The Cup Of The Week is a weekly competition that is being played in the Knockout game mode on Blue, Red and Black Tracks of the current seasonal official campaign.
COTW takes place every Saturday at 5 PM CET.
To participate, you need to connect on the Cup Of The Week online Room by the time it starts, before 5PM CET.
1/ Qualification phase
The qualification phase is the same as for the Cup Of The Day.
Once it is time, the server will automatically switch to the COTW qualification phase, in which you have ten minutes to finish the map initially and then five additional minutes to improve your time. If you do not manage to finish the map within those initial ten minutes, you will not qualify for the COTW’s Knockout phase.
Once the Qualification phase is over, your best time driven in those 15 minutes will determine your Qualification rank and you will be placed in a division of similarly skilled players (max. 64 players per division).
2/ Knockout phase
After the Qualification phase and a short waiting period, you will be automatically connected to your division’s match server. Once all players in your division are ready (or the warmup timer expires, whichever comes first), the Knockout match will start.
Knockout format explained:
In Trackmania’s Knockout format, players all start a round at the same time and the players either finishing in the last positions or not finishing at all will be knocked out. The first round of each Knockout match is a warm-up round and nobody will face elimination. The last player to remain after all other players have been knocked out will be crowned the winner of their division.
Knockout format on Blue and Red Tracks:
COTW on Blue and Red Tracks follow the same Knockout rules as the COTD.
| Number of players | Number of knocked-out players per round: |
| From 64 to 17 players: | 4 |
| From 16 to 9 players | 2 |
| From 8 to 2 players: | 1 |
Knockout format on Black Tracks:
The COTW played on Black Tracks offer a slightly different knockout format.
There’re 24 rounds in KO2 and 15 rounds in KO1.
| Number of players | Number of knocked-out players per round: |
| From 64 to 17 players: | 2 |
| From 16 to 2 players: | 1 |
3/ Trophies earned from playing Cup Of The Week
During the COTW, you will have two occasions to earn trophies: during the Qualification phase, and during the Knockout phase.
For the Qualification phase it is simple: the higher you are placed, the bigger your reward will be.
For the Knockout mode, it will depend on two factors: the level of your server, and your rank in the server. The level of your server depends on your rank in the qualification phase. If you finish the qualification phase in the Top 64, you will be placed in the Server Type 1 of the Knockout mode. If you finish in the Top 10% in Time Attack, then you will be placed in a Server Type 2, and so on…
The table below summarizes the type of server you will find yourself in, and the trophies you can claim.
4/ Points earned from Black COTW: EWC and ENC in-game qualification
The 10 Cups of the Week (COTW) on Black Tracks during the Winter and Spring seasons play a central role in the qualification process for the Esports World Cup and the Esports Nations Cup.
All 10 events are part of the Trackmania Elite Cup, which serves as an open in-game qualifier and offers a direct path to Riyadh.
Read the Trackmania Elite Cup article.
A full rule book will be soon available. Make sure to read it before the first Elite Cup match starts on February 14th.
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