An Idea to Change Promotions
I believe promotion series is a decent idea, but I believe it should be restricted for tier increases instead of being included for division increases as well. It is extremely frustrating to constantly be sent into a promotional series only to lose your next two games, or win one and then lose the subsequent two (or whatever order you so desire to place the losses in). The sense of accomplishment is nowhere near as high as with a division increase as it is with a tier increase (as a two-season bronze player on my first ever account, I felt extremely accomplished the moment I reached Silver, but there really was no sense of achievement moving from bronze 4 to 1 because of the larger milestone that lay ahead; at most, it served as motivation to keep trying).
So instead of having a promotion series per every division, how about having players reach a sum total of 500 to 600 points (basically the total amount of points per tier from tiers 5 to 1) before a player reaches a best of 5 division promotion? Also, if there were to be some way to stealth a player's promotion status to the rest of his or her team, that would help greatly as a fair number of players will purposefully play quite poorly after obtaining knowledge of their teammate's promotion status. That, or limit promotion games to only other players who are in a promotion series as to have both teams with players who genuinely wish to win and increase in skill.
Just my two cents. Thank you to whomever takes the time to read this post.