Kanye West wrote:

What. This is an online tournament for friendly competition. Not a multimillion dollar e-sport. The profile badge is a good enough trophy.

Kert wrote:

a single timezone for the whole team is totally not cool
I would giggle if some of our players will have to play at 4 night or so

AmaiHachimitsu wrote:

No drama this year, perhaps???

Loctav wrote:

We plan to hand out real existing trophies. No final confirmation, yet - so still uncertain.

Damara-Chan wrote:

GO!! INDONESIA!!! Aiming to be victory tehehehehe ^_^

donjuan_217 wrote:

hola el torneo que se va a llevar a cabo es de ¿ OSU Catch the Beat ?



hello the tournament to be carried out is ¿ OSU Catch the Beat ?

khalifa father wrote:

i have register the bahrain team, i hope it is accept

Alarido wrote:

About Timezones: Just a few countries - namely Russia, China and NAFTA - may have such timezone issues - easily defeatable/supportable with goodwill (like olympic athlets who face several restrictions, like food limitation and intensive trainings for winning their trophies and medals). Love solves all - or almost all.

Damara-Chan wrote:

GO!! INDONESIA!!! Aiming to be victory tehehehehe ^_^

*.* yes, but for my dear AnreFM~ and for Niva, my favorite player (besides lewa-chan)... In truth, longing for a final match Brazil x Indonesia (please don't start flooding, guys!)

darkmiz wrote:

Why is flashlight allowed in free mod

Metro wrote:

khalifa father wrote:

i have register the bahrain team, i hope it is accept

friendok <3

AmaiHachimitsu wrote:

No drama this year, perhaps???

cr1m wrote:

I think registration with form is stupid way, because anyone can create a team and how the fuck you will understand where is real country team?

dato93 wrote:

Why I cant see Japan and Corea teams?

buny wrote:

pls open #cow

also since team leaders aren't scheduling times, are you going to try to make it so that the times would work, or are you expecting us to have 4 people on at any given time?

akupp wrote:

cr1m wrote:

I think registration with form is stupid way, because anyone can create a team and how the fuck you will understand where is real country team?

Are there any "procedure" for not letting this kind happen, because some random guy can easily say he is the one who representing the country. Even people who ranked #60,000+ claim that he will become captain for Malaysia country to join this. No joke.

darkmiz wrote:

Why is flashlight allowed in free mod

pielak213 wrote:

The reason we didn't have hard maps in the last owc is because failing would make it so your score won't count. The rules clearly states that failing won't do that this tournament.

There was recently a "suggest a map" poll to help determine the maps for owc. There was a line somewhere that said "all suggestions will be considered". I would be extremely surprised if everyone didn't choose the hardest maps they know to watch the best players of each country face off in the hardest maps average players can think of.

Wishy wrote:

We are not gonna go and pick BB and 4D if that's what you guys are thinking.

The reason we didn't have hard maps in the last owc is because failing would make it so your score won't count. The rules clearly states that failing won't do that this tournament.

There was recently a "suggest a map" poll to help determine the maps for owc. There was a line somewhere that said "all suggestions will be considered". I would be extremely surprised if everyone didn't choose the hardest maps they know to watch the best players of each country face off in the hardest maps average players can think of.

pielak213 wrote:

Wishy wrote:

We are not gonna go and pick BB and 4D if that's what you guys are thinking.

Will there be a lot of ar9 dts?

Mr Color wrote:

Actually, there's only going to be AR8-7 Insanes rotating around 140-160bpm. I've seen to it.




there's gonna be all sorts of maps now, we had a suggestion pool of over 500 maps if I recall correctly.

Maybe more.

darkmiz wrote:

Why is flashlight allowed in free mod

Mr Color wrote:

Maybe more.

buny wrote:

Mr Color wrote:

Actually, there's only going to be AR8-7 Insanes rotating around 140-160bpm. I've seen to it.




there's gonna be all sorts of maps now, we had a suggestion pool of over 500 maps if I recall correctly.

Maybe more.

no love for 100-140

would love the map pool to have a higher difficulty to it, i mean last year was really who could random miss the most to be honest.

all i remember was people saying the maps were too hard in the first round

Niokin wrote:

SPOILER

why does this make me laugh so much

Metro wrote:

Error that shouldn't happen this year: in groupstage match order should be

1v4 & 2v3
1v3 & 2v4
1v2 & 3v4

Last year the last groupstage match was useless in many groups. Top seeds (1&2) should decide who gets 1st place in the last match (assuming they both win their first two matches).

Xplayer1 wrote:

Last year it was streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/osuworldcup

I'm hyped for the greatest championship in all of e-sports. It'll be nice to see the new default skin featured as looking at the old VODs hurts my eyes with the old 300s I haven't seen in so long :3

silmarilen wrote:

all i remember was people saying the maps were too hard in the first round

-GN wrote:

so... uh, what's stopping the dualscreeners to put on FL on their freemod map plays during the great matches and rack up the points needed to win?

