Daikyi wrote:

I voted for myself because I'm a pile of garbaje

I don't care that i'm not a participant. I had to vote for you too because you're truly garbjej

bad

next week*

bad

*waiting for the VOD's of the last matches holy!*

juankristal wrote:

*waiting for the VOD's of the last matches holy!*

G H O S T T A P P I N G

juankristal wrote:

*waiting for the VOD's of the last matches holy!*

I'm glad that I drank coffee at 4am for this.

I'm gonna be difficult again and mention that next weekend, I can only play Saturday. Also, until further notice, I can only do Sunday the weekend after.

yipyapyop wrote:

I'm gonna be difficult again and mention that next weekend, I can only play Saturday. Also, until further notice, I can only do Sunday the weekend after.

Stop having a life tbh

yip pls my sat schedule is :c

ROUND OF 16
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DUGL ... sp=sharing

Yaju - DEBSTEP! (ecafree2) [4K MX] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/779717&m=3
CELLON. - Madpakke ([ C r a c k ]) [4K Another] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/798265
Lite Show Magic - TRICKl4SH 220 (MeowPaz) [victorica's ExTrA] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/813392&m=3
sakuzyo - Ikusakyou Ranbou (Kreator014) [_UJ's IN] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/824005
Shiro Sagisu - Quatre Mains (a quatre mains) =3EM16= (Fullerene-) [pour quatre cles] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/681797
HHHxMMxST - Oboro (ExUsagi) [Insanity] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/511089
Electronic Boutique - Miles (Ryu Sei) [Shiki's SC] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/437726
Senya - Yureru Koi wa Nami no Gotoku LN Master (Ez2dj_7144) [Normal] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/785024
Helblinde - Rewrite Nightmare (Jepetski) [Experiment] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/719525
SOUND HOLIC Vs. T.Kakuta feat. YURiCa - TOXIC VIBRATION (extend ver.) [MX] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/790555
gmtn. (witch's slave) - furioso melodia (Harbyter) [4K furioso maratona] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/725897

Senya - Yureru Koi wa Nami no Gotoku LN Master (Ez2dj_7144) [Normal] It made it! Kreygasm

bad

MAP POOL
ROUND OF 8 [QUARTER-FINALS] MAP POOL - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DUGL ... sp=sharing

Rairyu - ra'am (Zan -) [4K Another] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/786390
Getty vs. DJ DiA - Ops:Code-Rapture- (Fresh Chicken) [Pira's GRAVITY] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/784842
goreshit - looming shadow of a tree gone (Shoegazer) [Catatonia] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/792874
sasakure.uk - the girl who ate the aurora (-Tim-) [Another] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/769730
BanYa Remixed by DM Ashura - Ignis Fatuus (AncuL) [MX] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/459565
Nobuo Uematsu - Liberi Fatali (Halogen-) [Insane] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/816901
DJ'TEKINA//SOMETHING feat. Yoshi Ikuzo - Ora Tokyosa ikuda Remix (ALEFY) [EXH] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/824922
dj REIMU meets DJ MARISA - Elemental Shooting (Ryu Sei) [Lunatic] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/680943
Mitchie M feat. Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka - AiDee (MasterSonic10) [SC] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/676215
Helblinde - Memoria Reborn (Fullerene-) [Reborn] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/777351
Pia-no-jaC - Paradiso (Scintill) [Scintill's Challenge] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/716194

For both Tidek and adrien062 we are aware of an error on you times asigned and we are working on it. The other schedules should be fine.

I believe the match between Tidek and adrien062 will be scheduled to Saturday 9 of April at 11:30 UTC but yet not confirmed.


you can #blamejuan for that

juankristal wrote:

For both Tidek and adrien062 we are aware of an error on you times asigned and we are working on it. The other schedules should be fine.

I believe the match between Tidek and adrien062 will be scheduled to Saturday 9 of April at 11:30 UTC but yet not confirmed.


you can #blamejuan for that

I can confirm that placement; I will send out private messages to them both.

and no, not just blaming you -- I didn't spot it either, hahaha.

