BS Cup 14

Welcome to the rules, signup, and discussion thread for the 14th annual bigsoccer.com cup. As your (self-appointed) Deity of the BS Cup, I am happy to announce the format for this year's cup. Notice the small change I made to the starters rule punishment.

We will do the same format as last season again, this could change if demand is not great enough, but as of right now, we will start with two tournaments.

1. BS March Madness Early

This half of the tournament will be open to all BS.com teams, and will consist of a single elimination tournament with the brackets formed in a random fashion. All games will be played cup-rules at a neutral location of the team's choosing. This format allows participation in the cup, but should be shorter than a group-based format, allowing for flag chasing or other pursuits.

This cup is expected to start around the same time as the IGN. If first round matches have not been played by the end of Cup round 9, the match is ruled a forfeit.

2. BS "I got next" Cup

This will be a traditional, group based cup that is open only to teams that are in the bottom two divisions in their nation (in the USA, this is D.V and D.VI). Depending on the number of teams that sign up, we will have groups. With that number, we will have a proportionate number of teams make the knockout round. Wins will be worth 3 points, pk losses (i.e., ties after 120 minutes) worth 1 point, losses worth 0 points. Points will be used to reseed teams for the purposes of the knockout bracket. The group play will be home-home against each team in the bracket. The knockout bracket matches will be 1 leg neutral ground. No teams from the same group can meet each other in the first knock out round.

In the case of ties within a group, the tiebreakers will be (in order) head to head, goal differential, goals scored, fewest goals allowed, fewest disciplinary points, and average home attendance. In the unlikely event that there is still a tie, then it will be settled by the largest bribe to the tournament administrator.


***Rules Common to Both Cups

1. DEADLINE FOR SIGNUPS: March 26, 2008 (two weeks from today, same day as cup round 5)

2. FIRST BS.COM CUP MATCH: April 1, 2008 (three weeks from today, same day as cup round 6).

3. All games will be played under cup rules.

4. To signup: post in this thread your a) team name, b) team series, c) which cup you want to enter, and d) post your standard league starting 11, this will be the list used for the 3 or 4 starter rule depending on the tournament. Teams will be allowed to post a new "league lineup" if/when they upgrade a position and drop a player from the first team to the second team

6. Since this is a friendly/ reserve cup, your starting lineup should be mostly reserve players. Only 4 players from your posted league lineup will be allowed to play in their league positions in IGN games. For the MM, the limit is 3 since these teams are more well established. If you have 17 or fewer players you will be allowed to add additional starters to be able to field a full team, but you will be ridiculed and told to go buy a cheap $1000 28-year old passable IM. This is the dcuntied memorial rule. Starters can be named as subs. If you play more than the appropriate amount of starters, you will be given an automatic 5-0 loss. (This rule is in place because of team's winning games by more then 7 goals.)

7.If you accidentally schedule a friendly other than your BS.com match for the week, you will lose by a walk-over score of 5-0.

8. If a team has not accepted your challenge for a BS Cup match by the Monday before the match, post it in this thread and a member of the duo will check on it and award the walkover. Don't always just schedule the friendly and hope he accepts, if he hasn't accepted by Saturday, send him/her an ht-mail to remind them.

9. the BS.com Deity may add rules (in a fair manner, or bribery) as the need warrents it. All decisions are final (but I'm not really that heavy-handed, as past participants can attest to).

If you have any questions, PM me, or post them to this thread.

Sign up below with your team name, tournament you are entering, series number, and standard starting 11 league lineup.

 

Raytown Rangers 82
MM
iv.30
Maddox - Chang, Ajofrín, Frouws - Aragonés, King, MacAndrew, Jacobsen, Mansour - van Deurne, Arnold

 

Ign - 5
Mm - 2

 

MM-4
IGN-6

I'll try to have everything up tonight, but I'm currently taking some night classes on SQL 2005, so I'm getting home fairly late.

Deadline is tonight.

 

doing the draw now. Site will be up shortly

 

http://www.ht-arena.com/raytownrangers82/?page=BS Cup 35

MM up
Matches are 1 leg neutral site.
I'm still in the cup so my match will have to wait.

Raytown Rangers 82 vs Daverules FC
Columbus North End vs Hoover Vacuum Keeners

 

http://www.ht-arena.com/raytownrangers82/?page=BS Cup 35 IGN

IGN is up
Round 1
home team first
Morgantown South End - RustyTrombones
Los Borrachos de Calhoun - Depew Village FC
The Smurfs FC - Bottom Feeder FC

 

Neither game was played this week, so both are up again this week.

 

One game from the IGN is still going, I'll finish updating the site when the game is over.
http://www.ht-arena.com/raytownrangers82/?page=BS Cup 35 IGN

For round two.
Home team first
RustyTrombones - Los Borrachos de Calhoun
Bottom Feeder FC - Morgantown South End
Depew Village FC - The Smurfs FC