Well things have changed since my post (which is now over two years old)
"I will never get to gold-I just don't stay that many nights,and platinum is impossible."

I am MR gold this year(all on stays no CC promotions)and will most likely attain gold again this year.This has been mainly leisure-although I have had a little more job related travel this year)and because of the good MR promotions last year-this year seems a little light on promos,thus I have swung a larger portion of stays to SPG.