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	/cm/
Most championships	/mlp/ and /fit/ (2 titles)
2020 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 2019 4chan Summer Cup there have been seventeen Elite tournaments, the first of which was the 2011 4chan Summer Cup.

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

Main article: All-time Elite Table

A total of 62 teams have competed at the Elite level since its inception. The last team to have appeared in every Elite cup was /mu/ before failing to promote from the 2017 4chan Autumn Babby Cup. All teams since the 2015 4chan Winter Cup have been relegated at some point.

Champions

Of the 62 teams in the cup, a total of 13 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 2020 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
/b/a	0259th in Autumn	1122011 Summer	13	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/biz/	02711th in Autumn	1622016 Summer	3	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/c/	0204th in Autumn	1322013 Summer	4	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/cm/	0011st in Summer	1312013 Winter	5	1922019 Summer	1	1922019 Summer
/co/	0077th in Summer	1212012 Winter	11	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/diy/	01111th in Summer	1422014 Summer	3	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/f/	02913th in Autumn	1322013 Summer	12	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/fa/a	02812th in Autumn	1122011 Summer	5	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/fit/a	0078th in Summer	1122011 Summer	13	1922019 Summer	2	1712017 Winter
/h/	01111th in Summer	1312013 Winter	13	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/i/	01111th in Summer	1512015 Winter	3	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/int/a	01010th in Summer	1122011 Summer	12	1712017 Winter	0	n/a
/jp/	0193rd in Autumn	1212012 Winter	11	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/k/a	0033rd in Summer	1122011 Summer	10	1922019 Summer	1	1212012 Winter
/lit/	0237th in Autumn	1312013 Summer	8	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/mlp/	0066th in Summer	1312013 Winter	13	1822018 Summer	2	1622016 Summer
/mu/a	0259th in Autumn	1122011 Summer	14	2012020 Winter	1	1422014 Summer
/o/	0215th in Autumn	1212012 Winter	7	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/out/	0182nd in Autumn	1612016 Winter	3	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/pol/	0022nd in Summer	1222012 Summer	10	1912019 Winter	0	n/a
/r9k/	01111th in Summer	1312013 Winter	8	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/tg/	0226th in Autumn	1212012 Winter	12	2012020 Winter	1	1512015 Winter
/toy/	01616th in Summer	1322013 Summer	12	1922019 Summer	0	n/a
/trv/	0171st in Autumn	1312013 Winter	6	2012020 Winter	1	1412014 Winter
/u/	0099th in Summer	1322013 Summer	13	1912019 Winter	1	1812018 Winter
/v/a	0248th in Autumn	1122011 Summer	10	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/vg/	01515th in Summer	1312013 Winter	8	1822018 Summer	1	1822018 Summer
/vp/	03014th in Autumn	1512015 Winter	8	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/w/	0044th in Summer	1622016 Summer	4	1912019 Winter	0	n/a
/wg/	0055th in Summer	1312013 Winter	11	1912019 Winter	1	1322013 Summer
/wsg/	03216th in Autumn	1422014 Summer	4	2012020 Winter	0	n/a
/x/a	03115th in Autumn	1122011 Summer	11	2012020 Winter	0	n/a

^a: Founding member of the 4chan Cup and the Elite level

Events

There have been seventeen events at Elite level, up to and including the 2019 4chan Summer Cup. The first Elite cup was the 2011 4chan Summer Cup, which featured 16 teams competing in a double elimination bracket. The following event, the 2012 4chan Winter Cup, took on the same format. The 2012 4chan Summer Cup was the first Elite event to use a group stage and single elimination bracket knockout stage, a format which has remained to the 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 2012	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	2.95
9	2015 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2015	32	64	/mlp/	16	263	3.80
10	2016 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2016	32	64	/fit/	16	281	4.41
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
13	2017 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2017	32	64	/lgbt/	16	202	3.16
14	2018 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2017	32	64	/u/	16	208	3.25
15	2018 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2017	32	64	/vg/	16	239	3.73
16	2019 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2016	32	64	/gd/	16	409	6.39
17	2019 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2018	32	64	/cm/	16	245	3.83

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