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I’m curious as to how the promotion/relegation in Division 1 will pan out for Season 5.

At present both Druidz/Vale and redLine/k1ck are marked as [Dropped] and sitting in the big old red relegation zone.

However, I doubt I’m far from the mark in suggesting that both teams (and the community at large) would be expecting to maintain their Division 1 status next season.

Looking closer we could say that the now defunct Delirium would be a suitable candidate to be relegated, even though they are not marked as [Dropped] yet.

But this raises another question of whether k1ck or Vale will be demoted to Division 2 next season or placed into the 8th place to play-off versus the current Division 2 second place teams.

Will we have a play-off for the play-offs or is folding and reforming is an excellent way to avoid the drop? :D

joske. I totally agree but you missed one thing. as for payard. he obviously doesn’t play for em anymore. but heliana is also banned so won’t be playing for them in etf2l. so even if they were to stay in div1, which I doubt, they wouldn’t be playing with any caught cheaters. it’s their choice to use (or not use) heliana in pcw’s though

+1 joske, what is the point in dropping vale to div playoff if they will produce results that are roughly mid/high in the div1 table. when teams fold they technically havnt participated in a full season, this basically means they still should be allowed to stay in div1. vales lineup hasnt changed much anyway so they will still give the same performance anyway.

for k1ck i dont know rly, i havnt seen any pcw results to give a good view point. if delirium cannot even get a single point in div1 then they obviously arnt div1 material, im not saying theyre bad just not div1 standard but high div2 i guess

Well Vale! has Skinnie but w/e, div1 standard imo too. About k1ck, i dont know , never saw them playing.

The main reason why a dropped team should drop down a division is because stable teams should be rewarded. Every season there’s been lots of drops in div1. Will we ever see a season where no div1 teams drop? Nope, not if we reward teams that drop by giving them the division spot they had before dropping.

Anyway I agree that Vale should be in div1 next season if possible.

i think as long as there are not more than 4 drops there is no place for teams like vale to come back
first you have to promote the best div2 teams, the whole league system makes no sense if you dont give them their earned spot and give it to a “new” team

teams who drop mid-season should not be let back into the same div for the following season. let them make their way up there again. eventhough vale would clearly finish top5 in div1 ez.

but then again thats just my opinion.

Given how long it’s likely to be before the start of the next season the chances are that not all teams currently capable or deserving of being in div1 will still be around.

If the new season was the start today the teams top of div2 and the top6 in div1 that completed a full season should be automatics into div1. I guess Delirium would be replaced by vale and Imperial would play a playoff against dmg and plan-B.