Today's idle speculation revolves around Russian Legion and the incoming Russian teams, Art Chaos & Red Storm (Grad.) Will Kirill beat the odds and get back on the field before Chicago? Will the latest rumored European player additions replace some of last year's squad or add to it? Does Berdnikov resist the urge to jump to Art Chaos? (Is that even an option?) Beyond that the big questions are which Russian team ends up on top? Which one is the first team to gain a Champions birth?
Will the Legion slide continue? Will Red Storm be competitive in the Challengers?
And if you want to go there: Will any of last year's Challengers bail out before the season begins? Will the relegated teams take their place in D1 or disband?
The answers could depend on whether or not sponsorship shrinks any further.
I don't know about y'all but I can see a Challenger (or two) bow out--and I can see RL bouncing back and forth all year between Challengers and Champions.
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What two challenger teams were relegated? Which D1 teams made the jump?
Relegated Challengers are Jesters and Sac DMG. D1 moving up Red Storm (Grad) and D1 winner VCK.
oh wow, no poop…was not expecting DMG to drop. They'll play the D1 series for sure, Jesters I'd wager a strong probably. Looking forward to seeing VCK in challengers - provides some evidence to substantiate your claim of the widened growth between D1 and Pro players…or just the opposite :)
How is a team regulated down when they are all ranked above D1?
By rule players ranked S-P may play D1 and any team relegated will be ranked S-P--although in most cases those players will be ranked S-P or D1 anyway.
From what I've heard, RL are losing 4 players at least. One that told me this whose not Russian and three of the Russians, Berdnikov, Panteleev and Lukashuk, who are all going to AC...
Is it not logical that RL would try and pick up some TonTons players for the PSP next year? Maybe Axel, Fabrice and Tavarez? It wouldn't surprise me to see Art Chaos at the top of the champs division but I really doubt Red Storm could contend at the very top level. I've got my fingers crossed for RL though to pull something together and have a strong year, but I fear you'll be right and they will in fact end up jumping between the two divisions constantly...
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