Tx Lightening Sampaio

Itscalled, where did you hear that about D2?


Number 13, thank you for the education.

nearpost95 wrote:

frequent flyer wrote:Since TX Lightning is no longer, how will the league handle the promotion and regulation slots?  Will they still promote two from D2, drop down one from D1 and promote 3 from D3 to D2?  If that is the case, how many byes will there be in D3?  Right now, D3 will have two promoted and 3rd and 4th place get a bye for the challenge tournament, correct?  

Very likely.

In normal circumstances, D3 promotes 2 and the remaining 8 must re-qualify - the 2 teams that are dropped from D2 are exempt from qualifying.

This year they changed the rules for D3. Top two teams move up, 3rd and 4th team get byes for the challenge tournament and the remaining 6 fight to keep their spots in D3 in the challenge tournament.

itscalledfootball wrote:I was told they are relegating just one from D2

Not fair to the second place team for both D2 and D3. If that is the case then I assume that in D3 2nd through 4th place get a bye and the remaining 6 play in the Challenge tournament.

frequent flyer wrote:

itscalledfootball wrote:I was told they are relegating just one from D2

Not fair to the second place team for both D2 and D3.  If that is the case then I assume that in D3 2nd through 4th place get a bye and the remaining 6 play in the Challenge tournament.

Its the exact same deal for the 2nd place team in both d2 and d3. Top two D2 teams move up. Top two D3 teams move up. Since only one D1 team drops to D2 (since Lightning disappeared), then only one D2 team drops to D3. Now the challenge tourney is playing for 9 spots.

Seven spots up for grabs if they did give byes for 3rd and 4th in D3 as someone mentioned.

If i understand this scenario, if the season ended right now, only Liverpool Toshack (9th) would move from D1 to d2, Liverpool Hunt and Cruz Azul would move to the two spots open in D1. This puts D1 at 10 teams.

Toshack would join 3rd thru 9th currently in D2. Add NTFC black and Andromeda (both tied for 1st currently) in D3 to get to 10 teams for the D2.

Liverpool Fowler would go to D3 and if 3rd and 4th get Byes that means 7 spots open. Am I following this right? I understand there are still a couple games left and names may change but just looking to see if I have the concept down.

Fanofson wrote:Seven spots up for grabs if they did give byes for 3rd and 4th in D3 as someone mentioned.

If i understand this scenario, if the season ended right now, only Liverpool Toshack (9th) would move from D1 to d2, Liverpool Hunt and Cruz Azul would move to the two spots open in D1. This puts D1 at 10 teams.

Toshack would join 3rd thru 9th currently in D2. Add NTFC black and Andromeda (both tied for 1st currently) in D3 to get to 10 teams for the D2.

Liverpool Fowler would go to D3 and if 3rd and 4th get Byes that means 7 spots open. Am I following this right? I understand there are still a couple games left and names may change but just looking to see if I have the concept down.

That would make sense and be fair. I wonder how many teams will go for the 7 spots in D3? I don't see PPL being that competitive with the exception of the top two in their now. I don't know anything about Arlington and what they have out there. It might end up the same group of D3 teams with the exception of Juventus.

sounds about right. I think most of the 7 teams will come from Arlington D1.  A lot better competition.