News

12.02.2010
Cup Manager Awards
Hello everyone and welcome to the Cup Manager Awards!
And now please give thunderous applause to those nominated!

For the category "has only victories" the winner is...The Wonder Man!
For the category "the most goals scored by a team in a match" the winner is...The Steroid!
For the category "the most goals scored by a team overall" the winner is...The Scorer!
For the category "scores only equal matches" the winner is...Question Man!
For the category "the most categorically defeat" the winner is...Innocent Man!
For the category "the most goals received by a team overall" the winner is...Takes it all!
For the category "awarded with the most cards" the winner is...Bones Enemy!
For the category "the fewest cards received" the winner is...Fair Play!
For the category "always loses" the winner is...Lose again?!


Cup Manager motivates now it's users by granting Awards. You will all receive awards, nobody will be forgotten.

And once again, congratulation for all winners!
09.02.2010
Join Youth Cups!
More and more users are interested in playing Youth Cups.

So I am coming with additional information for those who are interested.
Anyone can register and play in a Youth Cup. You only need to have a youth team. In case you have a youth team but you appear as not having one, please access the option "Update" from the main menu.

It's simple. Go for it!
04.02.2010
Youth Cups and SMS/ Phone Call Payment
New features have been added.
You can now have more fun by creating and managing Youth Teams.

We have also implemented an online SMS payment system for the Cup Manager Supporters: very quick, easy to use and no more than 1.99 EURO per month.

Enjoy your game!
29.01.2010
Stai parlando italiano? Sprechen Sie deutsch? Parlez-vous français? Magyar beszélsz? Você fala português?
Hello Cup Manager users (and not only). Cup Manager is looking for new members for its Translators team. If you do speak English and are interested to help with the translation of the Cup Manager website to italian/german/french/hungarian/portuguese then please do contact us. The Cup Manager community will thank you for that.

Looking forward for your message.

P.S. Users interested to translate the Cup Manager to language not yet part of this website are invited to. We are always interested to develop and to improve this website. Thank you.
28.01.2010
Cup Manager 3.0
The new version - 3.0 - is online starting from today. Among the big improvements that we brought we would like to remind the following: totally new design, big improvement related to site loading speed, new options (for both supporters and no supporter users). There are other more new features you have to discover by yourself.

Have fun!
04.01.2010
Speed
Time for performance, all engines on. During last 2 weeks the Cup Manager engine has been reviewed for performance issues. You should notice an improvement regarding the loading of the website. If there are sections still loading slowly, please send a message to our team (best would be to send it - yeap, your guess is correct - obsy, the one).
03.01.2010
Ranking
  New rule for ranking : teams no active in the last 30 days are not added to ranking anymore. Only active users are part of the ranking (by active teams we understand that the owner has been logged in the last 30 days).
  Wanna see if an user is serious ? Try to search for him on the RANKING.
11.03.2009
100.000 cups organised
  The cup having number 100.000 has been created. Yes, more than 100.000 cups were created so far using Cup Manager. Thank you all
29.10.2008
cupmanager.org Offline
  Due rellocation reason, during 31.10 - 03.11 the cupmanager.org might be offline for a couple of hours. Please be patient until all the changes are done.

Thank you for your underastanding.
22.08.2008
PROBLEM FIXED
  The problem on updating results from Hattrick web server was solved - all the CHPP comunication has been updated/changed.
Now, it might be some of you to update the results manually to be able to go further with your cup. For those of you who like to reset this result added manually and to be able to update it automatically from Hattrick, just send a message to user obsy_ and he will help you.
Also - we've got tones of messages during this issue. All of them are about informing us that the update is not working. We took the decision not to answer to any of this messages. If any of you has special request, please send a message to user obsy_ again and he will help you.
Once again, sorry for the inconvenience and let's the game continue