SEMI-FINALS MAP POOL
MAPPOOL DOWNLOAD: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8DUG ... m1oX0RUU2M

Rohi - Kakuzetsu Thanatos (_underjoy) [Isolation] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/785580
xi - Freedom Dive (tpz Overcute Remix) (Shoegazer) [Ayumu] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/812585
Igorrr - Unpleasant Sonata (Jepetski) [Almost Pleasant Sonata] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/736858
LeaF - Evanescent (Fullerene-) [Retaliat] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/476565
Terminal11 - Raging Warpath Dinner Piano (Valedict) [Fracture] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/939739
The Flashbulb - The Bridgeport Run (Chrubble) [Escape] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/880529
t+pazolite - Oshama Scramble! (Shirou) [Nyan~] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/815040
M2U & Nicode feat. Guriri and Lucy - Myosotis (sankansuki) [Sonic's 4K Lv.11] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/718031
Renard - Banned Forever (ExUsagi) [LEGEND] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/723327
DJ Sharpnel - Pacific Girls (Fullerene-) [IcyWorld] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/603255
Neru - Ningen Shikkaku (puxtu) [Tidek's 4K SHD] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/553623
Chroma - sink to the deep sea world (Lein-) [abyss] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/781930
Camellia - PLANET//SHAPER (Evening) [did I say I love you? (I'm sorry, )] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/823842

we still in this boiz

oh my, my map!

Just a reminder that the mappool showcase will start pretty early today, it would be at 16:00 UTC if things go as they should.

FINALS (WEEK 1) MAP POOL
MAPPOOL DOWNLOAD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DUGL ... ozRE0/view

Camellia - dreamless wanderer (Fullerene-) [Ethereal Shift] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/714878
M - Synthesized Fortress (Valedict) [Invincible Fortress] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/931087
The Ghost of 3.13 - Path to Nowhere (Shoegazer) [Stalemate] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/913882
antiPLUR - Speed of Link (Shoegazer) [Luminous] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/756652
LeaF - I (Tidek) [Limbo] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/921164
Interrobang Pie x Sci - Cerebral Meltdown (Pope Gadget) [PonyIsland.exe] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/911559
Camellia - crystallized (Evening) [__listen.\] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/944128
ETIA. - Firestorm (PiraTom) [intel's OVERFLNOW] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/804930
P*Light - Gekkou Ranbu (Gravity Ver.) (PiraTom) [LNAVITY] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/941225
kemu - Ikasama Life Game ([-Seiryuu-]) [[1]] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/949500
Morimori Atsushi + Verdammt - Le Fruit Defendu (MasterSonic10) [GRAVITY Lv.16] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/781900
Nanahoshi Kangengakudan - Meikaruza (Evening) [Fiesta] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/919004
DJ Sharpnel - WE LUV LAMA (bbu2) [AAA] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/475592
Fleshgod Apocalypse - The Hypocrisy (Phil) [Torment] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/865148
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - Uta (Evening) [Bloody Hopeful Romantic] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/946618

Note that this is NOT the last mappool that will be released - there will be a mappool for the Grand Finals next week.

Hey, you beat me to it!

Man... the magnitude of what our tournament staff has done from top to bottom is starting to hit me - we're on finals now... it's almost over. This is something that I talked about on stream, but... it's incredibly bitter-sweet. I'm extremely happy with the fact that this is nearly over, and that I can resume my normal activities on the weekend again, but on the flip side... as much as I hated certain parts of this, I think I'm gonna miss the overall experience. My only hope is that someone can come along and make another mania tournament just like this one, and I mean that in a very encouraging way -- this tournament was not perfect... far from it, rather. But, I think it's been run sufficiently enough to where I can at least be proud of the fact that I helped coordinate it.

I most certainly couldn't have done it without the team that I have either. Thank you guys.

I've put up a new poll in the thread since we're getting quite close to closing out the tournament. I am interested in responses; thanks everyone.

Halogen- wrote:

I've put up a new poll in the thread since we're getting quite close to closing out the tournament. I am interested in responses; thanks everyone.

You sure you did a new pool instead of just changing values?

i'm dumb :3

So, apparently osu! does not want me to make a properly designed poll -- instead, I'll ask in the thread and hope that I can get some legitimate responses:

Did you enjoy the tournament? If not, why?

