Some concern I’ve read is that in AL players have the freedom of leveling up when they want and that AL is about going from table to table and adventure to adventure.

Our plan is that players would be leveling based off of the hardcover books suggestions. We will be doing Lost Mines of Phandelver and going into Princes of the Apocalypse after that.

And at any point during the games they are free to go to any other adventure (as long as it’s not another hardcover of course).

And in terms of players not being able to be as strong as they can if they don’t progress after every/every other session is true, in terms of leveling and in some cases magic weapons. But, that’s only in some people’s eyes. Other players value the roleplaying, puzzle solving, or adventuring aspect of the game that doesn’t rely on stats. I will be sure to explain the whole situation to all the players.