P.S. This tones of messages told us how popular and used is Cup Manager. Thank you all of you for using Cup Manager.
22.08.2008
Error on update results
  At this moment we are experiencing problems on updating results from Hattrick web server. We are working hard on this to be fixed as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience, stay connected for news.
P.S. No cups will be deleted next week for inactivity until everybody is getting up to date with updates.
06.08.2008
Cleaning day
  Today Cup Manager team took the decision to delete all the accounts without any activity this year. With this, a number of 230.000 accounts were deleted. This way you can select only among active users.
17.07.2008
Polish
  Due to lemurek's industrial effort, the Cup Manager website is translated to polish (polski). Thank you.
17.07.2008
Credit card issue
  Some users reported a problem when purchasing the Supporter package using the 2checkout option. The issue has been investigated by our team (the problem was on our side) and we can say now everything is running smooth.
  Thank you all for reporting this to us and for your understanding. And we apologise for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
Cup Manager team.
15.07.2008
Translators need it.
  Cup Manager team is looking for new translators. If you do understand english and like to translate the website to your language just send a message to user obsy_.
  Positions are opened for new languages or existing ones ( more then one translator per language is allowed )

Thank you,
Cup Manager team.
02.05.2008
300 000 registered users !
  More then 300 000 users choosed to use Cup Manager for organising or being part of a friendly cup. The one with number 300 000 is right here

Thank you for using Cup Manager.
19.12.2007
Alias instead of Login name
  Starting today, on Cup Manager website, alias is displayed instead of your login name. This is a request from Hattrick. All of you are asked to log in and to update your team details. This way your alias will be read from Hattrick's website. To do that, in the main menu (the one with your team name) is an option called "Update". Click on it and your alias will be read from Hattrick's website.

Thank you for your understanding.
12.11.2007
Error downloading data - Update
  Seems the CHPP interface is stable now. Users reported some errors on downloading scorers and bookings. This error was on Cup Manager side and has been solved. All of you who wants to redownload the data for a match just send a message to user obsy_. Sorry for the inconvenience.
07.11.2007
Error downloading data
  A new version of CHPP interface has been developed and released by Hatttrick. Seems to be some errors on this new interface and the download action to crash. Please be patient until Hattrick guys fix this issue.
30.10.2007
Language translators
  Cup Manager is looking for translators. So, if you like to be part of an international team, send a message to user obsy_ and let him know for what language are you interested.
Thank you.
30.10.2007
FAQ
  A new section has been developed, the FAQ section. We hope this section will answer to most of your questions. If there is still something you are not finding here don't hesitate to write a message to obsy_.
18.10.2007
New features
  A new version has been released. This version's development was focused on improving a little bit the way users are interacting. For that,we released the following new features:
 -  'Invitations' concept arised. It's easy from now: do you have a cup and you don't know how to promote it ? Send invitations. This way users are one click away from your cup.
 - Another feature is the posibility to send a message to all participants to a cup: this way you can keep them informed about new changes or simply tell them a joke.
 - As a bonus, checkout the cup' statistic page. You can see statistics for all the editions of a cup.
 - And, the last one - not visible to users - is that a new translation system has been developed. This way translators can easily update texts from site.

Enjoy it !
17.10.2007
Face2Face system is here
Do you have something to prove to one of your "friends". That time has come. You can challenge him to a Face2Face competition. How could you do that ? Nothing easier: just log in the Cup Manager, create a new cup of Face2Face type, challenge your "friend" and that would be all.

Have you challenged your "friend" ?
13.07.2007
Out of office !
   Between 14 - 24 of July the Cup Manager office will be closed. You can leave your messages, we will answer you on 25 of July.

/CM team
19.06.2007
Deleting cups
   Some users write to us asking about their disappeared cups. Hope this will answer their questions and it will clarify that for the future.

  Cups do not just disappeare. As it states in the rules, a cup is deleted in one of the following situations:
- it is a dummy cup, all the results were specified manually
- the cup is not finished in 5 days after the last round
- the cup is not started in 5 days from the date it should start

Fir further details, please, do not hesitate to contact us. For this, use the Contact page.

/CM team
07.05.2007
Contact us
  In the last time we received a lot of emails on orders at cupmanager.org mailbox regarding this application rules and other stuff.

