Since I became my league's host, I had some difficulty to make the elite tier full of players. On season 19, for the 1st time, I had plenty of managers to activate the relegation zone (31 managers).
"So, what's the matter?", you may ask: Well, the pro tier has active managers, but it doesn't fulfil the condition of 16 players to activate the promotion zone and, since we race in a 22 races calendar every season, it may take a while to activate once and for all the promotion zone in the pro tier. I tried to use my 2 secondary elite accounts (First Motors and Lamborghini Motorsports) to increase the number and help a bit.
In my mind, First Motors would join in the elite tier to complete the 32 managers and Lamborghini would join in the pro tier with the ballast penalty since it's a lv.18 account. But, when I tried to join with Lambo, I had the "league full" message. At first, I thought it was fine since season 19 is already over, so I could join with it at season 20. But then I thought again: "Maybe another league has the same problem with elite managers trying to join, but they can not due to this".
That's why I'm here, to ask: Why is this a thing now? I remember that it was possible to join with an elite account on the pro tier of a league if the elite tier were full and deal with the ballast, but I think this might be an issue for some hosts/managers since it would be easier to fulfil/join both tiers without this restriction.
I hope this thread might help other league hosts with this doubt. This is my league ID if needed: 138671 (Liga eSports Brasil).