ESEA-ShooterMessyRecipeAccording to the thread about registration here:
http://teamfortress.tv/thread/21526/esea-season-18-registration/
Registration will be open until January 5th 2015 11:59pm
If you're leaving team registration open through January 5, how is it possible that you can make division decisions prior to that?
Also it's been like Christmastime holidays and it's not even New Year's and stuff, I imagine many people haven't even bothered dealing with team stuff because they're doing family holiday things. Seems like a poorly-chosen deadline in general, unless the intention is to deliberately squeeze TF2 out while avoiding taking the blame.
I think you are taking this the wrong way. I prefered to issue a "warning" (if you can say so) to the community about the registration happening right now. Similar to what we have done in both CS 1.6 and CS:S for S13 -> http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=12094. I think it's fair and wouldn't have been nice to say anything like that after registration period ended and give 0 chance to the community to know what was going on.
Except why do you make decisions based on how many teams there are going to be BEFORE you know how many teams there are going to be? Not getting an extension isnt that big but a reduction is pretty shitty given the circumstances