  Please,do not send emails to this email adresse, this mailbox is designed for Cup Manager Supporter issues. All this emails will be ignored.

  If you want to get in contact with us, please, use the contact methods described in cupmanager menu.

  Thank you,
  /CM team
02.02.2007
Share you trophies
  Is time to share your trophies with your friends. Nothing easier then this: on your team page is a link leading you to generate this "shared" image. Click on that link and follow the instructions.

Have you won any trophy ?
31.01.2007
Maintenance
  Due a minor bug at the registration process some users had succeeded to register their team more then once. The bug has been eliminated. We had to set as inactive all this multiple acounts. Users who can't access their account are asked to contact us by HT Mail (user obsy_) to reactivate their accounts.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

/CM team
05.01.2007
200.000
  We are 200.000 registered users. You may salute our 200.000 registered user right here .
24.12.2006
Happy Holidays
  Happy Holidays and our very best wishes for the holidays. Be good.
19.10.2006
Russian
  A big thanx goes to Bokrenok responsable for russian translation. Thank you.
13.10.2006
Bulgarian
  Thanx to hacko1912 our site is translated to bulgarian too. Thank you.
14.07.2006
Update results
  During thursday and friday the Hattrick server is/was down. It make no sense to try to update the results because there is no response from Hattrick web serber. Patient until Hattrick webserver is back - check out the Cup Manager conference in the while, a lot of interesting topics are waiting.
05.07.2006
Tehnical problems
  At this moment some tehnical probelms occured on the webserver software. Because of that, the conference and any actions regarding matches are not working. We are apologize for that and we are woking on it.

/CM Team
09.06.2006
NewsLetter
  Starting today, due to the heavy activity on the webserver, the NewsLetter option has been deactivated from cup administration and alliance administration menu. It will stay like this until I will find a nicer solution. Seems like this was the reason why some users didn't received their password by email when using the "Lost paswword" option.
18.04.2006
Uefa Champions League ...
  ... is here. Starting today, a new system is available: Uefa Champions League (groups having the rematch as option).
14.04.2006
Cup Manager 3.7
  Cup Manager 3.7 has been launched. What's new? A lot of new features are available in this new version. Here are a few of the new features::

 - alliances
 - guestbook
 - new layout
 - new conference system

Enjoy it !
23.02.2006
Redesign Cup Manger - interested in cooperation?
  How would you like redesigning the Cup Manager? How does a cooperation with the Cup Manager team sound to you? If you consider this a challenge, if you think of yourself as of a talented person, if you want to show them all how good you are, send a message to obsy_
10.02.2006
Dansk
  Thanx to JonasLyngholm our site is translated to danish. Thank you.
18.01.2006
Test Supporter service pack
  The Cup Manager Team is looking for users who are interested in testing the Supporter service pack. We activate the service pack 3 Months Supporter for them, time during which we kindly ask them to test the services oferred. Whoever is interested please send a message to the user obsy_. Thank you.
18.01.2006
Survey
  We want to permanently improve the Cup Manager. We launch a survey in order to meet your needs. Your opinion matters! So please login and vote!
16.01.2006
Cup Manager 3.6
  Cup Manager 3.6 has been launched. What's new? The Supporter service pack. Among the facilities there are:

 - no more banner
 - cup logos
 - team logo
 - no more commercials

More details here: Supporter
21.12.2005
Merry Xmass
  I wish you all and for your families a very peaceful Christmas Eve, lots of happiness and joy and a Happy New Year!
  Ich wuensche allen und fuer Ihre Familien eine wunderschoene und harmonische Weihnachtsvorabend und ein glueckliches neues Jahr!
  Va doresc un Cariun Fericit si un An Nou plin de bucurii!
  Feliz Navidad Y Prospero Ano Nuevo!
  Kellemes Karacsonyi Unnepeket es egy Boldog Uj Evet kivanunk!
14.12.2005
Cup Manager 3.5
  A new version of cupmanager has been released. These are a few of the new features :

 - you may now be announced by email every time when your application to a cup has been accepted/refused/replaced
 - a cup can be interrupted(paused) for a period
 - a lot of general statistics
 - and more ...

