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I dont believe that playing against teams from higher leagues is so interesting, because the difference between these teams are usually strongly remarkable.

If there really is a need to leave the cup as the way it is (hattrick way), the behaviour of the teams during the cup should be different. There has to be any possibility to boost motivation or something (by beating slightly better team in country rank), so in the end of the lucky road you can beat 1st league team with 10k players like they were 50k players. That would be interesting.

Here is my idea. In the first 2 rounds only the lowest division teams play, then the remaining teams are matched up against teams from the division above, and so on...

So for a 4 division country it would look like this:

Round 1: The 1024 D4 teams face off (512 teams progress)
Round 2: The 512 D4 teams face off (256 teams progress))
Round 3: The 256 D4 teams face off against the 256 D3 teams (256 teams progress)
Round 4: The winners face off (128 teams progress)
Round 5: The winners face off (64 teams progress)
Round 6: The remaining 64 D4 and D3 teams face off against the 64 D2 teams (64 teams progress)
Round 7: The winners face off (32 teams progress)
Round 8: The winners face off (16 teams progress)
Round 9: The remaining 16 D4, D3, and D2 teams face off against the 16 D1 teams (16 teams progress)
Round 10: The winners face off (8 teams progress)
Round 11: Quarterfinal (4 teams progress)
Round 12: Semifinal (2 teams progress)
Round 13: Final (1 winner)

This way the lower division teams would have an enthusiasm advantage against higher divisions. The D1 teams are automatically in the round of 32. I can't be bothered doing the math, but if a D4 team TIEd every league and cup game in this system and made it to round 9 then they would have a huge enthusiasm boost over a D1 team.

But it wouldn't work for countries with more than 4 divisions...

Last edited by Jeeves at 8/3/2010 8:58:53 AM

Wow, very creative. I don't see it working out here, but I admire the thought that went into this. A five-ball idea!

Wow ... that's complicated. If so, I prefer the unseeded national cup.

In the USA Cup, how many teams are entered into the Tournament?

8192 teams, over half of them bots, to make sure everyone has a fair chance of getting a gimmie 50k

though sometimes you can get unlucky with your pick and get a beast team right away......

Cup drawings are random.....so don't be guaranteed that you get a bot team in the first draw.....