Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27133964-20160927061427/@comment-28176594-20170201163253

A Fandoom User wrote: No other factor has been documented in the last couple of months; people who get to L150 get Elite status, and people who are under L150 and did not get Elite (probybly by error) during the update that brought this new feature to us, do not get Elite status until the morning after reaching L150. I see in this thread that you want to believe, but facts are stubborn –although I concede that faith is at times even more stubborn than facts. There had been cases here of previous update (McLaren I think) where people got Elite without being lvl 150. However the report are so few I wouldn't introduce a "Many Factors" theory. My bet is

a) The bug is still present but affecting less users than before.

b) These people did something strange, like delaying an update for a few days.

I think that reaching lvl 150 explains the 99% of the reports for the updates following the one where Elite was introduced and by a Okham's Razor reasoning, I consider this to be the correct condition and the remaining 1% some noise introduced by (as usual) poor programming. Not something deliberate from FM.

And going with a more risky proposition. I think the "it's a secret" it's to cover up for the fact they gave Elite to people who didn't diserve it. Tthe other two options, namely taking it away from those (many in the first weeks) people or  giving it to everybody, were impractical.