Enjoy it !
14.10.2005
Language no 13
  The 14th of october bring us the 13th language, Magyar. Thank you Blhand !
11.10.2005
Suomi and Hrvatski
  Time for 2 new languages. Thank you Risto80 , Thank you AndyCro !
29.07.2005
Vacation
  29.07 - 17.08 I'll be on vacation.
19.07.2005
Time for norwegian
  Thanks to hell_gee and his friend geik73 the cupmanager site is, starting today, translated to norwegian. Thank you.
08.07.2005
Türkçe
  Thanx to sk1993, and to his team formed by fatihsulak, Vatmaca, mafyA, PeriGee, our site is translated to turkish. Thank you.
17.06.2005
Vacation
   Between 18 - 27 of June I will be on vacation. During this period I will not answer to any messages.

/obsy_
14.06.2005
Catalan and Portuguese
  These are the last 2 languages Cup Manager is available. Thank you AnDRe_br , Thank you arobo!
09.06.2005
Parlez-Vous Francais
  Thanx to Bazim, our site is translated to french. Merci beacoup.
03.06.2005
Black Thursday
Yesterday, 02.06.2005, I had a problem with the hard-disk ( it crashed), so, all the data of the last motnh were lost. All I could retrieve is online. I'm sorry for the inconveninece.

/obsy_
31.03.2005
Security Code
   Starting from today we introduced the security code, according to the demands of the Hattrick team. We remind you that you can set this security code in the Preferences section. Using a wrong code repeatedly may lead to the account being blocked.
11.03.2005
Match report
   The match report has been improved. Now you can see match's events, cards and others. Check it.
04.03.2005
cupman@cupmanager.org
   Please, do not write any email to this email address. If you want to contact me use the Hattrick internal message. This email address is used only for password recovery. I will not answer at any email wrote to this address.
04.03.2005
New system - League
   A beta version of league system is now available. You can make your own league where the number of teams can be up to 8 teams.
01.03.2005
Arena
  Cup administrators can select now the place where the match should be played - this option is called "Change arena". Also, a small improvement has been made at the TOP100. Check it to see the improvement.
16.02.2005
Updating results
  The only persons allowed to update the results of a cup are the administrators of the cups or the co-organizers. They are asked to take their respnsibility seriously and to update the results in time, otherwise the cups will be considered as unused cups and will be deleted. This way all the details of the cup will be lost.
16.02.2005
Start date of the cup
  Please be careful when selecting the start date of the cup. Periodically, all the cups that did not start at the specified start date will be deleted automatically. This operation is irreversible. So please pay attention to this information.
15.02.2005
Finally, a real NewsLetter
  A new facility has been added: you can send a NewsLetter to the participants in the cup. The user needs to have an e-mail adress, which can be set in the "Settings" section. We remind you that there will be real e-mails sent and not messages using the internal messaging system.
13.02.2005
Groups - Manually
  Now you can set the groups manually. Check the cup details page.
09.02.2005
Groups - Beta version
  Starting from today there is a new competition system available: the system of type "groups". You can find it in the beta version. Enjoy!
03.02.2005
Avatars on cup's conference
  On the settings section you have the option to select one of the 22 avatars for the conference.
02.02.2005
Automatically deleting a cup
  All the cups that do not start at the date the administrator selected will be deleted automatically and all the information regarding them will be lost. All the cups started and abandoned will also be deleted. That is why we ask all the administrators to be careful with the start date of the cup.

 For further details, please check this section
27.01.2005
How do I contact you ?
  At this moment, the only way you can contact me is by HT-Mail.
27.01.2005
Present
  As promised, today we launch the new version of CupManager, 3.0 Alfa. What's new? The interface, the way of interaction and many more. We invite you to discover the new version!
27.01.2005
History
  Cup Manager 2.0. is about to become history. The old version can be used until all the cups are finished using the following link : http://history.cupmanager.org.