Even tho I didn't play in the tournament I still found it really enjoyable as a spectator.

Honestly, yes
Why? Because it's a battlefield that is fun for every osu!mania player, regardless of their skill.
It's a chance for people to learn from each other's experience, and most importantly, to have fun and make friends.
Also, you get stream time, so it's top kek stuff.

Yeah, I really enjoyed playing in this tourney.
It was such a nice experience being able to compete against other players in such a nice and friendly environment, and meeting/making new friends along the way
I had a bunch of fun suffering through the mappools participating in this tourney, I'm still pretty happy for how far I managed to get into the brackets haha.

Huge thanks for making this all possible AJ, and to everyone on the tournament staff. The tourney was super fun, and I'm very glad to have joined.
Sad to see it coming to an end, but still very bittersweet.

Stay fresh, and have a good one.

This tournament couldnt be that good without chloroplast skin. (Rank it pls)

Tidek wrote:

This tournament couldnt be that good without chloroplast skin. (Rank it pls)

Great and enjoyable, as a player and as spectator !
would sign up again

soft 2 when

Tidek wrote:

This tournament couldnt be that good without chloroplast skin. (Rank it pls)

FrenzyLi was actually helping me with hitsounding this, so it's a very viable possibility - although, I get this feeling that I will go from meme status to hated in about two seconds flat, lmfao.

I've had a blast doing both playing and commentating through the majority of the tournament, hopefully i wasn't too cringey of a commentator on stream lol

it's been a while since i've been in a real tournament, and even before, most of them were FFR tourneys so not even 'live' ones. there was the 1 mp ffr tourney I participated in, but lag attack and rip. This was a superb experience, and was interesting to see myself personally react under stress while playing rhythm games (apparantly accuracy shoots through the roof)

had lots of fun, felt like i grew in many ways other than just 4k skill.

I'll definitely love having my weekends back though lmfao

Daikyi wrote:

I'll definitely love having my weekends back though lmfao

no doubt, I'll certainly enjoy the full weekend time again.

Thank you guys for your responses; it feels good to know that this has been a generally positive experience.

Little late but I have to say that I absolutely loved playing in this tournament. Although I got absolutely rekt by Chrubble in the ro128 xD

I loved watching, the charts in the mappool both looked and sounded beautiful and fit the tournament setting. Too bad you won't be hosting another one, maybe someone will take over who will keep it up just as well.

Halogen- is a dumb and forgot to post the mappool.

FINALS [WEEK 2] MAPPOOL - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DUGL ... 21vX1RWVWc

YZYX - Powerflux (GammaBlaster) [Challenge] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/850891
Born of Osiris - Machine (THE ALGORITHM REMIX) (_underjoy) [OMNIPOTENT] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/872197
Suguro - Sun Valley (K2 Remix) (Guilhermeziat) [le 8-bit] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/950875
Rings Of Saturn - Senseless Massacre (XeoStyle) [ayylmaocore] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/945069
litmus - iterated (edit) (Evening) [jack of all trades] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/960114
Function Phantom - Neuronecia (dionzz99) [Inconsistent Rhythm] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/940002
D.B.O.Y.D x Kommisar - Interstellar Retribution (MasterSonic10) [Disbelief] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/823799
Shiraishi - True Millennium Queen (-Kamikaze-) [True LN Master] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/950209
2TORI - Zephyranthes (Shoegazer) [Lily] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/890937
ZUN - Voyage 1970 (Halogen-) [Hourai Elixir] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/961223
Traktion - Gid V (Hydria) [Hydria's Noodle Ecstasy] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/959208
Wagakki Band - Tengaku (Evening) [Heaven] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/892596
Coakira - No Running!!! (Quick Draw) [Zen's Infinite Fury] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/743184
Camellia - Fastest Crash (Shoegazer) [Paroxysm] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/924286
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Kingborn (Xcaliboor) [Excoriation] - https://osu.ppy.sh/b/871476

This is the last mappool of the tournament. Thank you to everyone who have participated in the tournament, the stream and in the backstage works of the tourney.

