If I were part of WGT management, here is how I would have suggested the Champion tier be launched.
There would be no need for 200 extra ranked rounds. As soon as the tier was made available all players with the scoring average that qualifies would immediately be put into that tier. Thus, the saturation in the Tour Legend tier would have been addressed right away. Champion only tournaments and Ready Go's could have commenced on day 1. That would have also made the Tour Legend tier more competitive since the higher level TLs had now been filtered out.
The same could have been done for Tour Champion. All the invites could have gone out on day 1.
WGT also made an error in using ranked rounds to tier up to any tier. The only ranked rounds that should count toward player averages should have been ranked rounds played from their tier's tees and with their tier's green speeds. It's insane to let a bunch of people play hundreds of "lower your average" CC tournament rounds that are played from the kiddie tees, so that they can lower their average and move up to the next tier. (Though why they would want to do that when they would get their butts kicked is beyond my comprehension).
Now those of us in the TL tier that would like to play TL Ready Go's again, but are not on the level of Champion tier players, have no idea when the Champions will be filtered out of the TL tourneys. How long will it take for the Champion and Tour Champion tiers to fill up enough for them to have their own tourneys ? 2 months ? 6 months ? A year ?
That could have all been avoided by putting players in their proper tiers right off the bat.
Just my 2 cents (well maybe a dollar) :)