'Tis the rule to stop teams just changing clubs.
In saying that, I thought there are no rules in the CCL, if you are the top team of your club, and you meet the criteria, you can go straight in. You don't have to work your way up from Div 7.
SAS happy to have a team start in CCL. Mainland should take the easy way out and put them in Div1 and not run with byes in CCL and the combined CCL/MPL round.
Did not think there is going to be a combined CCL/MPL round, unless it has been changed.
Top team in the CCL promoted after 20 rounds with the bottom three sides in the MPL after the 14 rounds (top 5 sides moving to the South Island League) then playing each other twice to determined which side is relegated,with the teams carry over the points they gained in rounds 1 - 14 in the MPL.