Cup is *not* for teams of a similar Quality...

[Tactician]

I've already covered that - his team now is the same as at the start of the season, so how did he get into this Cup? He has four 1* players in his squad, which reduces his overall quality by 10%, so still way ahead of the highest Q of the other teams in this Cup.

If he had started the season at a similar quality and improved the squad to the level it is, then I would have said fair enough, can't match that, get on with it. But as it is, he was in the wrong Cup to start with.

What I meant is what if the opponent improved his team just after the draw? You cannot say that his team was like this before the draw unless you had him on your friends' list.

Suppose that his team was like this at the moment of the draw, then yes, there could be a problem, but still he deserves it if he has improved his team honestly. Now that you are mentioning he had four 1 star players in his squad after the Cup draw, he probably fooled the Cup draw. He may have had say 6-7 star first team players at the time of the draw, and just after the draw he brought all of them to 8 stars (which showed as 9 stars to you given that you are 1 level below).

Now, if you are looking for someone to blame, start by blaming those who support the idea of cheating in the game including fooling draws, those that show others how to trick the Cup draw on the social websites including this forum, and also blame Nordeus for not fixing this flaw.

While it might be just a game, some people might be putting a lot of effort, spending a lot of time and money on this game, including you. And when you face situations like this, where it is clear that one of your opponents has deliberately cheated the system, it is of course unacceptable. I have expressed my disagreement against all those who cheat many times here on this forum, but it seems that many users here don't care (or they try to defend the act probably because they do it themselves), at least not until they become the victim themselves for a few times. I have seen all sorts of cheating here: fooling draws, tanking, using alternative/parallel accounts to gain advantages such as additional supporter possession bonus and tokens via the referral system, using alternative accounts to send 'valuable' gifts such as logos and shirts to another main account, using fake addresses and/or proxies to obtain offers, and lately trying to fool the offer system by installing a previously installed app.

PS: No offence meant to anyone, but what I have said is the truth.