How the ChartFM Cup works

The ChartFM Cup is an artist tournament played by the community. Each artist has a representative who lines up 8 songs before the competition starts, and those songs face off in matches against other artists throughout a group stage and then a knockout stage. User votes decide the outcome of each match.

You take part in the Cup by voting in ongoing matches. Each match pits a song from one artist against a song from another artist, and you pick the one you prefer. The song with more votes wins the match.

Each day's matches are available at /copa/ao-vivo, along with a live scoreboard of who's ahead.

You don't need to root for the same artists the whole tournament, you can vote match by match, based on the songs facing off.

In the initial stage, artists are split into groups. To see each group's lineup and the updated points table, go to /copa/grupos.

The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage.

After the group stage, the competition becomes a knockout. To see the full bracket (who faces who in each stage, up to the final) go to /copa/chaveamento.

The bracket is updated as match results come in, so you can follow a specific artist's run as far as they get.

In short: 64 artists split into 16 groups of 4, over 12 days of competition. Each artist faces the other three in their group; the top two from each group advance to a 32-artist knockout stage up to the final. In the group stage, a tied score is worth 1 point for each side. In the knockout stage, tied goals are decided by total votes (penalties) and, if necessary, by Global 100 score.

This summary covers the essentials for following and voting. For the complete official rules, with all tiebreak criteria and lineup details, see /copa/regras.