Ok Beck, here's the guy who beat me in semi-finals in CUP (me LV3/s3, he LV5/s5, 2-1, 0-3) and won the CUP.

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His stars are +2 as I see him.
Is he doing something like you ? Is he holding low lv players (those with 1-2 stars) from his beginning and sell the others ?

Unfortunately for him, he didn't get the triple I don't know about CH.L. but he lost the league by him

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