When there is a 2 division gap, the amateur team automatically hosts.
Ligue 1 teams join with the first game post winter break - meaning their first game after a 2 week break is on a terrible half frozen pitch.
There also seems to be a favouring of smaller sides, commentators (games are on state tv) are extremely pro amateurs.
Added to that, the French cup is the largest national cup in the world with a massive amount of amateur teams participating. There are some amateur clubs who have made it a speciality of theirs to be giant killers during the cup (Quevilly and Carquefou)
Angola already qualified in 2006. The best teams yet to qualify are Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. Would be cool to have a surprise East African team make it.