This tourney was really fun to watxh ^^ welldone AJ

I wanted to say thanks to Halogen and all members of the staff for hard worked on this tournament.

I met lots of awesome players, even if there was some troll maps, the mappool was really fun and good to play.

Thas was without a doubt the best unofficial tournament I have played.

Thanks all <3

I'm just going to leave something here for those who don't know yet.

Urusai did not show for the grand final between him and cobo-. Currently, this means that cobo- has the win by default but we are not certain as to whether or not there will be a rescheduling (although it looks doubtful).

Anyway, thanks to everyone for participating in the tournament and watching the tournament. It's sad to see it end but it was a great experience to be part of it. I had a lot of fun reffing for so many matches and even doing some commentary. I'm glad that i got to be a part of this \:D/.

Congratulations to cobo-, Urusai and bumpinho for making it to the top 3 in the tournament. Hopefully we will get to see you all again if the tournament returns.

Edit: I already talked to some of the people in the staff, and told them the reasons why i didn't show up, i'm sorry if i disappointed anyone of the people that supported me.

Anyways, i want to say thanks to Halogen for making this tournament, with no doubts this was the best tournament i have ever been, i really liked the experience to play in a tournament like this, even though at the beginning i complained a lot for the mappool (because i didn't like LNs and SVs maps xD) i finished this liking them, or at least playing them "decently", and thanks for all your support too. <3

Thanks to all the staff members that did a really good job, and also thanks to those who played against me, it was for you that i got my motivation back to play mania 4k, after a few matches i realized that i still like this game, i told most of you that i would probably quit after this tournament due to no motivation, but after the match i had against lim38 (yeah, it was you xD) i started thinking about playing this game seriously again, and was what i did untill the end of this.

Special thanks for those who supported me in every match, thanks a lot guys! i never expected that much support haha, and also...

Juankristal, que me viene apoyando desde hace mucho, muchas gracias man, creo que desde que entré en tu torneo hispano que mi experiencia acá ha sido genial, sin lugar a dudas (y como lo he dicho muchas veces anteriormente) eres el mejor caster de latinoamérica, has sabido llevar esto muy lejos y lo has hecho de una manera increíble, gran amigo y alguien a quien respeto y admiro mucho, te vuelvo a agradecer por todo el apoyo que me has dado. <3

PS: i just read what Konner posted, if a reschedule happens it would be really good, if not it's okay, i'm already happy of all the effort you guys put to make me play on every match i had issues with the schedule.

So, I kinda kept myself away from the tournament thread and really from everyone with regards to talking about this tournament, because the initial feelings of the tournament result were actually emotionally overwhelming. I was legitimately upset as to how this went out. For the record, I've sent out a message to both Urusai and Cobo- about their full availability in the event of me potentially being able to schedule this for next weekend - that's why I've not really taken the time to make any sort of conclusion post yet. I'm still going to hold off on that for just a bit, because I feel like the match between Urusai/Cobo- is one that just needs to happen - it's one that we all deserve to see.

As much as I want the tournament to be over so that I don't have to worry about this stuff, I don't want the tournament to end this way. Not including qualifiers, there were 158 matches scheduled to occur in this tournament, and when you consider that the point of a tournament/competition like this is to isolate the best of the best for a hyper-competitive showdown, having a win by default on match 158 out of 158 is criminal.

