Only the finals to play! Will Sweden take their first victory or will we finally have an American victory? Will Krull FF's Jonatan Igelblom score more than 2 goals to win the top scorers table or will Vitold Osipov and Georges Manfait share the victory?

 

THIS IS THE LAST LRC IN MY COMMAND!

I have decided NOT to run any more LRC's. Unfortunately work takes too much time and I have no chance to run this cup in a professional way. If someone feels they can take over, please let me know, otherwise I want to thank all of you participating. It was nice to get to know most of you, and I'm sure we will bump into each other in HT some way or another in the future as well!!!

 

 

 

 

Due to the much unexpected breakdown from Hattrick during Wednesday evening all places has not been filled yet! We are awaiting a match in USA and have to fill another 4 vacant spots. There is an ad in the Global and English conference and hopefully all spots are full during early Thursday evening (can't do it earlier due to work!). If you are interested in LRC, please send Kelju (Sweden) a HT-mail asap and don't arrange for another friendly. If you already are in the cup, please arrange for the first round (note that the teams given places today have been informed, but their opponents in the same group have not!). If you don't know, please press the link "LRC5" to the left and you can see which teams are in the cup. The groups you'll find under "Teams/groups" and the fixture under "schedule/results". 

 

Today the draws for the groups was decided (see the page for groups). So far 19 teams are ready for the cup and we expect more to be confirmed after next cup round. If there are not 32 teams decided after that we will do a rush advertisement at the global conference to fill up the positions! So, for teams in LRC, please don't arrange for another friendly after next Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday (depending on what day your country plays). The cup starts approx. 27th August and there WILL BE matches for all of you. Latest during Friday (22nd) all groups should be confirmed! If your opponent arranges for a match outside LRC he/she will be replaced!!!

 

The management has decided to run the LRC5 after all! The planning has started and right now we are awaiting another cup-round before sending out invitation. The teams fulfilling LRC4 are the ones first receiving the invitations. The cup starts the week after the fifth match in the series. If you want to place your team on the waitinglist, please contact Kelju (Sweden).

 

Congratulations to FC Chelyabinsk defending last years victory with another win against a Swedish team in the final. Also congratulations to Krull FF's Mats Nyling winning the top scorers league with a new cup-record.

 

The planning for LRC5 has started and it will start as last season! However, as I will start a new job with a lot of travelling it will mean less time in front of HT. Thus I can't monitor the teams joining the cup on a regular basis. Most work is of course in the first round when the last positions has to be filled! Any one interested in helping me?

 

Almost a month since the last written news and not too fast update either. I'm sorry for this but I have to blaim it on vacation and the fact that I'm getting a new job. The new job will mean more work and especially more travelling meaning that the future LRC's may (I hope not) be monitored less closely. If not I need to have assistance in monitoring the cup. The update of the homepage, I can manage but as I don't have access to HT at work any longer I can only monitor it on evenings! Any interested?

 

Tomorrow the final will be played. Will Sweden take their first victory or can FC Chelyabinsk defend last years championship? Krull FF has probably a better team, but one never knows!

 

The groupstages has ended! Please see the link endstages to see which teams qualified and to see the schedule. Please arrange for the matches as usual but use cup-rules instead of normal rules. The homepage will be updated asap and the teams in the endstages will also receive a HT-mail during Thursday evening! 

 

Yet again all 16 matches were arranged for! Of course, one should be able to expect participating teams to arrange for the matches, but so hasn't been the case in previous LRC's, making LRC4 the most fun cup for me as an organiser! Thanks to all of you!!! Schedule for the coming rounds you can find on the homepage. I will not send out reminders every week! The hometeam is responsible for challenging the awayteam but if there a no challenge when the awayteam logs in, it's recommendable for the awayteam to challenge the hometeam (just remember to challenge as awayteam!)

 

If you can't log in for some time due to travelling, work, don't have access to Internet during weekends etc, please let me know. Both me and the opposition then knows your intentions! 

 

FANTASTIC!!! For the first time in the cup history we will play a full round without any w.o.´s. All the matches are arranged for, even if we had to replace one team late! Let's keep up the good work and make LRC4 the most fun cup of them all! Welcome to all new teams not having played LRC before and of course welcome back to all you addicts that can't live without LRC (or was it HT???). Anyway, the fun can begin!!! Good luck everyone whatever your purposes are with LRC (some wants to win and some just need to train their loosy defenders!)

 

LRC4 is getting closer. The cup starts at the 7th of May and there are still half the places uncertain as a lot of invited (and also announced interest in the pre-invitation) teams are still in their national cups. As always we have to wait for the last nat cup-round before LRC starts. There are some teams on the waitinglist and I'm sure we will fill all positions!

