@Ponzu
The cup draw is starting from the top of the server (the higher levels) making groups of 128 teams by similar quality of the best 14 players and going down to the bottom, with lv1 teams.
The same with the CH.L., making groups of 32 teams who finished in 1-4th position of their leagues.
Starting from the top of the server, means that in some CH.L. groups there are teams from a level above or bellow.
The draw is random. In some groups you can find some teams with very low quality from low q leagues.
The league draw is coming from quality but there are some other factors that counts too.
maybe how active is the manager for example.
Anyway, this is not clear yet, but for my experience I can say that an active manager cannot manipulate the league draw (it needs very low q, of 1-2* players), so don't bother.

There is a thread about the cup
http://forum.topeleven.com/tutorials...w-win-cup.html
which you can read (I don't know how more clear can be )
and there is a thread with examples of the league draw.
http://forum.topeleven.com/tutorials...aw-system.html
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