Alright guys - it's time that bury the hatchet with regards to this tournament; the scheduling of it has been my literal nemesis for the final round, and it unfortunately seems like the final result will be Cobo- winning the tournament by default. This is not the tournament ending that I wanted, and it's not the one that any of us deserve. It's going to especially hurt uploading the VODs to the YouTube and realizing that there will literally be no Grand Finals match to showcase for this tournament -- all of those matches scheduled intending on culminating in a final showdown and well, it's never going to happen. It's really sad for me to think about honestly, and despite there likely being no truth in this (and this just being an emotional response), it makes me feel strongly like this tournament was a failure. It makes me feel like the goal that I set out to do - to host this event, to get everyone excited and playing actively, to narrow the field down to two incredibly well rounded mania players to represent what this tournament was about, was never attained. I can't even look at the Voyage 1970 map that I made specifically for the grand finals stage of this tournament without being upset, because it never even had the chance of being played in a competitive light. I feel horrible for all of the people that spectated this tournament with the expectation of it having a bang of a finish. I especially feel terrible for Pope Gadget in this whole situation, who got knocked out by w1sp, only to have him not show up in the match against Urusai - a Pope Gadget/Urusai battle in that position would have been a hell of a battle, and in retrospect, I am a bit angry at myself for not giving Pope Gadget the chance to play in that match and represent the loser's bracket finals in the way that he could have. It gives me an idea for an additional ruleset in the event of a player getting eliminated and the winner of the match no-showing their next one.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way, I will say - it has been an absolutely incredible journey. I started this with very little experience and legitimately had no idea what I was getting into; what seemed to be a great idea in concept turned out to be one of the biggest trials of my patience and time that I have -ever- experienced; this tournament took away 11 weekends from me, and some of those weekends, I still tried to make do the best I could around scheduling (I had two exams on Saturdays of matches, it was interesting going to exam and then getting home to start stuff immediately, lol). Planning out this tournament was an absolute nightmare at first, but I managed to get my bearings a bit later on and got much more confident in handling organization when things got busy. I definitely got a bit lazier near the end, I am willing to admit that I was less than diligent in the last three rounds of the tournament, but most of you guys wouldn't have seen that - the only ones who saw that were staff. I wanted to make sure that users at least had a decent experience objectively, between getting invitations for rooms earlier than start times, having highly communicative referees, and an enjoyable commentary staff (Shoegazer roasts aside [p.s. i'm totally willing to make a compilation of that if he allows me to, lol] ). I've gotten lots of feedback from players, and I will say that there were certainly times where the feedback was negative to the point where I basically wanted nothing to do with the tournament, but the great support system of players and staff that I had made it worth while to keep going.

I'll definitely take the time to thank my tournament staff here:

- Azlynn - for putting up with our lives being interrupted by this thing for 11 weeks and offering to help whenever it was absolutely needed, despite having other obligations and not really having the biggest of interest in the idea of this tournament in general. I love you. <3

- juankristal - you are seriously a fucking god among men. I initially had you in as a back-up commentator and had you in place more for refereeing; let me tell you something, I was a complete moron for not moving you to where you ended up near the end of the tournament. You saved my ass big time on scheduling in the first two rounds of the tournament, and definitely gave me the confidence I needed to help with administrating staff, timing, and players in this tournament. I know that after the round of 64, I found myself a lot more comfortable and was able to handle things myself after not being able to do it the first time, and I definitely owe that to you. You were a goddamn trooper and basically stepped into the commentating, refereeing, or staffing roles whenever it was needed, and that's why I moved you up to a tournament coordinator midway through - giving you an attribution less than that was nothing short of an insult. You helped an incredible amount on logistics and made sure the best that you could that everything stood in line.

- -Kamikaze- - my inseparable goddamn partner in crime. At the start of this tournament, we really hadn't had -that- much contact and chit-chat with one another, but I knew over the little bit that I had seen, that you would be a good map selector. Holy shit, little did I know the fun we'd have in the process. It was an absolute blast strategizing on how we'd unleash hell on players while still being as minimally fair as we could, and I think that SOFT's unorthodox/stand-out map choices had a lot to do with the fact that we were able to really establish a great synergy. You and I are definitely a great fit when it comes to maps and we seem to know exactly what players will have to practice in order to improve (and this doesn't quite include the SV bullshit we threw in for additional fun).

- -Konner- - just a fantastic job overall in the process of refereeing, and you proved to be an absolute savior earlier on in the tournament as an additional streamer. This tournament likely would not have done as well earlier on without your commitment to streaming, even when it was on off hours. Your overall experience as a referee helped to make things a lot easier, and I learned a bit about managing rooms in and out of the client because of you. MIT was incredibly lucky to have you as a committed staff member before, and when I saw how much effort you'd put into that tournament, there was no way I was going to let someone like yourself just sit by.