 

After a smoothly running play-off, the final was played today. The best team from the group stages, FC Chelyabinsk, played home against the big surprise, Helgonen. As predicted it was an easy victory for the Russians, but the visitors were very happy with the silver-medails!

 

The cup-management congratulates the winner and thank all participating teams! The top-scorer of the cup will be announce within shortly!

 

The planning for LRC4 will soon begin. Already now we can announce some news. First, the cup will be delayed one week, allowing as many old "good behaving" teams as possible to join LRC4. As you all have noticed we had a lot of wo's in the groupstages and the discussing right now is wether to have 32 teams or a number of teams possible to divide with four, meaning that some 3-placed teams will reach the endstages. As before, new teams, recommended by an old team will get vacant positions first (unless they are from USA, as USA has reached their number of teams in the cup-limit. We will try to have as many nations as possible represented).

 

After looking fairly good after three rounds the wo's and withdrawals in the cup has accelerated making it no fun as well for the organiser nor the partizipating teams! Especially poor FC Blind Guardian has suffered from this with 4 (out of 5) wo's in their favour. We want to play, not win by wo! After the fourth round we had another two replacements as The Wuzz withdrew due to financial reasons. PHAT United has also left the cup due to being afraid of getting more injuries!!! You don't have to ask me what I think about their reasons or the behaviour of not completing a cup you have entered! Well, at least we warmly welcomes 1.FC Lok Hoyerswerda from Germany and Diname from Croatia as their replacements!

 

After the 5th round we're going to have to replace several teams, but I think I will not succeed finding teams enough!

 

Even before the 4th round is played I can tell the worst result in LRC3. Five matches will be decided by wo and one team have announced their withdrawal after this round due to financial reasons! Please try to have high moral and complete the cup you once entered, both to justify your own team but mostly to let your fellow cup-opponents to enjoy their Hattrick! After this round FC Martinek will be replaced by VFC Frederik Viimsi. We warmly welcomes the Estonians!

 

The Bill Football Club and Spirulina has been replaced by Efreddy FC (Spain) and The Divine Crazies (Belgium). We welcome the new teams. Both rounds have had 13 matches played. Two of the walk overs each round was depending on the now replaced teams and of course defending champion Bayern Hof also leaves wo due to their succesful run in their national cup! It would be great to have 15 matches played in round 3. I am very pleased with all the teams in LRC3. It makes much more fun to organise a cup when the competing teams behaves with high moral!

 

 

 

A referees committee has been set up to investigate and take decisions about situations not covered by the rules. The committee consists of the teams Helgonen (chairman), Street Walkers, Muresul Deva and Cassinia Crusaders.

 

Tomorrow (already today) the cups begin! I'm pleased to see that we will have only 3 wo's whereof one is the defending champion who still plays in his national cup. Of course two other wo's is not good, but in times around Christmas and New Year I think it's reasonable. The interest for LRC3 was enormous and we really shouldn't need to have teams being withdrawn like last year. Please, remember that I will not send out your schedule like I did in the first round. You will have to find your schedule at the link "schedule/results". Please also remember that if you don't receive a challenge from the hometeam, challenge them on your own instead but as an away-team. Some of us are not lucky to have instant access to the net and thus it will help them (and yourself) a lot!

 

The draws has already been made, but as we still wait for almost 50% of the teams to fill their spots there are of course a lot of empty spots! Almost all definite entries has answered their "personal" questions and the waitinglist is growing bigger! I'm certain we will have 32 entries when the arranging for matches starts tomorrow (pls bear in mind that USA plays their matches early in the morning the 2nd of January (European time)). Pls, all teams interested in the cup should allow some time to receive challanging according to the cup-rules!

 

New rule! As the challenging didn't always work last season and HT has changed dates for England and Germany LRC has been forced to implement new rules regarding challenging! The hometeam must challenge their opponent before 10 am (GMT) on Saturday and the awayteam must accept before 10 am (GMT) on Monday. To avoid discussions due to late challenges or even HT-server performence, please make your challenges asap!

 

Invitations for LRC3 are going to be sent out from today. Teams with "clean" sheets (i.e. not leaving unexpected w.o.'s in previous LRC-cups will get invitations). Other teams could announce their interest as there remains several empty spots. The cup will start after the fourth match in the new season. New! To make the teams more familiar with each other, please answer the same headlines as in this link. If you don't have any logo, it doesn't matter! Please also tell me which is the biggest town in your region. I'm working on a world-map pointing out the teams!

 

The cup managment congratulates Bayern Hof from Germany to the victory in LRC2. Once again Street Walkers was runner-ups!

 

The planning for LRC3 has started and the cup will preliminary start 4 weeks into the new season!