The Cup contest contains several knock-out rounds. The number of Cup rounds depends on the number of participants.

Гравець буде випадковим чином доданий до слота першого раунду Кубка, щойно буде введено прогноз на перший раунд Кубка. This task will be done by a program that runs every 30 minutes. Most of the Cup contests won't have exactly 16, 32, 64, 256, 512, 1024, ... participants, so some players will have a bye in the first Cup round.

Not all prediction rounds are part of the Cup contest. Якщо, наприклад, у грі з прогнозами 10 раундів прогнозів і беруть участь 200 гравців, то для Кубкового конкурсу знадобиться лише 8 раундів Кубка (2^8 = 256 місць у першому раунді).

In rare cases there are less Cup round slots than players participating. The Six Nations tournament e.g. contains only five rounds which results in only 2^5=32 available slots. In that case the first round will be used as a qualification round and the best 16 players will qualify for the Cup contest. Але більшість ігор на прогнозування включають більше ніж 10 раундів, що пропонує 2^10=1024 доступні слоти.

The player with the better score will proceed to the next cup round. The winner of the final Cup round is the winner of the Cup contest.

In case of a draw the following tie-breaking criteria will be applied:

• the result from the previous cup round
• усі інші раунди кубка (крок за кроком назад)
• the ranking from the Classic contest
• the ranking from the Cluster contests with the fewest prediction games

In some prediction games (mostly football) the Cup contest will be staged twice. If a Cup round contains one or more postponed matches, the according Cup round will be shifted to the next round.