<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by swimtrip:
Where is this 'automated system'? Can it be found online?</font>
Just the programming for AAdvantage. Your miles post automatically, right? There isn't some large center of agents going through printouts of the manifest and entering the miles manually.
So just like there's programming to automatically change your elite status via normal means, there is programming to automaticaly change elite status based on challenge.