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	TBD
Most championships	/a/ /k/ /mu/ /sp/ /trv/ /wg/ (1 title)
2015 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. As of the 2014 4chan Winter Cup there have been six Elite tournaments, the first of which was the 2011 4chan Summer Cup.

Since /sp/'s 2012 4chan Summer Cup was vacated no team has become champion in two Elite events. To date, /a/ have come closest to achieving the feat with a second place in the 2014 Winter Cup to add to their 2011 4chan Summer Cup championship.

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 57 teams have competed at the Elite level since its inception. Six teams have appeared in every Elite event since its inception, these being /ck/, /mu/, and /x/. All teams have since been relegated from the Elite level.

The following 32 clubs will compete at the next scheduled Elite event, the 2015 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
/an/	0088th	2014 Winter	2	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/asp/	014Joint 13th	2014 Winter	2	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/b/	0171st in Autumn	2011 Summer	6	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/ck/a	02913th in Autumn	2011 Summer	7	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/diy/	01616th	2014 Summer	1	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/e/	0182nd in Autumn	2014 Summer	1	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/f/	011Joint 11th	2013 Summer	3	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/g/	0248th in Autumn	2011 Summer	5	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/gd/	013Joint 13th	2014 Winter	2	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/h/	006Joint 6th	2013 Winter	4	2013 Summer	0	n/a
/hr/	0022nd	2014 Winter	2	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/i/	031Joint 15th in Autumn	2015 Winter	0	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/ic/	007Joint 6th	2014 Summer	1	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/jp/	03014th in Autumn	2012 Winter	4	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/lit/	027Joint 11th in Autumn	2013 Summer	1	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/m/	029Joint 15th in Autumn	2012 Summer	4	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/mlp/	0226th in Autumn	2013 Winter	4	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/mu/a,	0011st	2011 Summer	7	2011 Summer	1	2014 Summer
/n/	0204th in Autumn	2012 Summer	2	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/po/	01515th	2013 Summer	2	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/s/	028Joint 11th in Autumn	2011 Summer	2	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/s4s/	010Joint 9th	2014 Summer	1	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/sci/	0215th in Autumn	2012 Summer	3	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/t/	02610th in Autumn	2015 Winter	0	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/tg/	0259th in Autumn	2012 Winter	5	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/toy/	009Joint 9th	2012 Summer	5	2014 Winter	0	n/a
/u/	0055th	2013 Summer	3	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/vg/	0033rd	2013 Winter	2	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/vp/	0237th in Autumn	2013 Winter	1	2015 Winter	0	n/a
/wg/	0193rd in Autumn	2013 Winter	4	2015 Winter	1	2013 Summer
/wsg/	012Joint 11th	2014 Summer	1	2014 Summer	0	n/a
/x/a	0044th	2011 Summer	7	2013 Summer	0	n/a

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

Events

There have been six events at Elite level, up to and including the 2014 Winter 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
2011 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2011	16	31	/a/	n/a	88	2.84
2012 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2011	16	31	/k/	n/a	113	3.65
2012 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2012	24	48	/sp/a	10/8	185	3.85
2013 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2013	32	64	/sp/	16	254	3.97
2013 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2013	32	64	/wg/	16	203	3.17
2014 4chan Winter Cup	PES 2014	32	64	/trv/	16	192	3.09
2014 4chan Summer Cup	PES 2014	32	64	/mu/	16	125	1.95
2015 4chan Winter Cup	TBD	32	64	TBD	16	-	-

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