It seems kind of redundant to let the 17thJR play with 85e to "prove" themselves to be worthy of league 1 or whatever. By that argument, any other regiment should "prove" themselves by playing 85e to stay, since any other regiment in league 1 may as well have been moved to league 2 and not only the 17thJR. The fact is that the 17thJR got picked randomly and indiscriminately. Best thing to do is to just deal with it and move on. Even if it was by arbitrary choice, it wouldn't change much. If the 85e somehow lost to the 17thJR for the spot, why couldn't they just play another regiment from league 1, beat them and "prove" they deserve to be in league 1 rather than the current regiment they beat in that league? Unless any of the current league 1 regiments volunteer to move to league 2, in the face of the administrators decision any further discussion regarding this seems fruitless.
This can be prevented by taking the scoring of last RGL let say like ; teams that ended the last RGL at 9th and 10th has to do matches against league 2's 1st and 2st or just drop the last two to league 2 and take in the first two to league 1 from league 2 . But in this case I dont know any solution to new formed teams , as they might have really good players thus deserving a spot on league 1 but to be fair they should be put to league 2 . If they get 1st or 2nd spot in league 2 give them a chance to come league 1 as I gave some options about ascending teams and descending .
I was considering the possibility of applying the previous season's ranks and use them to justify sending a league 1 regiment to league 2, but that would also clearly cause trouble as you can imagine. The reason being the very fact that many people have changed regiments etc. and so do not have the same (good) players they may have had previous season. And perhaps those who did bad last season may have new players and have become alot stronger. Either way, the same problem of making an exception occurs, because one is unable to justify it without letting it apply to everyone else as well. Another problem is the fact that every league 1 regiment and league 2 regiment (besides 85e) has
chosen to be in that particular league of their own volition. So to swap them out or in based on rankings from previous season would only defeat the purpose of this choice, and the regiments desire to play in the particular league.
Though the 17thJR and 85e are still free to do their match on their own, outside of the restrictions of RGL, just to see who "should" be in league 1 or not. But without sounding biased, I think we all know what the outcome would be regardless, so in the end it seems like a redundant discussion.