Jungle Wars: Clan cups

A new player asked me today if his personal losses were costing the clan cups. My answer intrigued him, so I am posting it here.

A big loss can cost the clan several points. However, it can also gain the clan points if your weaker, smaller army attacked a higher ranked player and got some results (while losing).

Meanwhile, a big win can gain the clan cups but it can also lose the clan cups if you used much force against a weaker, lower ranked player.

Highly ranked players who return to attack weaker players every day are costing their clan cups every day.

Since the system controls your list of targets you can get into a situation like I was in last year. Every time I won an attack, I cost my clan cups. It was a bad scene that did not end until I gained enough cups that the system changed my target list.