From current season there is small change in new clubs policy - every new club created will be given chance to join only one of the 3rd divisions, contrary to previous policy, where new clubs were put in top divisions.
There are few reasons behind it:
- new clubs taking over places in top divisions during season was disruptive to other teams in 1st division,
- new clubs had to face toughest opponents, which was not great for morale of the managers,
- it will give new teams time to grow while facing opponents closer to their own level,
- there are no relegations from division 3, so there is no pressure for good results straight away.
During tests on Saturday I have detected a problem with account / club creation on the public copy (account does not switch correctly the status, allows inactive user to parts of the interface it should not), was hoping it is easy to fix, yet on Monday only some of them are fixed. New restart date is Wednesday, if the problems will continue we will start the season without option for new users to join.
That is all I have to say - random disaster, few hours without electricity, happy times all around :( Should be done with the restart by the morning, but taking under consideration how well everything went so far in 2024 something weird will happen anyway, so I moved the start of the season until Friday.