If its to find the best team and get them promoted, then rules which allow more of the best players to play should be brought in.

If its instead to get those people in the lower leagues (B,S,G) incentive and a place to grow, then we should keep it as is.

The other general question I have is for those teams which have a team per tier, does them being promoted at the end of the season even make sense to you guys from a personal clan point of view?

Not being critical at all, I'm genuinely curious. If i had multiple teams in each tier, having one of my teams promote and thus not having a representative at BSG or a certain level, would be a real pain in the ass, as those players probably won't have a team to play in (or be forced to play in the next division higher).

I'd imagine you would just promote/demote your players between tiers anyway between your teams in each div?

[breadfan]

The thing about just allowing player promotions/demotions to different teams of the same clan all the time means that essentially, every season is a 'fresh' season. The teams have no resemblance to the season before. Have an awesome rivalry like QED and TA? If those players end up dispersing between 3 different teams, the rivalry loses all meaning. This makes me sad.

Personally, the way I think the league *should be* (in an ideal world)...

I think the relegation/promotion system means that where possible, once a team is accepted, that should be the team. The team works together and trains together. All rules for each week should be permanently the same (but maybe revisit the 2 plats per week rule in Season 3).

Instead of 3 teams being promoted/relegated between each div each season, I think it should be more - at least in the lower leagues (the 1 makes sense at the top level, by rights it should be harder to get in to the top flight)

We should forget about T5 as the BSG league. It should be the bottom div (at least until another is added, which might be necessary if numbers swell). New teams should have a certain composition (i.e. must have X number of BSG players) but once in the league, even if everyone gets into GM in 3 weeks, they should play out the season in T5. Then rise through the ranks that way.

In this case, say TA don't get promoted this season - in season 3, all current plats and diamond players should be allowed to participate in Tier 5. If they move up into a higher division, it should be up to each espective clan and the players themselves to arrange.

This I feel makes it more of an ongoing league-style, and I would expect this is in line with the 'spirit' of the league that the admins invision. Growth can happen and if T5 becomes a plat/dia division, there'll always be other BSG players ready to step in (they make up 60% of the player base after all) to form a 6th tier.