I didn't even know that was possible! Never even heard of anything like that.
Neither had I.
But it appears that now new teams when signing up are given the option to compete at a higher, lower or medium level. They can not be put into I, and from what BB-Marin said they're encouraged not to choose higher levels but given that I've seen four new teams in II the past few days I'm not sure how convincing the argument was. ;)