There were 30 teams submitted this season, but a couple of rejections. Taeshan's entry was rejected for apparently being submitted on a whim. A reminder. The CdC's clue is in the title. I don't pore over submissions and check them all with a fine tooth comb, but any team I notice being submitted that isn't the league champions will get rejected. Boring Paradise's entry was also rejected, as I don't fancy a leauge that deems itself capable of submitting teams to both the CdC and the CEdC as worthy of inclusion here. Leaving twenty-eight (a little awkward) I culled the rankless entries of puppets to leave a neat twenty-four entries. Darmen's entry was good enough for CH, and therefore good enough for me. Again, more than a few Rushmori leagues neglected to specify their league champions signing up for the competition, as such they were excluded as per my warnings), meaning the format stays unchanged from last season.
With the top eight teams granted a bye to the first round, the bottom ranked sixteen teams were placed into a qualification round of eight matches. The eight winners of those two-legged matches then joined those with byes in the first round proper. All individual rounds were drawn randomly.
Qualification Round
Moscva 2k12 (OGD) 0-1 Ballymairead Aelsh (ATR) (0-1 agg)
Ballymairead Aelsh (ATR) 1-1 Moscva 2k12 (OGD) (2-1 agg)
Inchalá It FC (CHT) 1-1 Iarba Tineri (ANT) (1-1 agg)
Iarba Tineri (ANT) 4-0 Inchalá It FC (CHT) (5-1 agg)
Liria Prizren (MYT) 1-1 Sporting San Marquez (SRG) (1-1 agg)
Sporting San Marquez (SRG) 0-2 Liria Prizren (MYT) (1-3 agg)
Galactica (PAS) 1-0 Stephen of August (NCM) (1-0 agg)
Stephen of August (NCM) 1-0 Galactica (PAS) (1-1 AET, 1-2 agg)
Goidelic (ANC) 3-2 Caballeros CF (OSD) (3-2 agg)
Caballeros CF (OSD) 1-0 Goidelic (ANC) (3-3 agg) (Caballeros CF (OSD) wins on away goals rule)
Home United (MAP) 1-0 Drayfill Town (AEL) (1-0 agg)
Drayfill Town (AEL) 3-2 Home United (MAP) (3-3 agg) (Home United (MAP) wins on away goals rule)
FC Dagnar United (MSH) 2-0 Nestingham FC (FWH) (2-0 agg)
Nestingham FC (FWH) 2-2 FC Dagnar United (MSH) (2-4 agg)
Girondins du Fortune (KDE) 1-1 Lac-Drouin St-Pierre (SIC) (1-1 agg)
Lac-Drouin St-Pierre (SIC) 2-2 Girondins du Fortune (KDE) (3-3 agg) (Girondins du Fortune (KDE) wins on away goals rule)
First Round
Ballymairead Aelsh (ATR) 1-0 Iarba Tineri (ANT) (1-0 agg)
Iarba Tineri (ANT) 2-0 Ballymairead Aelsh (ATR) (2-1 agg)
RGS Athletic (EFL) 1-0 Caballeros CF (OSD) (1-0 agg)
Caballeros CF (OSD) 1-2 RGS Athletic (EFL) (1-3 agg)
Sporting Iturributa (ITB) 2-0 Home United (MAP) (2-0 agg)
Home United (MAP) 2-1 Sporting Iturributa (ITB) (2-3 agg)
Girondins du Fortune (KDE) 2-4 Mort Park (WZI) (2-4 agg)
Mort Park (WZI) 2-0 Girondins du Fortune (KDE) (6-2 agg)
Navel FC (WRL) 4-2 FC Dagnar United (MSH) (4-2 agg)
FC Dagnar United (MSH) 0-5 Navel FC (WRL) (2-9 agg)
FC Axel Heiburg (PIS) 2-1 Echegoyan FC (ASG) (2-1 agg)
Echegoyan FC (ASG) 2-0 FC Axel Heiburg (PIS) (3-2 agg)
Pays de Croix (SAU) 1-0 Galactica (PAS) (1-0 agg)
Galactica (PAS) 1-1 Pays de Croix (SAU) (1-2 agg)
Scott City FC (DAR) 1-0 Liria Prizren (MYT) (1-0 agg)
Liria Prizren (MYT) 0-3 Scott City FC (DAR) (0-4 agg)
Quarter Finals
Sporting Iturributa (ITB) 5-0 Mort Park (WZI) (5-0 agg)
Mort Park (WZI) 1-0 Sporting Iturributa (ITB) (1-5 agg)
Iarba Tineri (ANT) 1-3 Navel FC (WRL) (1-3 agg)
Navel FC (WRL) 7-0 Iarba Tineri (ANT) (10-1 agg)
RGS Athletic (EFL) 3-1 Pays de Croix (SAU) (3-1 agg)
Pays de Croix (SAU) 1-1 RGS Athletic (EFL) (2-4 agg)
Echegoyan FC (ASG) 1-1 Scott City FC (DAR) (1-1 agg)
Scott City FC (DAR) 2-0 Echegoyan FC (ASG) (3-1 agg)
Semi Finals
RGS Athletic (EFL) 1-0 Sporting Iturributa (ITB) (1-0 agg)
Sporting Iturributa (ITB) 0-0 RGS Athletic (EFL) (0-1 agg)
Scott City FC (DAR) 0-1 Navel FC (WRL) (0-1 agg)
Navel FC (WRL) 1-0 Scott City FC (DAR) (2-0 agg)
RGS Athletic (EFL) 1-1 Navel FC (WRL) (3-3 AET, 6-7 PKs)[/b]
Welp, that looked an exciting final. Congratulations to Navel FC, and dramatic commiserations to RGS Athletic.
Future bids for host stadia will be taken into consideration, though the default in case of no bids will always be The Barge in Bjarnarey, the floating stadium. A final reminder also that all Rushmori nations only will be able to submit their league champions only (or top ranked team in the event of multi-associational leagues) for entry into the next CdC, the submission period opened when Commerce Heights closed entries to the last UICA tournaments, and will close again when Commerce Heights closes entries to the next UICA tournaments. No invitations will be sent. You must indicate in your league summary that you wish your league champion to take part.
Please also note that I will continue to monitor the UICA ranks used slightly, and am setting a hard maximum rank next cycle of 85. Any team with a rank higher than that will be cut to 85, and the max rank for the scorinator will be 100.