Greetings everybody,
as you all know, we will soon open the registrations for the osu!mania World Cup 2014 and therefore the first osu!mania World Cup in this game ever! Considering, that this game mode is way different compared to all other game modes, we adjusted the settings a bit to make it fit more to the needs of a proper mania world cup.
I am well aware that these settings might not favor everyone. Sure I want the entire community to get the opportunity to participate here properly, but this is barely possible considering the spread within the mania players, splitting up into different key amounts.
Why 4k and 7k? 4k and 7k are the most popular keyamounts here and provide the highest amount of beatmaps that we can use. Whereas 5k 6k and 8k are also very cool, the map base and player base is comparably low, as we consider 7K and 4K as the main modes in mania. This might change in future, but for now this is quite obvious and should be treated like that. (Moreover, many of the 5k and 6k players already picked up 4k or 7k here and are advancing quite good in it, so they can still participate if they practise enough!)
This basically means, we have a MWC-4K and a MWC-7k, each with 32 countries that can sign up! Yet you can only sign up for either 4k OR 7k! Not both!
Whenever you consider to participate, please PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE, so we can exclude any misunderstandings. Please be aware that this regulations exist across ALL world cups and will be enforced!
As in every world cup, the maximum team size is the double of the actual competing ones. In a 2v2 tournament, this means that your maximum team size will be 4. This is to ensure that you could possible substitute the entire team with another one in case the "core team" is absent. Please keep in mind that we do not accept rescheduling or scheduling wishes at all, because it is not possible to fulfill every wish of about 256 players participating here.
Moreover, we are accepting map suggestions!. Most importantly is that we only accept submitted beatmaps, even tho they don't need to be ranked. They must be submitted so they get logged in the multiplayer logs appropriately - and to ensure that we can stream then, since the streaming client does only support submitted beatmaps. You can submit map suggestions HERE!
I would also like to mention that I am still looking for a dedicated map selector. Right now, we only have Agka and I don't want to leave him alone here. Keep in mind that selecting beatmaps for a world cup awards you with 1 year of supporter after fulfilling your service successfully. Anyways you will not be able to participate on the MWC as player then! (to keep it fair)
Please drop your opinions about the current concepts here. We can discuss the current setup in this thread and might improve the current given thing to make it more suitable and therefore more awesome for everyone of us. Please understand that not every suggestion can be considered due to the general design of a world cup. Yet we will try to explain you everything and to give you brief reasonings about stuff that goes on. Please keep the discussion in this thread civil and constructive. If somethng is unclear, feel free to ask.
as you all know, we will soon open the registrations for the osu!mania World Cup 2014 and therefore the first osu!mania World Cup in this game ever! Considering, that this game mode is way different compared to all other game modes, we adjusted the settings a bit to make it fit more to the needs of a proper mania world cup.
I am well aware that these settings might not favor everyone. Sure I want the entire community to get the opportunity to participate here properly, but this is barely possible considering the spread within the mania players, splitting up into different key amounts.
Tournament Setup
Because of this, we decided to make the osu!mania World Cup a double-tournament. This means, this world cup consists of two tournaments: 4k and 7k.Why 4k and 7k? 4k and 7k are the most popular keyamounts here and provide the highest amount of beatmaps that we can use. Whereas 5k 6k and 8k are also very cool, the map base and player base is comparably low, as we consider 7K and 4K as the main modes in mania. This might change in future, but for now this is quite obvious and should be treated like that. (Moreover, many of the 5k and 6k players already picked up 4k or 7k here and are advancing quite good in it, so they can still participate if they practise enough!)
This basically means, we have a MWC-4K and a MWC-7k, each with 32 countries that can sign up! Yet you can only sign up for either 4k OR 7k! Not both!
Whenever you consider to participate, please PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE, so we can exclude any misunderstandings. Please be aware that this regulations exist across ALL world cups and will be enforced!
Team Setup
Furthermore, the MWC will be a 2v2 tournament. Even if mania is one of the bigger communities we have here, 2v2 seems the most appropriate considering that we actually accept 64 instead of 32 teams - at the end of the day, we will have as much individual players participating as in the osu! World Cup.As in every world cup, the maximum team size is the double of the actual competing ones. In a 2v2 tournament, this means that your maximum team size will be 4. This is to ensure that you could possible substitute the entire team with another one in case the "core team" is absent. Please keep in mind that we do not accept rescheduling or scheduling wishes at all, because it is not possible to fulfill every wish of about 256 players participating here.
Tournament Schedule
As of the tournament schedule: First, we will start off with the group stage of the 7k bracket on one entire weekend, then the 4k group stage on the upfollowing one. The knock-out stages (RO16, etc.) of both brackets will happen on the same weekends after the groupstages, whereas we put 7k brackets on Saturdays and the 4k brackets on Sunday or vica versa - we do not mix them up and want to keep them seperated!Mappools
About the mappools: We all know that playing modes is not of such a popular gain here in o!m, therefore we decided to pull off a different mappool structure - we will only have a FreeMod and a DoubleTime bracket (and a single tiebreaker). 7k and 4k will have seperated mappools for sure. Because we have less brackets, the mappools in total size will also be smaller but still enough to choose of. With only having FreeMod, the rule of "at least 1 player must play with at least one mode per team" will not be active. Pretty much, every map apart of DoubleTime is FreeMod and everyone can play with whatever mode they want, if they want.Moreover, we are accepting map suggestions!. Most importantly is that we only accept submitted beatmaps, even tho they don't need to be ranked. They must be submitted so they get logged in the multiplayer logs appropriately - and to ensure that we can stream then, since the streaming client does only support submitted beatmaps. You can submit map suggestions HERE!
I would also like to mention that I am still looking for a dedicated map selector. Right now, we only have Agka and I don't want to leave him alone here. Keep in mind that selecting beatmaps for a world cup awards you with 1 year of supporter after fulfilling your service successfully. Anyways you will not be able to participate on the MWC as player then! (to keep it fair)
Please drop your opinions about the current concepts here. We can discuss the current setup in this thread and might improve the current given thing to make it more suitable and therefore more awesome for everyone of us. Please understand that not every suggestion can be considered due to the general design of a world cup. Yet we will try to explain you everything and to give you brief reasonings about stuff that goes on. Please keep the discussion in this thread civil and constructive. If somethng is unclear, feel free to ask.
