Originally Posted by
Dougy Giro
Is there not a "soft landing" though, so if you are platinum one year, and you for instance only have 120XP the following year, does Platinum not just drop to Gold the following year?
Yes, that is right but the dates would change. So, if becoming platinum in August, you will be Plat until August 2019 and Gold through soft landing until August 2020 (plus presumably the 3 extra months we currently get).
If concerto wanted to maximise the period of eliteness, the best would be to aim to reach Platinum towards the end of the year (in December). That way, that would give him at least two years and a bit of elite+ status from December onwards, so probably elite+ until Feb/March 2021.