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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Yes, team promotion / relegation between leagues is a new feature. Essentially you can, for each unaffiliated league, define several related rules, i.e. how many teams get promoted / demoted (you can define X by league, sub league or division) or to which team they get moved.

Now, when the season is over, you can have the game automatically handle the promotion / relegation (based on your settings) or easily select the teams individually (for example if you have played an exhibition tournament to determine the teams).

And yes, the AI is aware about its situation in terms of its chances of promotion / relegation and acts accordingly.

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

And yes, with the tournaments, we'll have some new playoff formats that can be used in regular league or association playoffs. They won't be exactly the same, but we'll likely have playoff formats available similar to what's being used in the upcoming WBC (where the first playoff round is a round-robin tournament) and what was used in the previous WBC (which is a sort of modified double-elimination tournament)

Well, heck, I would have pre-ordered anyways, but this is fantastic, thank you!