2018 4chan Winter Cup Group B

Group B of the 2018 4chan Winter Cup contains the following teams:

Team	Place in last competition	Pre-cup position in Rankings
/toy/	4th in 2017 4chan Summer Cup	4th
/g/	t-11th in 2017 4chan Summer Cup	19th
/sp/	5th in 2017 4chan Autumn Babby Cup	9th
/pol/	10th in 2016 4chan Autumn Babby Cup	36th

Table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
/pol/	2	2	0	0	4	2	2	6
/toy/	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
/g/	2	0	1	1	3	4	-1	1
/sp/	2	0	1	1	2	3	-1	1

/toy/ v /sp/

Background: The first time this meeting happened, it ended in /sp/'s favor 2–1, and also doesn't count thanks to Irishmen. The second time it happened, it also went in /sp/'s favor, 3–2 and arguably the greatest 4CC final ever, and also does count despite Irishmen. Then Dragongate happened, and while  /sp/ saw their beloved Torres McIlroy permabanned, they still rematched  /toy/ for a 1–1 draw in the next cup's friendlies. 2013 has gone further and further into past, but that doesn't mean the last cup's meeting wasn't as intense as the old ones; it was a 2–2 draw, featuring a huge /sp/ comeback and the eventual top-four material /toy/ squad.

Stadium: Legoland

16 February 2018, 18:20 UTC

Attendance: 997

/toy/ 1–1 /sp/

Madoka Titus  2'

38' TSUUUUUUUUUUUUU  42' Perro Caca

/g/ v /pol/

Background: Speaking of old times,  /g/ would probably like to forget theirs. Back when they were one of the worst in the cup, they played a much-hyped  /pol/ squad in the 2012 4chan Summer Cup's Group of Death. It did not go well for them; they lost 2–1, conceding once and helping out /pol/ with an own goal before RandyTaylor69 scored a consolation.

Stadium: GNU/Stadium

16 February 2018, 19:00 UTC

Attendance: 1131

/g/ 1–2 /pol/

Install Gentoo  38'

5', 80' Moonman  10' Deus Vult  36' Assad

/toy/ v /g/

Background: Last cup,  /toy/ kickstarted their knockout run to 4th place with a 3–2 win over  /g/.

Stadium: Legoland

18 February 2018, 18:20 UTC

Attendance: 1047

/toy/ 2–2 /g/

Orange Transparent Chainsaw  31' Optimus Prime  39' Woody  53' Judy Hopps  82'

16' Something Happened  45+2'  75' No Time for Love

/sp/ v /pol/

Background: Back in Winter 2013,  /sp/'s penultimate match before their second* star was a 2–0 win over  /pol/. Three years later, /pol/ claimed revenge by eliminating /sp/ from the 2016 4chan Winter Cup via a 5PA1Nful result that stands as their biggest win ever.

Stadium: Transatalantic Semen Pipline Stadium

18 February 2018, 19:00 UTC

Attendance: 1444

/sp/ 1–2 /pol/

Messi  89'

28', 71' Moonman

/g/ v /sp/

Background:  /sp/'s first ever flirt with relegation was in Summer 2013, where they had lost to /m/ and drawn /jp/ before the final day of the group stage; since /m/ had beaten /jp/ in the match before theirs, however, they still had a chance. All they needed to do was beat  /g/. They took advantage of a hapless /g/, winning 2–0 and staying ELITE™. The very next Elite Cup, /sp/ had already advanced by the time they played /g/, but that wasn't stopping them from relegating /g/ by winning 3–1. Two years later, in a Babby, /sp/ won their first knockout match since the days of Dragonfag, again 3–1 over /g/.

24 February 2018, 18:20 UTC

/g/ vs /sp/

/pol/ v /toy/

Background: Another marquee matchup of days gone by; this battle of (former) powers first played out in Winter 2013, with  /toy/ not even making it a contest and taking a 5–0 win over their fellow medal-earner. The next friendly season, /toy/ again took out  /pol/, by the far more subdued score of 2–1. Both teams found themselves in the 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup semifinals and played each other again; /toy/ won yet again, this time 5–3 on the way to winning the cup. Oh, and then they met for the fourth time in a year and a half in the last-ever official Friendlies. /toy/ won a fourth time, 1–0.

24 February 2018, 19:00 UTC

/pol/ vs /toy/