Never won cup

[CarlTaut]

Join my server and see for yourself.. They would whoop your ass

How do you know how my server is?? Do you think that lvl8 teams were weaker than mine?
BTW I read somewhere that you are in the same cup as SWAG? Is it possible?? One of my real life friend is in a league with a team called SWAG. He is lvl 6.

[Ljepoje]

The current cup format is HELL for token buyers, especially on older servers where they get chucked in a cup to play non-token buyers a few levels above themselves that can buy 5* players off the transfer market to blow you out the water with not much of an investment in tokens but have the quality because they are 3 levels above you.

On newer servers I've noticed the cups are going to be dominated by the heaviest T-Buyers across the entire server so even for mediocre T-Buyers/T-Farmers its very difficult.

I'm on a older server but not at the top of it by any means and I've had 3 cup titles on the end of the old cup format, and even that was because I power trained my players to compete with players 2/3 levels above me in the Semi's/Final. If the old cup format was still around it would be likely I would be playing my friend team in the final every season from now on. It took me a year to rise up through the levels to become major contenders for winning the cup and now that I got there... Nordeus change the format.

I'm pleased I power trained my players and won the cup 3 times when I did because it won't be anytime soon I will get anywhere near winning the cup under its current format.

+1!

It´s true, and I can only speak for myself and from own experience. Due the old cupformat the lvl/players (3* - 7*) were quite shuffled but now only the "best/greatest" from every lvl stand a chance to advance/compete, the rest gets eliminated in the KO-stage.

The League & CL are different. The top 3 are mostly made of 5*-6/7* teams and the rest are 4/3* or abandoned.

[July Fourth]

Join my server and see for yourself.. They would whoop your ass

They could put my team onto one of the newer servers, then I can win the cup in my sleep! lol...

[Ljepoje]

How do you know how my server is?? Do you think that lvl8 teams were weaker than mine?
BTW I read somewhere that you are in the same cup as SWAG? Is it possible?? One of my real life friend is in a league with a team called SWAG. He is lvl 6.

Because you "pictured" it as a "simple" thing, which isn´t. As far as I can see, the Top- teams on my server are all owned/managed by grown-ups and educated people, the rest are owned/managed by youngsters/teenagers. They/I invest since we have the economic possibilities/capacity to spend 500T per season or more. Sometimes I feel sorry for a kid/teenager that ends up bidding against me or the other T-buyers, since we go "all-in" for a player that we want. As far when it comes to my server, you can´t get a 5* player (18 - 20yrs) if you don´t go for at least +25 KO-rounds (which you probably get from a sponsor income per season). So yes, to stand a chance - you are forced to invest real money. Maybe that´s not the situation on your server, you know better for sure.

I don´t know, maybe he has more then one team? This one is "DYNAMO S.W.A.G" and from Switzerland, then there are a 6 - 8 more teams that are stacked with superstars/legends (English/Asian,German,Qatari,S.Arab,Turk and one Russian).. then there a some 6/7* teams as well (mixed).. And all of them are competing in the CUP every year.

[Ljepoje]

They could put my team onto one of the newer servers, then I can win the cup in my sleep! lol...

Yeah, they could. But then you would compete in a Lvl 4 league and CL as well since there aren´t any lvl/teams above us. Think we are at the "top" of our lvl/server

[Megamax]

Im level 10, and i never got through the champions league group, and never passed the qualifining part of cup!!! i dont buy tokens, but i have a lot of them and i invest them in good things!!

[El Pistolero]

I'm level 5 and have a poor trophy haul (1 CL and 1 Cup). Hoping this will be the time I win the League though.

2 Cups out of 5 is quite good so you haven't done to bad. You will get the league, you just need a fortunate table.

[El Pistolero]

I share same thought, and was in same spot earlier on. Managed to win the league from lvl 1 - 3 and then got to a CL final which I lost after a penalt-shoot out. But when it came to the CUP, I just didn´t stand a chance from all scout/T-buyers.. Then this season I decided to invest and here we are: Quarter-finals.

I´m not saying that you can´t get/earn sucess without paying/buying for a a nice squad, but It´s quite impossible nowadays, especially on my server.

No, it's not impossible. I'm no token buyer, nevertheless I won the cup last season when i was level 6 (cup was lvl8)

Often I have thought about buying tokens but I would prefer to win without paying for success, more working for it.

[CarlTaut]

Because you "pictured" it as a "simple" thing, which isn´t. As far as I can see, the Top- teams on my server are all owned/managed by grown-ups and educated people, the rest are owned/managed by youngsters/teenagers. They/I invest since we have the economic possibilities/capacity to spend 500T per season or more. Sometimes I feel sorry for a kid/teenager that ends up bidding against me or the other T-buyers, since we go "all-in" for a player that we want. As far when it comes to my server, you can´t get a 5* player (18 - 20yrs) if you don´t go for at least +25 KO-rounds (which you probably get from a sponsor income per season). So yes, to stand a chance - you are forced to invest real money. Maybe that´s not the situation on your server, you know better for sure.

I don´t know, maybe he has more then one team? This one is "DYNAMO S.W.A.G" and from Switzerland, then there are a 6 - 8 more teams that are stacked with superstars/legends (English/Asian,German,Qatari,S.Arab,Turk and one Russian).. then there a some 6/7* teams as well (mixed).. And all of them are competing in the CUP every year.

Because you "pictured" it as a "simple" thing, which isn´t. *As far as I can see, the Top- teams on my server are all owned/managed by grown-ups and educated people, the rest are owned/managed by youngsters/teenagers. They/I invest since we have the economic possibilities/capacity to spend 500T per season or more. Sometimes I feel sorry for a kid/teenager that ends up bidding against me or the other T-buyers, since we go "all-in" for a player that we want. *As far when it comes to my server, you can´t get a 5* player (18 - 20yrs) if you don´t go for at least +25 KO-rounds (which you probably get from a sponsor income per season). So yes, to stand a chance - you are forced to invest real money. Maybe that´s not the situation on your server, you know better for sure.




I don´t know, maybe he has more then one team? This one is "DYNAMO S.W.A.G" and from Switzerland, then there are a 6 - 8 more teams that are stacked with superstars/legends (English/Asian,German,Qatari,S.Arab,Turk and one Russian).. then there a some 6/7* teams as well (mixed).. And all of them are competing in the CUP every year.

Wait, I didn't said that achieve a cup is easy.... i only said that is still possible for people that don't invest...
My server is an old one, lot of active managers, luckily not so many buyers (to sign a 18 years old at least i need 15-20T).... but the most important thing is that almost all the managers play an attacking formation, to me the easiest to counter.
BTW The team is called SWAG91 and is from france, but since is full of scouts maybe is not a 2nd account team

[Narf]

So?

It's not like I have that much experience, since I only got to play 3 matches in the first season and finished 7th and I'm now on the 3rd level. However, I got into the Cup semi-final on the second season. I am yet to win any trophy even and I just lost another match to a player that is 10 skill below me - unless that lucky guy in the 1st place loses 2 in a row, there's no league championship for me again, even with the strongest team in the league by far. My only realistic target at this point is the CL and it's not like there isn't decent competition there. From what I've seen here on the forums, most of you guys have got at least 1 trophy every single season, and with little effort.

My point is - it's either completely random, or some teams are just bound to win a certain set of trophies and some are not.