Yes, so it ended I lost 8-0 then the funny thing Top Eleven sends me a notification saying Better luck next time. I mean, is it necessary? To rub it in? Salt on the wound they create by allowing such high % teams to compete in levels where most of the teams are 30 plus % weaker. So better luck? How is anyone ever going to compete with that difference? Come on! This is actually disingenuous and dishonest. Where is the fair play? This by the way, when I started to play almost a year ago was not this bad. Now it's common place in every single competition in this game. It's out of control now but they just don't care to fix it. I wish I had the money and resources to create a similar game. It would be so much better and fair than this one.
In terms of what you say about auctions. It's true, I don't buy players in auction. Once I a while I may resort to buy one in scout but mostly I find it's tokens better spent to raise up a player from Youth Academy
I have gotten to the point now that I really don't care to win any trophy anymore. It has become too complicated and expensive to try to compete with some of these teams. If they don't correct the pairings in the competition and place teams in levels by quality rather than only level for some of us there will never be a chance to reach a trophy not this way.