- Steins - I'm also really thankful to have had you in this process as well. There were a few times where you'd apologized to me about issues you had in refereeing, but I don't ever feel like you needed to. You were always very proactive, asking me when schedules were and saying that you'd be able to dedicate a large amount of time; this is not something that I expect people to just largely go out of their way and commit time to. Like -Konner-, MIT was very lucky to have you as a committed staff member and when I'd seen the amount of time you'd given to that previous tournament without much complaint, I knew that you'd be a viable member for the core staff.

- Hydria - You were someone who was added onto the staff a bit later, and you were also another one that I am glad that I added. Your previous experience in tournaments basically made it so that I didn't really have to explain much of anything - you just hopped on, did your thing, caused a few win by defaults thanks for that and you were done.

- Daikyi, Gazelle, Arf - the voices of SOFT, right here. I know that Arf came a bit later, but he came in with a lot of intent to work, and never really had any issues with scheduling - fantastic reliability on his part. Daikyi/Gazelle - you guys put a ton of time into doing this, weekend after weekend, and you guys always seemed to make sure that users were engaged in what you were talking about. Between the boats, the warnings of ghost-tapping, and all of the crazy matches that were separated by three digit points (or two because Rewrite Nightmare, thanks for that one too Daikyi :p), at least one of you were there to talk about it. It wouldn't have been nearly as memorable without you guys for sure.

- Shoegazer - You did a really good job of being a technical commentator for the event, and were the one who usually gave insight about the players in question; for many matches, and even the showcases, you sought to make sure that you were delivering accurate information about the players and/or content in question, and that commitment to making sure that the information you deliver is correct is commendable. You were also very helpful when I got a bit strained on time in the later rounds, assisting in the referee helper spreadsheets and adding all sorts of other cool statistical information that otherwise would not have been exposed. Additionally, you gave some good insight into the last two pools of the tournament, and I appreciate that a ton.

- XeoStyle - You were brand new to refereeing at the start of this tournament, but I was recommended to take a look at you by someone else, and I will say that I'm glad that I did. You helped come through in a pinch when match times were a bit outlying a few times and saved what would have been some headaches from having to do multiple things at once.

- Smoothie World - You really didn't get much time to do much of anything because of timing with personal events, but you did manage to help on a few matches when I really needed someone to fill a time; you being on the same time zone allowed me to get things done pretty easily. I wish you'd have been around a bit more near the end to experience what high-level mania play is like, considering your reactions from the round of 128 pool, but it wasn't meant to be.

- EtienneXC - you're a pain in my ass. You got sick and ended up eliminated from my tournament, and then went on to tear your hamstring, I mean - who fucking does that? I'm kidding, aha. You did have a short time in commentating during the qualifiers, which was incredibly hectic, but you managed to at least give your (minor) contribution. Next time, don't be such a bitch. :p

I am also really thankful to have had so much attention pointed in the direction of this tournament. Getting featured on osu!weekly was great. I'm also additionally happy to see a few other people who consult me about questions regarding their tournament, because it does show that I managed to at least stick to my word and make something worthwhile like I said I'd do all the way back in December. After experiencing a rather unpleasant tournament experience as a player, I wanted to make sure that the mania community (or a subset of it) at least got something they deserved. My only regret is not getting more in the way of prizes - though to be fair, with how this tournament ended, it was probably for the best that I didn't anyway. I'm also glad to see someone working on another tournament that plans on engaging the entire community (referring to 2016 HARD; p.s. everyone should sign up for it when the actual tournament thread goes up, I'm going to as well :3) rather than just the 4k community.

As I've said before, I have a ton of videos sitting on my desktop computer; it recently just had Sony Vegas installed to it, so I will be using that to cut the longer streams up into separated matches for easier findings. That should be happening in the coming weeks, but I will do this at a more leisurely time; I suppose that's something to look to.

I'll be finalizing this tournament by sending off the results to tournament staff, so that the top 3 can receive their supporter status. Cobo-, Urusai, and bumpinho will receive 6, 4, and 2 months of supporter for their efforts in this tournament. Again, it seems like a bit of an underwhelming prize, but honestly - I think it will do for this tournament, and something is certainly better than nothing.

If you guys have any sort of other questions about this that you'd like to ask me, feel free to do it in here. I'll still be poking in this thread a bit because it's likely that I will post links to videos over the next little bit.

