Thank u!!!!!!!
And about promoting ... not only one team will promote ... there will be more, all the divisions III must be filled with teams from IV division! ;)
Yes, you are correct. There are 80 Utopia leagues, and there will be 256 spots to fill. So an average of just over 3 per league will promote. This means, as they have said, the two finalists should be assured promotion, then perhaps the best semifinal losers.
Let's assume that several of the top-seeded teams will lose in the conference playoffs. Out of 80 leagues, that's bound to happen at least 30-40 times with the fairly even talent in these leagues. So a regular-season best record in your conference should put you in the group that promotes, too. Now we've got 200 spots filled, more or less.
Teams with higher country ranking that went farther in the Cup might have an advantage in promotion. I'm not sure they've explained it exactly, so there's some uncertainty.
Bottom line for the teams behind you in the conference is that if we don't knock you off in the playoffs, we're left hoping for the best. And really, only one other team in the conference has much hope at all. So winning that first playoff game will be pretty important, but not so important that using all your Ent to do it outweighs the importance of winning the conference final, too.
It will make for some interesting strategy decisions, as we have some good teams loaded up in this conference and it will be a very tough fight to move on.