The Waterford Crystal Cup was an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 2006 to 2015 for the top inter-county teams and third-level institutes and universities in the province of Munster in Ireland.
The prize for the winning team is a special piece of glassware donated by Waterford Crystal.
This cup competition was always been played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team loses they are eliminated from the series of games.
The Waterford Crystal Cup is a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random - there are no seeds.
If a match is drawn a period of extra-time is played, however, if both sides are still level at the end a second replay takes place and so on until a winner is found.