Well... It's going to be a few seasons until we are more on a level playing field with the highest quality sides, but I will do what I can to try and get as far as I can in the meantime... My Research on the "Shark Tank" is over...
I wonder if I can "avoid" the shark cup next season by letting 9 contracts run out and kicking out 1 or 2 players on longer contracts but most of my team is at least 6* now so I don't think that would work.
Here is 2 important teams on our server...
Current "Official" Best Team (Cup Winners) = "FC Springfield"
135.0
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Highest Quality Team on the server = "BB"
136.6
http://i43.tinypic.com/27zf4aa.png
The current cup format serves a big purpose to the best 128 teams on each server, the right to be the best of the best.