pudding_cupthe entirety of gold and platinum would switch is HIGHLY optimistic.
"Most of what is current UGC Platinum and Gold would switch. "
I said most not the entirety
Maybe it is Highly Optimistic, but I'd certainly make sure every team in Gold/Platinum knew about it. Which I think would be enough to get a large chunk of them to sign up for CEVO. Now I didn't say they would leave UGC either, I assume a few teams would sign-up for both.
pudding_cupI guess my point is that even if lots of people don't particularly like UGC, replacing it isn't something that would be easy to do. So many factors to consider like medals, pay-to-play, etc. I just don't want people to get the idea that if a competitor to UGC suddenly existed that people would just automatically flock to it by the hundreds.
I assume cevo isn't going to be pay-to-play, medals might be a problem but I don't think medals will prevent a sizable number of sign-ups. So long as people know about it, and their was decent rules (or even a full copy of current UGC rules that could be changed over time) they would at least get a handful of teams.
You never know maybe people will flock to it like crazy, maybe it'll take 2-3 seasons to get most people, maybe CEVO-HL won't happen, but we have to try. I got a bit tired of seeing "Let's hope their's a CEVO-HL" and their hasn't been any request for it on their site.