Elite (competition level)

Elite
Founded	August 6, 2011
Number of teams	32
Level on pyramid	1
Promotion to	N/A
Relegation to	Babby
Events	Summer Cup, Winter Cup
Current champions	/mlp/
Most championships	/mlp/ (2 titles)
2017 4chan Winter Cup

"Elite" is also an adjective used to describe teams which have never been relegated from Elite level. For more information see Elite (teams).

Elite refers to the primary level of 4chan Cup competition. There are two Elite competitions in each annual cycle, the Summer Cup and Winter Cup. At the conclusion of the 2016 4chan Summer Cup there have been eleven Elite tournaments, the first of which was the 2011 4chan Summer Cup.

With /mlp/'s victory in the 2016 4chan Summer Cup, they have become the only team to hold the championship of two Elite Cups.

The Elite level was at one time the only competition level in the 4chan Cup. With the Third Founding and a larger number of competing teams it came to be supplemented by the Babby level which has its tournaments in Spring and Autumn of each year.

Teams

A total of 61 teams have competed at the Elite level since its inception. Two teams have appeared in every Elite event since its inception, these being /ck/ and /mu/. All teams since the 2015 4chan Winter Cup have been relegated at some point.

Champions

Of the 60 teams in the cup, a total of 9 teams have been crowned elite cup champions, with 2 of them as two time champions. A third team was a two time champion, but controversy had stripped one of the titles.

Next event

The following 32 clubs will compete at the next scheduled Elite event, the 2017 4chan Winter Cup.

Club	Position in previous season	First season in Elite	Number of seasons in Elite	First season of current spell in Elite	Elite titles	Last Elite title
/adv/a	0295thb	2011 Summer	6	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/an/	00814th	2014 Winter	6	2016 Winter	0	n/a
/asp/	0146th	2014 Winter	7	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/b/a	00510th in Autumn	2011 Summer	9	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/c/	0298th in Autumn	2013 Summer	3	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/d/	0169th	2012 Summer	7	2016 Winter	0	n/a
/e/	0057th	2014 Summer	5	2016 Summer	0	n/a
/f/	01116th	2013 Summer	8	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/fit/a	01112th	2011 Summer	8	2016 Winter	1	2016 Winter
/gd/	0138th	2014 Winter	6	2015 Summer	0	n/a
/h/	00515th in Autumn	2013 Winter	8	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/int/a	0059th in Autumn	2011 Summer	7	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/jp/	0051st in Autumn	2013 Winter	6	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/m/	0053rd	2012 Summer	7	2016 Summer	0	n/a
/mlp/	0221st	2013 Winter	9	2015 Winter	2	2016 Summer
/mu/a	00115th in Autumn	2011 Summer	11	2017 Winter	1	2014 Summer
/n/	02211th in Autumn	2015 Winter	4	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/o/	0052nd	2012 Winter	5	2011 Summer	0	n/a
/out/	0156th in Autumn	2016 Winter	3	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/p/	0052nd in Autumn	2016 Summer	2	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/r9k/	0289th	2013 Winter	4	2016 Summer	0	n/a
/soc/a	0059th	2011 Summer	9	2016 Summer	0	n/a
/sp/a	00511th in Autumn	2011 Summer	9	2017 Winter	1	2013 Winter
/s4s/	01015th	2014 Summer	6	2016 Winter	0	n/a
/toy/	00514th in Autumn	2012 Summer	8	2017 Winter	0	m/a
/tv/a	0265th in Autumn	2011 Summer	9	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/u/	0053rd in Autumn	2013 Summer	8	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/v/a	0054th	2011 Summer	8	2016 Summer	0	n/a
/vg/	0126th in Autumn	2013 Winter	4	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/vp/	00512th	2013 Winter	7	2017 Summer	0	n/a
/vr/	0054th in Autumn	2014 Winter	5	2017 Winter	0	n/a
/w/	00511th in Autumn	2016 Summer	3	2017 Winter	0	n/a

^a: Founding member of the 4chan Cup and the Elite level
^b: Later promoted to the Elite level in place of other teams failing to submit an export

Events

There have been eleven events at Elite level, up to and including the 2016 Summer Cup. The first Elite cup was the 2011 Summer Cup which featured 16 teams competing in a double elimination bracket. The following event, the 2012 Winter Cup, took on the same format. The 2012 Summer Cup was the first Elite event to use a group stage and single elimination bracket, a format which has remained until present day.

#	Tournament	Platform	Number of competing teams	Number of matches	Winner	Rotation	Number of goals	Average goals per game
1	2011 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2011	16	31	/a/	n/a	88	2.84
2	2012 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2011	16	31	/k/	n/a	113	3.65
3	2012 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2012	24	48	/sp/a	10/8	185	3.85
4	2013 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2013	32	64	/sp/	16	254	3.97
5	2013 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2013	32	64	/wg/	16	203	3.17
6	2014 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2014	32	64	/trv/	16	192	3.09
7	2014 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2014	32	64	/mu/	16	125	1.95
8	2015 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2014	32	64	/tg/	16	198	3.09
9	2015 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2015	32	64	/mlp/	16	263	4.11
10	2016 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2016	32	64	/fit/	16	281	4.39
11	2016 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2016	32	64	/mlp/	16	324	5.06
12	2017 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2017	32	64	/fit/	16	190	2.97

^a: Title later vacated. No winner in lieu.