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You might want to be in the cup match for a couple reasons:

1) Winning it is awesome, and you get a trophy on your case.
2) You can select "crunch time" or "take it easy" for cup matches, so you can affect your team's enthusiasm for upcoming matches. You can't do that with scrimmages. That is, you can trade being in the cup for a few "take it easies," making your league games easier to win.
3) Home cup games give you money, and home scrimmages do not (at the moment). So, you'll get more money if you stay in the cup.
4) Seeding for the cup is completely random, at the moment, as is whether or not you're the home team. The team match-ups ar randomized after each cup came as well, so you can't really plan more than one game ahead.

The cup is intended as a fun add-on to the game. If you don't feel the need to stay in the cup, use it just like you would a scrimmage - play those players who haven't had too much play time, get in that extra bit of training, and don't care too much if you lost a game. That's up to you. We wanted to give users a way to play against random teams, and see how things play out.

Oh I like the Cup, it's also probably my favorite part of Hattrick since the regular season in Hattrick is so meaningless financially.


Any chance (since it is totally random) that Cup proceeds can be split to reward teams for winning games in it?

Since we're going to be giving at least some money for scrummages (split evenly between the teams, we're going to look into something similar for cup games.