A cup run is not one match — it is a sequence with its own momentum. I-Ching cup runs analysis reads a club's knockout journey as a chain of hexagrams, each round a link.
Champion runs share a structural signature: an early-round hexagram of establishment (the club finding its tournament identity), a middle-round hexagram of adaptation (the moving line shifting round to round), and a late-round hexagram of completion. Cinderella runs invert the pattern — chaos first, composure late.
Tracking a run, the analyst watches one position across the chain: the 'momentum line' that keeps appearing as the moving line. When it persists, the run has legs. When it shifts, the run stalls — often the round before the exit.
The daily report covers each cup round as it arrives. For readers who want the full sequence, the monthly review assembles the season's cup chains — the film assembled from the daily frames.