The Official Site has been updated for the second season and you can watch the preview for the first episode here (looks quite good).

Staff for episode 1 – Dangerous Race:

Script: Hiroyuki Kawasaki (He wrote all the episodes for season 1).
Storyboard & Episode Director: Hiroshi Morioka (worked under the same charges for episodes 1 and 12, not to mention he is now the series’s director along with Koichi Mashimo).
Animation Director: Minako Shiba (character designer).

The staff is pretty much the very same for the 1st episode, which was one of the bests animated episodes, so we can expect good stuff for this one.

It seems that the “big announcement” concerning Tsubasa is the release of new CD(s) Drama(s). My thoughts are: If Ohkawa is not writting it/them, I’m not interested xD Yeah, I’m that radical.
It might not be the -only- big announcement. So far all I know is that on edition 20 of SM the readers will be able to apply for a CD Drama, since all 3 have already been released, I’m assuming this is brand new.

Also, the official site for the anime has been updated with the titles for episodes 1 and 2 of season 2:

1 – Dangerous Race.
2 – Three Badges.

So yes, pretty obvious now that the second season will indeed start at Piffle, but let me clear that this DOESN’T MEAN we won’t be seeing Sharano/Shurano arc later, okay? Chill you guys, it’s probably just a change of plans.