4chan Cup
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Overview
4chan Cup is a series of e-sport tournaments in which 60 teams representing various boards on 4chan compete against each others in the Japanese football video game Pro Evolution Soccer. Each tournament match is webcast in real-time on the video game streaming platform Twitch.
Background
The inaugural 4chan Summer Cup was held among 16 teams from August 6th to 9th in 2011, with each game livecast via Twitch user Germanbro’s stream.[1] The /a/ (anime & manga) board won the tournament over the /ck/ (food & cooking) board in the final round.
Pro Evolution Soccer
Pro Evolution Soccer is a football video game series that began including an "online play" mode with the PlayStation 2 release of Pro Evolution Soccer 5 on February 7th, 2006. In October 2010, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 was released, which was the first game used in a 4chan Cup tournament (shown below, right).
Notable Developments
2012 4chan Winter Elite Cup
The 2012 4chan Winter Cup[2] ran from January 5th to the 8th in 2012, in which 16 teams competed with the /k/ (weapons) board winning against the /sp/ (sports) board in the final round.
2012 4chan Spring Babby Cup
The 2012 4chan Spring Babby Cup[4] was held on two consecutive weekends from March 23rd to April 1st in 2012 as a qualification tournament for the larger 4chan Cup games. The tournament was won by the /m/ (music) board after defeating the /3/ (3DCG) board in the final round.
2012 4chan Summer Elite Cup
The 2012 4chan Summer Cup[5] was held on two weekends from July 13th to the 21st in 2012, in which 24 teams competed against each other in six groups of four. The /sp/ (sports) board won the tournament 4-0 against the /int/ (international) board in the final round.
2012 4chan Autumn Babby Cup
The 2012 4chan Autumn Babby Cup[6] was held on two weekends from October 12th to the 21st in 2012, in which 32 teams competed with the /wg/ (wallpapers/general) board was victorious over the /r9k/ (robot 9000) board in the finals. This was the last tournament to use the game Pro Evolution Soccer 2012.
2013 4chan Winter Elite Cup
The 2013 4chan Winter Cup[7] was the first to use Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 and was held in three consecutive weekends from February 8th to the 24th in 2013. The /sp/ (sports) board won the tournament for a second time after defeating the /toy/ (toys) board in the final match.
2013 4chan Spring Babby Cup
The 2013 4chan Spring Babby Cup[8] was played during three weekends from May 3rd to the 19th in 2013, in which various teams that failed to reach the 2013 4chan Winter Cup competed against each other. The /mlp/ (My Little Pony) board won by defeating the /tv/ (television & film) board 4-0 in the final.
Dragongate
On May 23rd, 2013, the /sp/ (sports) board manager Loli posted evidence that the /n/ (transportation) board manager Dragonfang was using several other aliases, including the /cm/ (cute/male) board manager Kageyama and the former /sp/ manager Torres Mcllroy. The controversy led to /sp/ having both cup titles removed and was subsequently referred to as "Dragongate."[9]
![Who is Kageyama? In February 2013, an unusual post appears on /sp/ from /cm/' s manager, Kageyama. The post, displaying an Irish flag for a supposed French manager, leads other managers to question who Kageyama really i:s View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO doomorson png. 92 kB, 274x261 /sp/ Kageyama !Amorw9dIQ2 Mon Feb 04 2013 12:50:41 No.31527817 View Report 31527800 Ireland Seconds after posting, the post was deleted as shown by the archives efore this goes any further, let's ask Kageyama his nationality just in case, contrary to what he' s said previously, that he is Irish 曰□ Anonymous 05/07/13(Tue)17:12:38 No.34795915 [r] >>34796162 Wh y were you banned? And are vou actually from france, angry frenchman?:3c ] □ Kageyama Amorw9dIQ2 05/07/13(Tue)17: 16:09 No.347961 62/ ▼ ] Spamming and yes WELP. Maybe asking earnestly wasn' t such a great idea. Good thing we always have the wiki logs for these things! 012 Kageyama (TalkI contrbs) m.0,undRER September 2012 Kageyama (Talk I contribs) . (+28). .(undo) September 2012 109.78.225.97 (Talk)(290). (undo) (Logs for /cm/ wiki edits. You can see a mystery September 2012 109.78.225.97 (Talk). . (0).. (undo) September 2012 109.78.225.97 (Talk)+632) (undo) IP performs major edits before remembering to login.) So what do these edits prove? Not much alone, but they give us an interesting IP address location in, you guessed it, Ireland.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/719/266/721.jpg "721.jpg")
2013 4chan Summer Elite Cup
The 2013 4chan Summer Cup[10] was held for three weekends from August 16th to September 1st in 2013 and used the PESJP[11] modified version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2013. The /wg/ (wallpapers/general) board was victorious in the final against the /mu/ (music) board.
2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup
The 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup[12] was held for three weekends from November 15th to December 1st in 2013, with the /toy/ (toys) board winning against the /fa/ (fashion) board in the finals.
2014 4chan Winter Elite Cup
The 2014 4chan Winter Cup[13] was held for three weekends from February 14th to March 2nd in 2014 and was the first to use the game Pro Evolution Soccer 2014. The /trv/ (travel) board won the tournament against the /a/ (anime & manga) board in the final round.
2014 Spring Babby Cup
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2014 Summer Elite Cup
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2014 Autumn Babby Cup
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2015 Winter Elite Cup
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2015 Spring Babby Cup
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2015 Summer Elite Cup
Search Interest
External References
[2] Implying Rigged – 2012 4chan Winter Cup
[3] Implying Rigged – 2011 4chan Summer Cup
[4] Implying Rigged – 2012 4chan Spring Babby Cup
[5] Implying Rigged – 2012 4chan Summer Cup
[6] Implying Rigged – 2012 4chan Autumn Babby Cup
[7] Implying Rigger – 2013 4chan Winter Cup
[8] Implying Rigged – 2013 4chan Spring Babby Cup
[9] Implying Rigged – Dragongate
[10] Implying Rigged – 2013 4chan Summer Cup
fn11, PESJP – PESJP
[12] Implying Rigged – 2013 4chan Autumn Babby Cup
[13] Implying Rigged – 2014 4chan Winter Cup
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