2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup

2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup
Tournament details
Host board	/toy/
Dates	April 4–6, 11–13, 19–20, 26–27, 2014 (10 days)
Teams	≤ 40
Final positions
Champion	TBD
Runner-up	TBD
Third	TBD
Fourth	TBD
Tournament statistics Matches 0 Goals scored 0 (0 per match) Top scorer(s) N/A Top assister(s) N/A Golden Glove N/A Best player N/A Yellow cards 0 (0 per match) Red cards 0 (0 per match)
2014 4chan Winter Cup
2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup
2014 4chan Summer Cup

The 2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup will be the eleventh official 4chan Cup tournament and the third iteration of the Spring Babby Cup series. It is scheduled to be played over four weekends in April 2014. The tournament will feature a mixture of teams that failed to gain promotion from the 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup, teams who were relegated from the 2014 4chan Winter Cup, and teams that would have played to qualify from the season's cancelled qualifiers.

This will be the fourth cup under 4chan Cup Commissioner DrBorisG !!9Egy5BjxCDo, and the second one to be hosted with Pro Evolution Soccer 2014. The cup's host board this year shall be /toy/, after they came first in the 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup.

For some teams, this is the first time they will compete in a Spring Babby Cup. They are: /adv/ (last time they were in a Spring Babby Cup, they were disqualified before playing), /e/, /fit/, /gd/, /hm/, /jp/, /lgbt/, /out/, /s4s/, /tg/, /vr/ and /wsg/. For some teams, this is the first time they will ever be in a Babby Cup. These teams are: /out/ and /wsg/

With the record number of teams competing in this tournament following the merging of the qualifying and main stages of the Babby Cup, the event has been commonly referred to as the Mega Babby.

Competitors

As many as forty teams will compete at this tournament. In a new initiative entry of all teams will depend on an expression of interest to compete from the management of each invited board. The provisional entrants can be categorised as follows:

Granted entry after the 2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup Qualifiers event was cancelled:

•  /3/
•  /d/
•  /diy/
•  /hm/

•  /ic/
•  /k/
•  /lit/
•  /o/

•  /out/
•  /po/
•  /s4s/
•  /sci/

•  /tv/
•  /vg/
•  /vp/
•  /wsg/

Failed to advance from the 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup:

•  /e/
•  /fit/

•  /jp/
•  /n/

•  /r9k/
•  /tg/

Failed to provide an export for the 2014 4chan Winter Cup:

•  /fa/
•  /pol/

Relegated from the 2014 4chan Winter Cup:

•  /adv/
•  /b/
•  /c/
•  /ck/

•  /cm/
•  /co/
•  /g/
•  /gd/

•  /hr/
•  /int/
•  /lgbt/
•  /m/

•  /s/
•  /u/
•  /vr/
•  /y/

Sign-up

Main article: 2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup Signups

Managers of each team are required to sign up for participation.

Draw

The draw for the cup will take place at 17:00 UTC on Saturday, March 22, 2014. For the first time since the 2012 4chan Spring Babby Cup, ranking points will not be used for a group stage draw.

The eight best finishers of the 2014 4chan Winter Cup (judged by performance in the group stage of that event) will be placed in Pot 1, the next eight in Pot 2 and the eight best non-advancing teams of the 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup in Pot 3. As /pol/ and /fa/ were denied entry into the 2014 Winter Cup, they take the place of their replacements in that event, /asp/ and /gif/, in Pot 3 respectively. All remaining teams (those originally intending to participate in the Spring Babby Cup Qualifiers event) are placed in Pot 4.

Pot assignment assumes the participation of all forty invited teams. As such, the following is subject to alteration.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
/ck/  /co/  /y/  /s/  /c/  /b/  /g/  /hr/	/gd/  /m/  /adv/  /cm/  /u/  /lgbt/  /int/  /vr/	/pol/  /fa/  /r9k/  /tg/  /sci/  /tv/  /jp/  /n/	/s4s/  /d/  /e/  /vg/  /fit/  /lit/  /po/  /k/	/out/  /o/  /wsg/  /diy/  /ic/  /vp/  /3/  /hm/