I cant fault the work you've done in messaging all the mangers Steve, I doth my cap to you in that respect, people like you keep the game buzzing. however this needs to be restarted and be made 1 team per user. People should know by now if you enter your own teams side by side you will play them in the first round. Still, that's besides the point.. 2 teams even in a league this big is an unfair advantage and should not be allowed, and that's the same for any private league or division. It's cheating and unfair. It's bad enough that managers have the potential to have up to 8 teams in the champions shield, Icc and elite cup if they qualify respectively
1 team per user. Feel free to rotate which team you put in each edition of the cup, but don't put more than 1 team in in fairness of all the managers only using 1 team. These rules should apply across any private league and division on the game and perhaps should be stickied somewhere on a thread to be made clear to all managers with more than 1 team so no breaches of rules are happening going forwards.
There's every chance I'll be ko'ed in the first round if this gets restarted, but I'd have liked to have had the chance to enter and compete in a fair competition rather than log on and see that people have thrown in all their teams because it's free and they had no clear guidelines as to what is fair and what isn't.