I have a quick question on what he is talking about in above quote ^
Applicable teams are teams that are brand new,
OR teams that have played up to 6 games in the CTA open league (and no other league),
OR teams that have been in previous Crunch Cups and have played no more than 2 CTA games since (and no others),
OR teams that have been in the Crunch Cup affiliated leagues (such as the currently underway CTALE) and have played no more than 2 CTA matches (and no others) since then.
Some people like entering with fresh teams (they'll play mostly fresh or very low TV teams until the playoffs), and some people like bringing in established teams or returning teams (and they'll play similar TV teams until the playoffs). If i remember right, the lowest division teams don't play the highest division teams until the final match, to give the fresh start teams plenty of games, and the high TV teams a lot of opponents to kill their players before then