Altador Cup

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The famed trophy that gives the Cup its name.

The Altador Cup is a yearly sporting event that takes place at the Colosseum during the month of June. During the event, eighteen teams, each one representing a different Neopian land, compete in the sport of Yooyuball. Unlike other events on the Neopets website, the outcome of the Altador Cup is not pre-planed by TNT writers. Instead, the winning team is determined entirely by user participation.

Games

Users can participate in the Altador Cup by signing up for a team and then playing any of the four games. Every time a player submits a score for one of these games, they earn victory points for their team.

Yooyuball

Main article: Yooyuball

Yooyuball is the main draw of the Altador Cup. In this sport, two teams, each containing five players, play against each other. The object of the game is to score goals by getting a Yooyu, which serves as the game's ball, into the opponent's net. Yooyuball players use specially designed slings to catch, carry, and pass Yooyus.

Slushie Slinger

Main article: Slushie Slinger

Slushie Slinger was added to the Altador Cup in 2007. In this game, the player takes on the role of a Red Tuskaninny waitress as she frantically serves slushies to impatient, thirsty Yooyuball fans. The gameplay of Slushie Slinger was inspired by that of the 1983 arcade game Tapper.

Make Some Noise

Main article: Make Some Noise

Make Some Noise was also added to the Altador Cup in 2007. In this game, the player takes on the role of the Techo Fanatic as he cheers on the Yooyuball players at the Colosseum.

Shootout Showdown

Main article: Shootout Showdown

Shootout Showdown was added to the Altador Cup in 2009. In this game, players must score five goals against the practice team's goalkeeper within a sixty second time limit.

Champions

Altador Cup I: Haunted Woods defeated Darigan
Altador Cup II: Darigan defeated Roo Island
Altador Cup III: Roo Island defeated Krawk Island
Altador Cup IV: Krawk Island defeated Shenkuu
Altador Cup V: Lost Desert defeated Kreludor
Altador Cup VI: Virtupets defeated Krawk Island
Altador Cup VII: Kreludor defeated Mystery Island
Altador Cup VIII: Tyrannia defeated Altador

Team rosters

Teams	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Altador	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Brightvale	✔	✔	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔
Darigan Citadel	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Faerieland	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Haunted Woods	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Jelly World	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Kiko Lake	✔	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Krawk Island	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Kreludor	✔	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Lost Desert	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Maraqua	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Meridell	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Moltara	✘	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
Mystery Island	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Roo Island	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Shenkuu	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Terror Mountain	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Tyrannia	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Virtupets	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

For the first four years, the Altador Cup Tournament consisted of sixteen teams representing the lands of Neopia. Following the introduction of Shenkuu, one team sat out each year to keep the numbers even, until the discovery of Moltara allowed a full roster of eighteen teams to play in Altador Cup V. Users could only support one team at a time, and could only switch between teams in the first competition, between rounds.

The first team to cancel participation was Kreludor for Altador Cup II - in a statement by Derlyn Fonnet, this was due to a malfunctioning gravity generator leading to reduced "muscle and bone" density. The following year they returned to the competition, but Kiko Lake could not participate due to travel issues. Brightvale was unable to participate in Altador Cup IV as King Hagan thought it would make the country harder to govern.

An additional team is available each year as the practice team, from Jelly World. While the members of the team are unknown, it's known the Goalkeeper is a Jelly Kougra and the forwards a Jelly Kau and Usul.

So far Lutari Island has not participated in any of the Altador Cups, though two Lutari have.

Staff Tournament

As another part of the Altador Cup, The Neopets Team participates in a tournament play of their own. They did this in 2006, and only again in 2010.

Altador Cup Tournament items

Along with the release of the Altador Cup on June 1, 2006, a new Shop called Altador Cup Souvenirs opened, which sold sports team merchandise for each of the teams playing. Rather than Altador Cup Tournament items have a single use, they can be used for many different things. Hands and bottles are used as toys, pennants can be placed in Neohomes, and the jerseys are Clothes.

Annual Results

The final rankings of each team for that year.

Teams	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Altador	14	13	13	15	17	17	17	2
Brightvale	8	12	16	-	13	12	12	11
Darigan Citadel	2	1	7	7	3	7	4	5
Faerieland	16	15	15	16	15	15	18	16
Haunted Woods	1	7	8	10	12	11	9	9
Kiko Lake	13	14	-	14	16	16	6	14
Krawk Island	3	4	2	1	7	2	7	4
Kreludor	9	-	6	4	2	3	1	7
Lost Desert	5	5	3	3	1	13	5	12
Maraqua	10	9	10	5	5	4	8	9
Meridell	7	8	5	11	8	5	3	6
Moltara	-	-	-	-	18	18	15	18
Mystery Island	6	6	9	6	14	14	2	15
Roo Island	4	2	1	9	4	9	14	3
Shenkuu	-	3	4	2	11	10	16	12
Terror Mountain	15	10	12	13	9	8	11	7
Tyrannia	11	11	11	8	10	6	10	1
Virtupets	12	16	14	12	6	1	13	16

Trivia

• The first Altador Cup appeared to coincide with dates and times of the FIFA World Cup in Germany of 2006, and the golden orb, seen in the preview trailer, of the trophy bore a remarkable resemblance to the actual World Cup.
• Noted advertisements shown in North America within the 2006 tournament were a new Dragon Ball Z game being released in July 2006 and a new Garfield movie. For 2007, Evan Almighty was advertised.
• During Yooyuball game play when the Ixi and Grarrl news presenters are making their remarks about the teams, were a user to refrain from clicking the "continue" button, they would begin to ask the user to carry on, mention they see Tarla and need to hurry and catch her or reminding the user that sitting and watching them does not earn them points. A Spyder may also come down from the ceiling.
• Because there used to be 17 possible Altador Cup teams, and only 16 spots available for participating, every year, TNT had to choose one team to not participate, and choose a clever reason for it. The addition of Moltara City in 2010 made for an even total of 18 and thus no team was left out on the sidelines.
• Coincidentally, from 2006 to 2009, the winning team for each year's Altador Cup was the runner-up team for the previous tournament.
• Each of the 54 Neopet species is represented by at least one Yooyuball player.

See also

• Shops: Altador Cup Souvenirs

External links

• Altador Cup
• Altador Cup Prize Shop
• Animation Trailer
• Neopedia: Altador Cup
• Caption Competition: #712, #813
• Editorial: 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 252, 253, 264, 267