@majstor-matt I now stop managing teams when I have no chance after 4 rounds in a tournament. This means that my line-up may be incomplete in the last 2 rounds. I don't think this is better than resigning. I never resign from leagues (except when someone screws a league up by spending loads of coins). But for Winners Cup tournaments, I just don't want to play at 16:xx or 17:xx because I have no chance to qualify against other active managers (and managers in a Winners Cup are active, because otherwise they wouldn't qualify and register for a Winners Cup).
I hope GameBasics can come with a solution for winners cups that avoids managers are placed on a server with completely different time than the server they played on in their regular league. I think it would be good to give managers a choice when they sign up for a Winners Cup. For example give them the opportunity to block certain time slots. I am prepared to wait a day longer for a Winners Cup to start on a normal time and I think this could help people in Asia or USA as well. And same option would be nice for VIP League's.