Game Week 20 was always planned as a bit of a curve ball for the FTL Cup to test how teams would manage would most of the top players were not playing. In end we had even more withdrawals than expected and its fair to say that one or two teams suffered more than others due to the withdrawals.
That said, and perhaps its because I was not involved in it, but it turned out to be quite an entertaining round with a lot of differences between the teams and some very entertaining match ups.
de Minotaurs were the team managed by Paul and Rick is now looking after this team admirably. They progressed against an injury hit Serve Squad.
Faris and Golden Slammers had an excellent game week and were too good for Stripes.
Cup specialist Pete (Bullseye) just pipped Antonela in a great match which ultimately came down a one off knockout between Berrettini for Pete against Tsitsipas for Antonela.
Vlad (The Macedonian) had an excellent game week and were just too strong for Adnan (Advantage Infinity).
Alcarazian Domination (Anthony) defeated nbladeweilder (Nikhil) to set up a quarter final against Team Le Tourneau (Sindre) who managed to see off Prepare for Czech mate (Tricia) in the only contest which went to the final day. The win for Fils over Zverev may have proved crucial for Sindre but Tricia may have needed Muchova to win as well as Zverev if she was to complete and amazing comeback.
No AO, No Problem (Rick's experimental team) were completely written off by their own boss in advance of their match with Kalinisaurus Rex (Jeremy). In the end they won the tie quite easily which just shows that you don't always need 8 player to have a great game week. Their opponent in the Quarter Final will be Aditya Sharma who saw off a beleaguered Smash Bros (Pieter-Jan).
The Quarter Finals of the Cup will take place in Game Week 24 (Cincinnati) so will be 10 player match ups with Dark Horses in play.
QF lineup
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