New Entry / Inter Format

Entry (new EUSL players only)

Swiss-system tournament where teams will face teams with an equal or similar record to them. For example, after 3 rounds of games, a 3-0 team would face another 3-0 team, a 2-1 vs a 2-1 team and a 0-2 team vs another 0-2 team.

This would make entry flexible with how many rounds need to be completed as not each team is required to play each other once. You could end Entry at any point.

The benefit to this is that it would make entry much more engaging for new players. They would be up against a team of a similar record each week giving them more opportunities to win or have close games.

Inter

Inter could remain basically the same but as part of this suggestion to increase overall engagement with the weaker teams in the community, I suggest it's reduced to 1 game vs each team in the regular season to reduce the overall time it takes to allow for a qualification mini bracket.

Inter Playoff Qualification

The example above assumes there are 10 Inter teams. 6 automatically qualify; 4 do not.

Inter 6-10 play a mini bracket for the last 2 Inter playoff seeds. The losers go into the Entry playoffs.

You could change these numbers any which way but the main idea of this is to increase engagement to keep players in the community and filter out teams stomping Entry earlier to increase everyone's fun.

It could be argued teams would intentionally throw games to get a chance of winning entry still but I mean.... that's on them.. what losers lol. Also if it's very clear someone has thrown a game / match fixed just have very strict rules and punishments regarding it.