EDIT: fixed, shut up _underjoy :p

Despite everything I am so glad about all this tourney and I can tell this was my best experience when it comes to tourneys organization by far.

And I end up meeting so much people... I feel really good for all this, seriously.

Thanks for everything Halogen- and all the staff members of the SOFT. We all did a really great thing over here.

Halogen- wrote:

it makes me feel strongly like this tournament was a failure

you just held one of the largest tournaments outside of the world cups that i know of and possible one of the best osu!mania tournaments to date. while it is a shame that the grand finals never occurred, don't let that be the thing that makes this tournament a failure. i'm actually kinda sad i missed most of this actually and i really hope you have it in you for another one of this, or at the very least something similar.

So, we're done. Enjoyed the experience as a whole; as both a commentator and an endgame mappool selector. Shame that it ended in undramatic fashion, but I don't think one match is really going to detract from the overall experience for anyone in or watching the tournament.

Very big thanks to Halogen- of course, for giving me the opportunity to just mess around in the commentary team and just allow me to test waters a little bit and see how I'd do in commentary. While I ended up commentating pretty late and had to stay up a lot later than I wanted to most of the time, I did enjoy most of the experience. Thanks to the other commentators too for pairing up with me and dealing with my bullshit too - Halogen, juankristal, Daikyi, Gazelle, Konner, Arf, etc. I probably won't be commentating for MWC (and probably other tournaments in general) for various reasons (time commitment is probably the biggest one), but regardless, commentating for SOFT was a nice experience and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you in the pedestral that is MWC commentary in the future.

Thanks to you guys (the participants and the viewers) too, really nice to see such an active community of players and spectators just rooting for their favourite players and just being active in the chat in general. Talking to you guys through commentary was easily the most enjoyable thing in commentary for me, so it was really nice that you guys had so many things to ask and so many things to just contribute in general. I would also like to apologise for people that I might have offended through my commentary - I did get a little out of hand at points and I probably won't be doing "roasting" sessions ever if I ever commentate again. I'll probably stick with technical commentary, which is probably my forte.

That being said, special thanks to Kamikaze for being my punching bag for roasting. I never really intended to showing a more crude flavour to my commentary but you gave me a pretty good opportunity to do it. You're a true bro and I love you. <3

Anyway, I wanted to post some statistics from the tournament as a whole, but there's a lot of things to actually talk about so I think I'll just post the spreadsheets used for refereeing for you guys to look at.

MOST BANNED
Round of 128: Love Maker (67.35% - 33/49)
Round of 64: Senretsu no ryu (47.83% - 11/23)
Round of 32: BRYNHILDR IN THE DARKNESS (69.23% - 9/13)
Round of 16: Miles (69.23% - 9/13)
Round of 8: Ignus Fatuus (70.00% - 7/10)
Semi-Finals: Evanescent (71.43% - 5/7)

MOST PICKED
Round of 128: Atropos (75.51% - 37/49)
Round of 64: F.K.S. (86.96% - 20/23)
Round of 32: Otsukimi Recital / Figue Folle (92.31% - 12/13)
Round of 16: Madpakke / Ikusakyou Ranbu (92.31% - 12/13)
Round of 8: looming shadow of a tree long gone / Elemental Shooting (80.00% / 8/10)
Semi-Finals: The Bridgeport Run (100.00% - 7/7)

HIGHEST SCORES
Round of 128: (I actually didn't make this yet, but I could make this if requested.)
Round of 64: Cobo- / 999,248 (F.K.S.)
Round of 32: Urusai / 998,236 (Asymmetry)
Round of 16: Devilchilly / 998,651 (TOXIC VIBRATION)
Round of 8: Devilchilly / 998,120 (ra'am)
Semi-Finals: Pope Gadget / 996,949 (Freedom Dive (tpz Overcute Remix))

REFEREE HELPERS
Round of 128
Round of 64
Round of 32
Round of 16
Round of 8
Semi-Finals

Don't really have the finals/grand finals spreadsheets with me, but I think Halogen- should be able to find them. Enjoy your number crunching stat nerds.

