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your notices gives me an inspiration

however I mean this high division cup like the reward for most succesfull teams in here

no matter how many divisions have that coutry, can have 10 divisions (:)) but still this competition where noone can in fact lose, because if lose, join a national cup - are reward for best teams and simultaneously get them out of national cup for a while

system I offered (whole I, 4 from II, 1 from III) are for the interresting battles even in lower leagues, but not for IVth and more lower - because they are not strongest teams in the country, are they?

I don't think your proposed format, with the league stage at the end, will get the teams back into the national cup at a suitable round. You proposed 3 knockout rounds and 5 league rounds. In a country with 4096 teams, 8 rounds would reduce the field to 16 teams. But if you have the 6 finalists entering the national cup that means you have to only have 10 teams advancing from the national cup, so you reduce your starting field for the national cup to 2560, simply so you can have a league stage.

So I think you should stick with a straight knockout. But 64 works better than 48, so go ahead and take 2 teams from each III league.

National Cup: 5392 teams.
Divisional Cup: 64 teams

Preliminary Round (NC only): 3488 teams play, 1904 byes.
Round 1: 3648 in NC, 64 in DC
Round 2: 1824+32 DC losers in NC, 32 in DC
Round 3: 928 + 16 DCL, 16 in DC sweet sixteen.
Round 4: 472 + 8 DCL, 8 in DC elite eight.
Round 5: 240 + 4 DCL, 4 in DC final four.
Round 6: 122 + 2 DCL, 2 in DC final.
Round 7: 62 + 2 DC finalists.
Round 8-12: 32 -> NC champion.

That will work OK for countries with 5 or 6 divisions.

Does the DC champion win a spot in the BBB?

you are right, maybe is 64 teams a better number, I'm awful mathematic, you know:)

also it would be great opportunity to get B3, indeed!

Last edited by Iordanou at 7/28/2008 4:04:05 AM