Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20160922075848/@comment-2142533-20161022122013

So, fellow editors, is "Tribe Expansion" an official term now? At first I don't agree with it, because they didn't expand the number of castaways. But someone said in RHAP that an expansion in sports means:

[QUOTE=Expansion team (Wikipedia] An expansion team is a brand new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally. The term is most commonly used in reference to the North American major professional sports leagues but is applied to sports leagues in other countries with a closed franchise system of league membership. The term comes from the expansion of the sport into new areas. That sometimes results in the payment of an expansion fee to the league by the new team and an expansion draft to populate the new roster. [/QUOTE]

With that in mind that free-agents could be put in such scenario, I guess it does make a lot of sense to use that term.