With great pride, the organisers of the Cuppet would like to formally welcome applications to enter their second installation, once again to be held in Polar Islandstates
The Cuppet is intended as a competition for puppets, sub-national regions, and lesser footballing nations, taking the VIVA World Cup as its inspiration, with the main entry requirement being that the nation is not affiliated with the WCC or a part of the KPB rankings. Realistically, this could restrict entry from a number of teams, so rules have been adjusted below accordingly.
SCORINATION:
The tournament will be scorinated by way of xkoranate 0.3.2 SQIS formula. RP bonus will be generous, with a roster counting as one RP.
FORMAT:
TBA once the signups are shut, but expect to see equal sized groups of between 4 an 6, with playoffs favoured over tie-breaks in the case of runners-up/third-place from different groups contesting entry to the knockout stages. There will be a third-placed-playoff, and only single round robins.
ENTRY:
Each individual user may enter up to three entrants into the Cuppet, as long as each obeys the following rules:
- FOR ALL ENTRIES, any KPB rank that team may have must be <2.00 on the latest KPB rankings available to me.
- FOR ALL ENTRIES, any team entering cannot be either signed up for the next WCC-cycle, or if it is already in action, the current WCC-cycle.
- FOR SUB-NATIONAL ENTRIES, in the spirit of VIVA competitions that see sub-national entries like Provence and Catalunya play each other, sub-national entries are encouraged to enter the Cuppet as well. These sub-national entries would ideally need to have an IC reason to justify their entry into the Cuppet, but it isn't mandatory for the user behind the 'master'-nation to create a new account for the sub-nation - provided their RPing as the sub-national entry was made explicitly clear during the sign-ups and rostering. Sub-national entries will be limited at two-per-user and will count from the limit of 3 entrants overall.
- FOR SUB-NATIONAL ENTRIES, your team roster must not contain more than ten players who have caps for the full national team of which your sub-nation is a part of. Please also note that your side will be playing teams of amateurs from around the world with enforced similar ranks, so a team crammed with national team-ers getting beaten by a team of postmen from Bjarnarey could be intensely embarrassing for your nation.
Please Note:
This tournament is not affiliated with the WCC events at all, and only uses KPB ranks as a guide for entry. Your team's performance in the Cuppet neither affects, or is affected by, KPB rank. If a new nation/puppet goes from entering this to entering the Baptism of Fire, it will gain you no advantage and may stop you entering the Cuppet in the future. A lot of this tournament will run on the honour system, and trusting users not to mess things around or try to manipulate the system. So be nice, please.
RANKS:
I am not using KPB ranks for this event, instead using my own ranks, generated only to maintain a little bit of continuity between editions.
TIMING:
To be determined and edited in once sign-ups slow down.
Puppet entries should be made by the puppet and confirmed by the user, or vice-versa I suppose. Sub-national entries can be made in either post.
For those interested, the first edition can be found HERE.