-GN wrote:

It'd seriously be better to not allow it, as no one is going to put in the massive effort it is to learn the maps well enough to consistently fc them under the massive pressure, or at least not do a legit run.

buny wrote:

silmarilen wrote:

all i remember was people saying the maps were too hard in the first round

i remember no such thing

silmarilen wrote:

let me refresh your memory
p/1912598

buny wrote:

silmarilen wrote:

let me refresh your memory
p/1912598

wow i really hope he was trolling

though the skill level of the entire community would have increased a lot since last year.

silmarilen wrote:

not just that post, read through the next page(s) aswell

Wishy wrote:

Metro wrote:

XPJ38: http://puu.sh/1lZiy

XPJ38 wrote:

Metro wrote:

XPJ38: http://puu.sh/1lZiy

I still have the spreadsheet, for those interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... sp=sharing

Wishy wrote:

Regarding map selection, we will be picking maps with Darksonic, he and I will judge if the map is on the right range of difficulty. AR 9 DTs will probably come up on semi finals (maybe just finals) because of their difficulty. This being said, you can expect to see some very hard maps getting played on this tournament.

However, we have yet to agree on certain points, some of these being:

a- How much are FCs gonna be worth.
b- How to deal with Hidden maps, what to look for.
c- Base difficulty for DTs, how hard they should be and what is gonna be the "difficulty" of them.

Etc.

Remember that, in any case, the way we are gonna manage the map selection has changed, and we will probably be aiming for challenging maps instead of 8 FC accuracy wars.

So in any case TRUST ARGENTINA!!!!!!!!11!!1

If less than 4 players attend, the maximum time the match will be postponed is 20 minutes.

Loctav wrote:

Wouldn't it be quite obvious?

Loctav wrote:

Put your bias aside. It start's getting boring. I am not interested in your drama.
Memorization is a skill, not a skill you like, but yet a skill. Also this is no "FL SUCKS" thread, so step aside. (Most people won't pick FL anyways, it's not like random people participate here, 95% of the registered people are well-known)

Hernan wrote:

Just wondering when Loctav is gonna learn some manners

Metro wrote:

Mod brackets are very different to flashlight usage lol but it's impossible to reason anything with you.

Loctav wrote:

We can deal with the dramas in case they arise. No need to be afraid of the monster under the bed.

Loctav wrote:

Just because you consider FL as "not worth for tournaments" and a hand-full people agree with you, it's not valid.
Let's more say it like this: I remember tons of people being heavily against mod brackets. Now they are established. Give it a chance. If it sucks, we can remove it later.

Loctav wrote:

Based on the first lines of your post, you didn't understand how freemod works. I stopped reading then since your whole post was based on a false fundament

Thatgooey wrote:

This is the one big osu! community tournament for the year that everyone looks forward to, so I think the community should be able to decide if FL should be allowed. It is always a controversial mod here on the forums, whether any of the claims are true or not. This is supposed to be a fun tournament to bring the world together to play some osu

Loctav wrote:

Based on the first lines of your post, you didn't understand how freemod works. I stopped reading then since your whole post was based on a false fundament

Azer wrote:

Sooo. I'm still waiting on a reply to my PM, Loctav. It's been almost two days now.

fartownik wrote:

Plenty of highly experienced players propose the FL to be removed. Other highly experienced players agree. I wonder what's the point you're trying to make by keeping it there for no matter what. Listen to players for once, they're the base of this game and this tournament is for them, and them only.

Thatgooey wrote:

Even if it is allowed during the tournament, we can still all have an agreement amongst us players not to select the mod. Just because as of right now it is allowed, doesn't mean we have to play it. I know that nobody from our team will select it, even if you could have one person prepare a short map to snipe a free win. I don't think it is fair to the viewers or players to have this mod. It's just not very fun for a tournament setting. Regardless of my or anyone else's opinion on the mod itself, I just don't like it being a one time play in a yearly tournament. It's not fair to the players and fans if a team who is clearly outmatched trolls and picks flashlight free mod on a hard map just for the hell of it. I know a great deal of us wouldn't do this, but sometimes people don't act the same on a stage in the spotlight if they aren't used to it. It just creates opportunity to take away legitimacy and fun from the tournament, that's all I'm saying. Again, this is supposed to be a fun international event for the community to come together and enjoy some friendly competition. I think this is a great thing for osu, and only want to see it succeed and have people talk about it until next year as a positive experience. FL mod being played in this tournament would just add fuel to fires that have been burning for a long time now. I don't want to see that. Again, I have nothing against the mod itself.