Season's ex post is pretty impossible without the required HOA votes.
In another thread, "gold select" season owners at SVV/R reported that they were notified from Starwood that their week had been permanently upgraded to platinum season, and the entire gold select season has been done away with. So it is apparently possible to change seasons without HOA votes, at least for upgrades.
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222385
However, I'm not actually suggesting that Starwood would try to change seasons for OWNERS of WKORV/WPORV now. Since the entire year is platinum plus, that'd be a pointless exercise anyway. No, I'm suggesting that they might overlay seasons into the SO chart for folks exchanging IN, IOW charging exchangers 176,700 SOs for Jan/Feb/Mar exchanges and 148,100 for Oct/Nov/early Dec exchanges. (Owners exchanging OUT would all have to be given 176,700 SOs, of course.)
The only reason I'd even suggest overlaying seasons now is because I'm convinced that an increase in SOs for WKORV is extremely likely now that they are going ahead with Nanea. (Feel free to disagree with me.) And IF they do this, they risk a huge backlash from other SVNers, the vast majority of whom bought under the 67,100/81,000/148,100 SO chart.
It's one thing to increase SOs to 176,700 in platinum + season at a resort like WSJ, which has 3 seasons, because an exchange is still attainable for most owners, albeit in shoulder/low season. It'd be quite another to do this at a resort that has 1 season year round, and you've just priced the most popular resort out of range for a huge percentage of your owners. And note I wouldn't have dreamt that they'd increase the SOs to 176,700 at WKORV absent the WSJ increase. I never thought I'd see a 2 bdrm in platinum season be priced above 148,100. Now I believe that 176,700 is going to be the new norm for the upper tier resorts, and the others (WKV, WMH, WLR) will be left at the lower rate. It's a roundabout way of resetting the SO chart to be more in line with supply/demand.
Anywho, that is my latest stream of consciousness. I actually look forward to seeing what they're going to do. If they leave it at 148,100 SOs, that works for me, but it would leave me even more confused as to why they singled out WSJ.