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The Tournament's World Cup format features two rounds of play.
Qualification Round: Teams will be randomly placed into Four or Six Team Pools for a round-robin tournament format. Each team plays three 20-minute games. Teams are awarded points based on their wins, losses, and ties. Total points earned are used to seed the teams into Eight or Six Team Divisions for the Championship round of play.
Championship Round: Each eight or six team division will start its own series of championship elimination games on Saturday afternoon. The four winning teams will advance into Sunday’s winners’ bracket and the four losing teams will move into the losers’ bracket. In Sunday's Championship round's elimination format; one team will advance from the losers’ bracket to challenge the team from the winners’ bracket for the division championship. Teams will play at least 3 championship round games. All games are now 40-minute games and drawn matches are decided by the Dillsburg Dual Shootout format.
Eligibility: The tournament is open to all soccer club teams that play during the 2025 Fall season and belong to their local, state, and national association and carry a current US Youth Soccer or other approved soccer organization validated player passes.
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