About the Cup

The Altador Cup is a tournament that takes place on Neopets every summer. After a thousand year hiatus, the Altador Cup was released again in 2006. During this organized sporting tournament, teams of 5 players coming from every Neopian world are facing each other at Yooyuball in hopes to win the cup and the champion title that goes with it.

You might be wondering who is in charge of the organization of such an important event across Neopia. The whole Altador Cup is organized and supervised by the Altador Cup Committee who are ensuring that rules are followed during all matches.

The Altador Cup Committee

Since the introduction of a new Neopets world (Shenkuu) at the end of summer 2006, one of the 17 teams has to declare a forfeit. In 2007, Kreludor was out of the tournament because their training centre's gravity control was not working properly. Therefore, they were not prepared for the tournament. This year, Kiko Lake will not be taking part into the event.

We now have a different tournament structure. Indeed, TNT decided to keep the usual Double Round Robin style for the first 30 days of the competition, but then instead of the top 4 playing and the others being eliminated, there will be groups. This means that groups ranked 1-4, 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16 after DRR will have the chance to see who is the best in their group.

Allow me to explain with an example: imagine Maraqua gets ranked 6th after DRR. This means that they will compete between teams ranked 5th to 8th, with the best playing the worse, and the two middles teams playing each other. The best team (the one with the most wins against each other in the final group phase) will be crowned champion of its group, and the same applies to the worse. This is implemented so everyone can play with their team from start to finish.

The four leading teams overall will still be in contention for a place on the Altador Cup winners' pedestal, but now, a fourth place team could sneak to the top on two wins, and emerge victorious!