Well, SOFT is over.

My english is bad, so i won't talk to much about this tournament.

I want say first; thanks to AJ for this awesome tournament.

Second: thanks to other members of staff, i had alot of funny times with you.

Third: thanks to players, for your participation and make it more fun.

I'm a bit distressed that the final result ended up being inconclusive, but like the old cliche goes, it's the journey not the destination that counts. This was one of the best organized tourneys I've ever had the pleasure (and man, it was a pleasure) to be a part of. I've had a run-in or two with tourneys that have loads of participants (2 days back to back 10 hours 10 people refereeing each day, 15 hours of casting in a row the weekend after, man OCT was a clusterfest ) but this one really stood out to me from just about every perspective. It had a highly motivated organizational crew, extremely knowledgeable casting team (excluding myself of course, these guys are friggin veterans at this VSRG business) and there was none of the lackadaisical lethargy that typically sets in once the staff realizes how much of a drag the work can be. Results aside, anyone who has ever tried to organize an osu! tournament or any sort of tournament knows just how painstaking the task is, and how easy it is to drop quality. But that compromise really didn't have to be made here, that's just how well everyone did their respective jobs - Halogen is a force to be reckoned with, the perfect mix of stern and reasonable, and he's really said it all about what everyone else did up there. For o!m as a game mode, with all its struggles and critics, this tournament was, for me, the perfect showcase of just how good the plucky mode can truly be, if you give it a chance. The maps were the best possible mix of styles for the melting pot of VSRG madness that o!m is, the commentary drew from the decade of layers that other games have built, and the presentation overall was professional enough, fun enough, and just about brazen enough to give the stuffiest of elitists a pause. And there's nothing mania needs more than that.

I wish I'd been able to be more available and catch more matches than I did, my technical difficulties made AJ step in more times than I can be proud of, and I can't really say I'm happy about not being able to deliver and make good on my word the last two/three weeks or so, but I don't think I'll be forgetting this experience anytime soon, I can blame juan for getting me into this project, and for once, that's a good thing
Big thanks to all the staff I did interact with during my relatively shorter time here, Halogen of course, goes without saying, as a caster/scheduler/general cool dude he's like a machine of awesomeness, juan for being the front and center man (fucking legend this guy is), Shoegazer for sounding so smart that I barely had to do any work, Daikyi for being funny so that my horrible sense of humor didn't bore twitch chat to death, Gazelle for taking my little quirks in stride and being real easy to cast with (and that's rare on a first run). Special thanks to Kamikaze (and Halogen of course) for the mappool, I didn't have a lot of these maps and it really opened my eyes to some of the charts that are out there if you look hard enough. (Where has Run Run Run been all my life, holy crap)

As a final note, maybe it didn't end the way anyone would have expected or liked, but this definitely wasn't a failure, and I think just about everyone who watched, played, or worked on this project would wholeheartedly agree with that. It's not easy to hold an event like this for a historically unpleasable fanbase (:P) but if there was ever anything that got close to perfection, well. I felt I had to toss my two cents here, even if I wasn't as completely immersed as I should have been.

tl;dr - Fucking amazing job all round.

Supporter tags have been distributed to the winners.

- Cobo- received 6 months, Urusai received 4 months, bumpinho received 2 months.

already said this on the YT video, but thanks for doing that - it really means a lot to see that people actually seem to like some stuff that I make, even when I'm trying to be different or stand out from the norm

anyway, the reason i'm posting in here is to let you guys know that i've not forgotten about the VODs: i'm actually just going to upload the files as they are to YouTube, and then additionally upload them to a MEGA in the event that videos do not work because of copyright/audio issues so that they can be downloaded and whatnot - i'm gonna basically number the files in their respective rounds and then have a text document that indicates all of the matches so that you guys can find the matches of yourself

in other news, i apparently somehow don't have any of the stuff for the round of 64, not sure how that ended up happening but it is what it is, just another downfall of the tournament that i'm gonna live with - i do have everything else

but yeah, thank you to everyone for being a part of this tournament and helping me get through the mess at the end here, and yeah

EDIT: round of 32 videos have been uploaded to the YouTube channel