2016 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (Champions: FC Dallas)

Post #1 » by **LittleOzzy** » Wed Jan 6, 2016 2:42 pm

The Official 2016 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Thread

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Post #2 » by **LittleOzzy** » Wed Jan 6, 2016 2:45 pm

On September 8, 2015 the United States Soccer Federation decided to prevent teams that were "majority owned by a higher-level Outdoor Professional League Team" from taking part in the competition.[1] This rule prevented several United Soccer League teams (Bethlehem Steel FC, LA Galaxy II, New York Red Bulls II, Orlando City B, Portland Timbers 2, Real Monarchs, Seattle Sounders FC 2 and Swope Park Rangers) from competing.[2] New York Cosmos Chief Operating Officer Erik Stover stated that eligible New York Cosmos B would not enter as the "the integrity of the tournament is more important".

I wonder how this will effect the tournament. Lots of missing teams, so I'm guessing the brackets will have to be shuffled around for size and what not.

Post #3 » by **LittleOzzy** » Tue May 10, 2016 2:11 pm

Tournament starts tomorrow, but it won't get real interesting until May 18th.

NASL teams come in June 1st, MLS teams come in June 15th

edfmx86 · Post #4 » by **edfmx86** » Tue May 10, 2016 10:50 pm

Hopefully some of the games are streamed. I feel like i love the USOC more than most MLS teams.

Queequeg · Post #5 » by **Queequeg** » Thu May 12, 2016 3:03 pm

I'm looking forward to it too. Going to try and go see a few cheap Red Bull games with the kids. It's a very interesting tournament.

edfmx86 · Post #6 » by **edfmx86** » Sat May 14, 2016 5:16 am

Queequeg wrote:I'm looking forward to it too. Going to try and go see a few cheap Red Bull games with the kids. It's a very interesting tournament.

Going completely off topic here, I don't know how long you've had your sig for but props! I'm a big Bright Eyes/Conor :wink:

Oberst fan. Greatest song writer ever, In my own personal opinion. Anyways...carry on..

Queequeg · Post #7 » by **Queequeg** » Sat May 14, 2016 10:37 am

edfmx86 wrote:
Queequeg wrote:I'm looking forward to it too. Going to try and go see a few cheap Red Bull games with the kids. It's a very interesting tournament.

Going completely off topic here, I don't know how long you've had your sig for but props! I'm a big Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst fan. Greatest song writer ever, In my own personal opinion. Anyways...carry on..

Thanks man. I used to listen to him a lot. He's amazing. I've had it a while now. I post mostly in the Celtics forum. So when there was a ton of debate about tanking and losing to get in the lottery for a better pick, or simply trying to win, this was a line that I remembered that subtlety showed where I stand.

Post #8 » by **LittleOzzy** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:59 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/opencup/status/743521295812464641[/tweet]

Post #9 » by **LittleOzzy** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:01 pm

Great final.

Well done FC Dallas