Originally posted by gruppo
I think its time to consider switching demotion process. Bottom 8 from both conferences go back down to silver. All conference champs move up.
Wanna stay in gold...gotta make the playoffs. We would see a lot of new teams in gold. The bottom half of gold goes back into silver.this would expose the beginner teams to more experienced teams. Maybe it would eliminate the CPU teams from gold.
It would also be harder for a mediocre gold team to camp out in gold.
I could definitely get behind this idea. Every year there are at least 2-3 teams that "take a season off", knowing that they'll at least be good enough to stave off demotion on auto pilot and remain in Gold. If I decide I'm going to take a season off, I'd have no issues with getting bumped down to let a Silver team that wants to give it a go in. If I'm good enough to be in Gold, I'll make my way back eventually. If not, well, I probably didn't belong in Gold anyways.