To be honest , this competition is a bit "mickey mouse"....
I saw the final last year in Pardubice , as it was staged the day before the Czech Golden Helmet (same thing this year too, but at Debrecen, as you know...)
This tourney is usually only contested by teams from the "former eastern bloc" countries , and some German teams....
Lada Togliatti from Russia won last year, thanks largely due to their "hired hands for the day" , who were Jason Crump & Ryan Sullivan.....To be best of my knowledge , neither of those two have ridden in the Russian League for Togliatti....