The World Series Cup and Other Competitions
The World Series Cup is a 21 round single KO competition involving all 2400 teams within the WSL structure and below is a approx guide to where teams enter.
First Qualifying round - World Conference (WC) Underdog teams
Second Qualifying round - WC Championship & WC Promotion teams
Third Qualifying Round - WC Conference & some World Alliance(WA) underdog teams
Fourth Qualifying Round - WA Underdog teams
First round - WA Championship teams
Second Round - WA Promotion & World Alliance teams
Third Round - some World Premier (WP) Underdog teams
Fourth Round - rest of WP Underdog & WP championship teams
Fifth Round - World Premier & some World Super Elite (WSE) Underdog teams
Sixth Round - rest of WSE Underdogs teams & some WSE championship
Seventh Round - rest of WSE Championship & WSE Promotion Teams
Eighth Round - No extra teams enter
Ninth Round - No extra teams enter
Tenth Round - World Super Elite Teams
Eleventh to Final - No extra teams enter
These games are spread out through the season from 3/8/2011 - 2/6/2012 I,ve yet to decide where the Final will take place as using neutral stadium just picks stadiums from England.
The Level Cups by Continent's ie European World Super Elite Cup & European World Super Elite Vase (theres cup and vases for each level)
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One of the problems I faced was what was I going to do with teams that didn't make it to the World League Finals and this is the solution. Now ideally I didn't want the teams that did make it to the finals to take part in these competitions
but unfortunately theres no exceptions option available in the normal editor so I gave a bye to the semi finals to the 2 top rep teams in the World Super Elite Cups
???? World Super Elite Cup - 8 teams play in 2 groups playing each other twice with the 2 top teams entering the semi-finals(single leg) with the 2 teams with a bye to this round, I chose to add only 8 matches so if a team thats playing in the World League Finals does enter at the group stage then theres enough room to move fixtures, if unfortunately a non World League Finals team gets the bye then I would suggest to arrange friendlies to fill any gaps in the calender.
???? World Super Elite Vase - teams from the Promotion, Championships and Underdogs take part in this competitions 140 teams per comp
First Preliminary Round - 40 teams (random) play in a single KO
Group Stage - 100 teams join the 20 from above to play in 20 single game groups with the winner of each group and the next best 12 entering the next round
First Round - Single KO 32 teams whittled down to 16
Second Round - Single KO 16 teams whittled down to 8
Quarter Finals - Single KO 8 teams whittled down to 4
Semi Finals - Single KO 4 teams whittled down to 2
Final - Single KO 2 teams to battle for the Vase
World Reserve Leagues
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The one thing that has never been done in a World Super League Database that retains teams true nationality is a reserve league system (as far as I'm aware anyway) until now.
This part probably caused me the most headaches, i did a small test League to see if it was possible to get reserve teams from across the world working and was successful until I built the whole system then things went a bit haywire, I ended up with Man Utd 1st team playing in every division as well as the ones they were meant to be in (wish I'd taken a screen shot of Rooney season history with over 200 league appearances LOL)in the first season then Barcelona 1st team doing the same in the second season. I must have spent 2 days getting to the route of the problem which was france (theres another separate file apparently for the reserve fixtures for French teams and until new nation rules are applied (which just reaffirms my opinion the French f**K everything up LOL)
Now this is nowhere as big as the main event only 328 teams have been chosen for the 4 divisions (if your team isn't in the World Reserves they should be in their nation reserve league/s
I've also added Cups for these 328 teams as well. I'm not going to go into detail about the reserve leagues and comps, its something I'll let you find out about by yourself or you can ask questions and I'll answer as there asked.
Well thats about all of the Psycho's FM World covered apart from the rest of the 10 levels of the English League System which your discover when its released on Sunday, now its back to the editor for me to try and get a few more nations done before then.