Sciedfelt Stretch

Sciedfelt Stretch

Native name	Sciedfelt Derlon
Date	July 19, 1946 – March 18, 1953 (1946-07-19 – 1953-03-18)
Location	Hiblund
Cause	The Independence of Frarstizk
Motive	To find a new football system in Hiblund after Frarstizk's Independence.
Participants	Fiutvel Xaire Iede uv Hivlunt Indoliiov Iede Norsterlampv Fiutvel Iede Cistruine Iede Zyntri amongst others
Outcome	Settling on the Shodiax Iede for Hiblund's football system.

The Sciedfelt Stretch, also nicknamed The Dependency Test, was the seven year stretch after Frarstizk's Independence which did not host any definitive major league for football in Hiblund. Before the independence, Hiblund's major league was the Harletical Fiutvel Iede, which, even if Hiblund stayed together, would fold due to a collapsing budget in 1950. This would be cut short with the founding of Frarstizk in 1946, and would lead to seven years without another major league. This would end in 1953, as the Shodiax League System would form and claim the title.

Cause

Before Independence

The Harletical Iede itself was more than a disaster than what you would find on the surface level. Its primary fault was the non-inclusion of promotion and relegation, but it could be led much deeper than that. The system offered little to no help to financially struggling teams, and once some clubs were hurt so much that they were forced to fold or join a different league, many protested against it and tried to bring up alternate league systems. The most notable of which was the Aulibech Fiutvel Retlevatschi Iede Zyntri, which died down after clubs from the Harletical System were secretly not permitted to move to the new system, trying to make it come off as that their clubs had free choice but chose to stay with the Harletical.

Although the so-called protests were regulated to the fact that Harletical would still have ownership as the major league, it would not stop the league from falling into huge debts. In 1944, it was privately announced to the executives that the league would fold in 1950 for budget problems, and if popularity did not pick up quickly for them, their system would fold beneath itself. This was closely held back from outsiders, and very little rumors followed.

During the offseason of 1945, major events took place on the federal level. The rising of the "H" religion was rapidly taking public matters into their own hands, trying to take hold of all language control. To wrap it up, no one liked the changes they proposed, but the west was capable of the change, meanwhile the east was not. The government caved into the idea, which sent an uproar in the east, which would (most of the time) peacefully protest to keep the change from being implemented to them.

As the civil dispute raged on, the Harletical was secretly hoping that an independence would take place so that it would detract from their budget issues when explaining the reason for their folding. In the 1946 offseason, they got their wish, as the Hiblundiiun government granted the east independence, which is now known as Frarstizk. A day later, the Harletical executives announced folding, and predictably blamed it on the national event rather than their own flaws.

After Independence

Unlike Frarstizk's simple way of creating a new league for all to enjoy, Hiblund did not gain the same success. Due to Hiblund's greater overall interest in football, there were a more diverse range of opinions in how the new system should be formatted. These changes ranged from salary cap debates to promotion and relegation, and perfect agreement on all topics were hard to come by. These debates were more than common, being discussed pretty much anytime possible within the first year of Sciedfelt Stretch. In contrast to those who truly cared about the format, there were those who couldn't care the least and just wanted to see football being played no matter what it was like.

Harletical Teams' Alliance

Immediately after the whole phenomenon took place, many of the former clubs of the Harletical made a sort-of deal claiming that, with all the different leagues being founded, they would all join one league together with every member of the alliance having a fair say in the decision. This alliance made it so that the members could not leave and go to a league without the other members having made a decision yet. However, if a decision which obtained a 3/4 vote was made, a club could refuse to join that league and stay stranded.

The initial idea was proposed by executives of the club Tintianto SC, whose main intent was to keep whichever league they all end up going to; the major football league and to keep that undisputed. All of the other clubs in the major Harletical followed suite, with the exception of VfL Pavre, of which chose to find their own route and take home in the Indoliiov Iede because of the doubt in even surviving without pay. The alliance claimed to distribute their pay to the struggling of the participants, but VfL Pavre still chose otherwise because they felt the Indoliiov was already the best choice as well. Although the original invitations to the alliance were to the clubs of the major league, quite a few former minor Harletical clubs unofficially joined the alliance, which were not paid to survive by the original members, but the survivors managed to gain pay elsewhere.