🏆Dunkest Cup

From this season, all users can participate in the new Dunkest Cup competition.

What it is the Dunkest Cup.

It's special head-to-head (H2H) competition that runs alongside the Main rankings. It’s created after the season has started and it will begin on Round 10, including the top 50,000 teams in the Global ranking.

Groups phase

The first phase of the Dunkest Cup is a a group phase, where the first 50,000 teams of the Global ranking are randomly drawn into 5,000 groups of 10. A full round-robin schedule is generated at creation. From Round 10 to Round 27, every round is one H2H fixture; the team with more fantasy points in that round wins the game. Group standings are ordered by W–L record, then by fantasy points accumulated in Dunkest Cup rounds.

At the end of Round 27, the top three from each group plus the 1.384 best fourth-placed teams across all groups (ranked by W–L, then Dunkest Cup points) qualify for Knockout (total 16,384 teams). All others are eliminated from the Cup.

Knockout phase

There is one pause round after Groups. Knockout then starts on Round 33 and proceeds as single-elimination with random pairings each Round (no fixed bracket). In every tie, whoever scores more fantasy points in that Round advances. If still tied, the team with the better overall Global Championship ranking advances (the platform’s standard tie-break applies and, if needed, implicitly considers registration date).

And this goes on until the final game in which two teams will compete for the win!