I had this idea a while ago, and now I've decided to go for it and see how it goes.

Concept:

Basically, what this is is a run-of-the-mill osu! tournament, except all the songs must be played with the Flashlight mod. I think this will make it a lot more interesting and more of an intellectual battle.

Format:

I'm aiming for 32 players. If we get 32 players, they will initially be divided into sixteen groups of two. For each group, both players in a group will play three songs with the Flashlight mod enabled and the person who obtains the higher score (in the case of a tie, that song is played again until one person obtains a higher score than the other) in more songs will advance. The advancing players will then be paired against one another, which continues until only one person, the winner, remains.

Note: This can be done with more or less than 32 players as long as the number of players can be obtained by multiplying any number of 2s and any number of 3s. If this is a case, the rounds will switch to round robins after the number of players is divisible by 3 and not 2.

There is a one-week deadline on matches. If neither player does anything during this one-week deadline, they both will be disqualified and the person who would normally face that person in the next round would receive a bye. If one player tells me they tried to contact the other player but received no response, and there is no excuse from the other player, the other player will be disqualified and the player will receive a bye.

How it will work:

This will take place in multiplayer games (involving two players and a judge observing the match to confirm the winner to me (using screenshots). Both players should also confirm who won, so that if the judge gives a different result than both players combined without a screenshot his/her result can be overruled.

The settings should be as follows:

Play Mode: osu! Standard
Team Mode: Head To Head
Win Condition: Score

The songs will be decided in a similar manner to the Tag Team tournament. One player will pick one song from a list provided for that round, another player will pick a song from that list, and the third will be decided by the judge for that match (preferably randomly).

Prizes:

Unfortunately, no prizes are planned.

Signing up:

To sign up, post in this thread saying you're signing up. Also, post your time zone and when you'll be able to play - that way it'll be out there for anyone who plays you.

Feel free to post questions, comments, and especially signups.

Entrants:

Hanyuu
Nakata Yuji
Hurude Rika
nightvenom
ShaggoN
Sousei
Ain053
KillerRind
fartownik
KRZY
Gomo Psivarh
Snowball
Lunah
Lybydose
noneed
SuperMaay

The problem with Flashlight is that if the match happens to be on that one map that I happen to have memorized, it's not even going to be close (actually I can't do that first one any more...). My opponents probably wouldn't even pass.

On the other hand, Hidden is usually pretty doable even if you've never played the map, or only played it a couple times. Same with Double Time, but with a more limited mapset.

IMO, if you memorize the map then that's an advantage you have. To combat this I plan on posting the list of beatmaps in advance, so that players have some time to become more familiar with them. Either that or I (or someone else) could create some maps that could be used in place of the judges picking a map.

Besides, if someone wins because they just happened to memorize a map and are otherwise not good with Flashlight, they probably won't make it that far because eventually someone who is better at playing maps they haven't seen with Flashlight will beat them on a map they didn't happen to memorize (probably the judges' selections). If they are generally good with Flashlight, then they should make it far into the tournament anyway.

Wow... A flashlight tournament...


I'm pretty interested, but I feel that for the sake of the tournament I should pass to give more skilled players a chance to compete against each other

I should perhaps hold another competition with maps with easier difficulties (say, Normal and Hard instead of Insane or Lunatic) and have some of the less skilled players participate, myself included.

I suck at flashlight, so count me out.

i love flashlight and this sound very interesting
i think this tournament will be possible if you do not chose so many beatmaps so the player can prepare for it

i am interested

I'll join, I'm on after 5:00 est. Just pm me or something.

I plan to make the players be able to choose from five or so beatmaps each round. This won't be that many, but at the same time it won't be so few that you're almost certainly going to end up playing one of the songs.



Hidden, Hard Rock, and Double Time can be added if both players agree on it (and No Video can be added individually, of course).



The maps that are going to be selected for each round will be posted a few days before the tournament starts.



Looks like you're the first entrant.

I'll join

Btw when will this be held ?

That will be decided after we get 32 entrants or if people stop joining after we get a reasonable number that's less than 32.

Then again we might not even get to that point at this rate...

This is true.

I forgot to add that I'm Est. and i can be on anytime between 6PM~12AM

So, I can participate , but only at weekends .