Clan Teams Cup Format

If Clan League is like the Premier League and Clan Cup is like the FA Cup, Clan Teams Cup may be more like the League Cup. Or at least that is how my thinking started. I realise that this introduction will likely mean nothing to most readers, but here we go…

Any feedback on this idea would be much appreciated. It will be another light-touch event with 75% of participants just playing four games and the winners around seven or eight spread over a long timeframe. The idea would be to start just as Clan League comes to an end and then run from there. Clan Cup would launch a couple of months later and both should complete well before the year end.

Clans may submit an unlimited number of Teams. The rules and format will be broadly similar to that used for Clan Cup. Each Team is made up of five players and their Games are drawn at random. Players will be ‘Cup Tied’ so will not be able to change Teams during the season. Unlimited substitutions. Players can only use one account and must be in the Clan they represent at Game creation. Unlike Clan Cup, each Player plays two Games, not one Game per Round.

Round 1 will feature a best of 5 on 5 2v2 Templates. Each Player will play two Games. (This will be the Round with the most byes)

Round 2 will feature a best of 3 on 3v3 Templates. Four Players will play two Games and one will play one Game

Rounds 3+ will be on 2v2 up to the semi finals which will be 3v3 both using the format previously described.

The Final will feature a best of 7 on 5 x 2v2 Templates and 2 x 3v3 Templates. Four Players will play four Games and one Player will play three Games.

The Games will be drawn at random as will the players on each team.

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Template List

2v2

Foggy Lands
Timid Lands
Biomes
Gotham
Guiroma
Cookies
Strategic 2v2
Strat MME 2v2
Turzel
Black Sea Brawl
Sierra Leone Brawl
Crimea AC
Landria Earth
China
GME
Treasure Map
Yin’angzhou
Volcano Island

3v3

Biomes
Magna Europa
Elitist Africa
DRoR
Strategic 3v3
META
Middle East
Madagascar
Bakrannia LD
Westeros LD
Guntia
Feldmere
India

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Example…..

Round 4 (best of 5 on 2v2 Templates)

Harmony V TLA

Harmony
1A. Texx
2A. Bodski
3A. Kcebnroh
4A. SilentWarrior
5A. dd

TLA
1B. JK_3
2B. Grimer 2
3B. Naviiso
4B. Ares
5B. Seraph

The Templates would be drawn first, example:

Foggy Lands

Slot 1 V Slot 1
Slot 2 V Slot 2

Black Sea Brawl

Slot 3 V Slot 3
Slot 4 V Slot 4

Turzel

Slot 5 V Slot 5
Slot 6 V Slot 6

Landria Earth

Slot 7 V Slot 7
Slot 8 V Slot 8

Biomes

Slot 9 V Slot 9
Slot 10 V Slot 10

Players are then allocated to slots drawn at random (obviously no Player cannot occupy two slots on the same team, so this would need to be managed live).

P1A 7, 4
P2A 3, 10
P3A 1, 8
P4A 2, 6
P5A 5, 9

P1B 2, 9
P2B 3, 5
P3B 1. 7
P4B 8, 6
P5B 10, 4

This would generate the following Games:

Foggy Lands

Kcebnroh & SilentWarrior V Naviiso & JK_3

Black Sea Brawl

Bodski & Texx V Grimer 2 & Seraph

Turzel

dd & SilentWarrior V Grimer 2 & Ares

Landria Earth

Texx & Kcebnroh V Naviiso & Ares

Biomes

dd & Bodski V JK_3 & Seraph



The first team to 3 wins proceeds to the next Round and the other Team is eliminated.

Edited 2025-11-24 02:20:00

Heya, some quick questions:

1. Do you have example games for the templates?

2. You talk about teams of 5 players, how does this distribute to 2v2 and 3v3 games? Randomly assign players to a team? Can you in theory get the same teammate twice then?

3. How do you define CL coming to an end? Most of the "slow" games in CL will be the team games, so I can see that potentially causing a conflict of interest/energy/dedication (not sure what the best word is, but you get the idea...)

4. Can a clan sub in any player from itself? Or only players that are signed up at the start of the event? Since players can't change teams, I assume its the first?

Thanks for your questions JK :)

1. Yes - I will post sample Games if the idea gets traction. It was a bit of a task to pull them all together and they may be subject to change if people have better suggestions so I left it as a guide for now.

2. Players are randomly assigned as per the example, however, one Player cannot appear twice on the same Team (the last part will need to be managed manually).

3. I note your concern about the timing, however, Round 1 will include a lot of byes and each Round only has one or two Games so I don't see this being an obstacle although we would need to get the timing just right to prevent the issues you highlight.

4. Any Player from your Clan can be substituted in at any time before the Draw for the next Round. Players need to be in the Clan they represent when the Game is made and new recruits or leavers will need to be managed by the Clan Representative as the event progresses.

RE 4.: But not if they already played for another team for the same clan, if I read the rules correctly?

Also, (5.) regarding multiple teams per clan: I assume it will once again be possible for a clan to be fighting itself?

JK

All Players will be 'Cup Tied' so they can only play for one Team (even within the same Clan). This means that if your A Team gets knocked out, they can't then replace your B Team with A Team Players, etc. You understand this correctly :)

Clans will be afforded 'Clan Protection' in the first Round only (this is a new rule which will apply to both Cups). So in Round 1 you cannot be drawn against another Team from your Clan, from Round 2 onwards there will be no such protection.