Match Results



From the given exhibit, we see that the higher seeded players are pretty much in total dominance of the round. With a good amount of sweeps and 4-1's but the most surprising result is the Seed 5 (JztCallMeRon) vs Seed 12 (CronoRock27) match. Prior to the round, these two are the qualifying team mates, and managed to create really consistent scores leading to this round. JztCallMeRon called most of the accuracy picks and took advantage of a better rainbow 300 ratio on a good number of charts. CronoRock27's G-SYMPHONiCORE pick turned the tables and scored on two straight notecharts before JztCallMeRon broke his streak and eventually winning his match, 4-2.

Looking forward to the Quarterfinals Match-ups, we'll be seeing closer matches this time especially on the matches that involves people who are closely seeded, who knows, we might also see a few upsets.

You can keep track of the brackets on this link.

Picks and Bans



Most Picked Notechart: S-C-U feat. Qrispy Joybox - anemone (Starry-) [Special]

Of course, who'd never pick this on a match. Although this chart has pretty much enough stuff to make you choke, but a good amount of players can pretty much score on this really great and it all comes down to how the players handle themselves. Talk about confidence.

Most Banned Notechart: Shawn Wasabi - Marble Soda (Lenfried-) [test]

This one has everything you don't want to trip on. If you happen to do something a bit unpleasant somewhere in this chart, whether you released one of the LN's too early or you missed on the SV section, say goodbye to one point. This might be the reason why this is banned frequently.

Notable Stuff:
Cranky - La Campanella : Nu Rave (nowsmart) [4K MX] (4 bans and NOT EVEN A SINGLE PICK)
Yooh - Electronic Sound Lab (XeoStyle) [MX] (4 bans)

Quarterfinals Mappool

1. Touyama Nao & Hanazawa Kana - Taisetsu no Tsukurikata (Asterisk remix) (N0thingSpecial) [Muu's MX]
2. Orangestar - Asu no Yozora Shoukaihan (dakemoto) [Insane]
3. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Halogen-) [Insane]
4. gmtn. (witch's slave) - furioso melodia (Harbyter) [4K furioso maratona]
5. Lite Show Magic - TRICKL4SH 220 (MeowPaz) [victorica's ExTrA]
6. ginhika - EOS ([A v a l o n]) [Shana's DayBreak]
7. GReeeeN - Shinobi (ExUsagi) [4K Insanity]
8. Jin ft. MARiA from GARNiDELiA - daze (short ver.) (Takane6) [Shiki's SC]
9. MiddleIsland - Achromat (iJinjin) [Fullerene's 4K Another]
10. ETIA. - Claiomh Solais (-SoraGami-) [4K Insane]
11. ginkiha - eastward (Rizqy) [Another]
12. lapix - NEO GRAVITY (Aras25) [Lenfried's INFINITE]
13. Cardboard Box - Infernoplextratone (pikechu) [Challenge]
14. Camellia - Chirality (Luthfeh) [I]

TIEBREAKER

1. KotoriP - Black Out The Alternative (Pope Gadget) [The Latter]

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Match Results



Similar to last week, the stronger players tend to dominate their match-up against their opponent, with four of the six matches being sweeps and only two matches with a 5-1. Something you might want to point out is that even for the close seeded matches, namely, the Seed 13 (-Messenger-) vs Seed 12 (CronoRock27) match on the loser's bracket, and the Seed 4 (scissorsf) vs Seed 5 (JztCallMeRon) match on the winner's bracket, both ending up as a 5-0 win for the players with the higher seeds. What may have made a difference is the skill level of the players relative to the mappool.

On the -Messenger- vs CronoRock27 match, you can see that CronoRock27 dominated all of the notecharts played during their match, with him leading by as much as 88501 points on ETIA. - Claiomh Solais (-SoraGami-) [4K Insane], which is one of the more formidable picks for a good amount of players left in the tourney. On the scissorsf vs JztCallMeRon match, we saw a closer match in terms of points, but on lapix - NEO GRAVITY (Aras25) [Lenfried's INFINITE] (which is scissorsf's pick) we see a wider gap from scissorsf's score (972,856) and JztCallMeRon's (948,553).

The Next Round



For convenience, let's look at the Winner's bracket first. As expected by many, we have Tokiiwa and scissorsf battling it out for a slot on the Winner's Bracket Finals, and _Shirayukihime_ and Muttsulinii for the other. Although not that much is expected from the match stated earlier, Tokiiwa vs scissorsf should still prove to be an exciting match to watch. On the other hand, _Shirayukihime_ (Seed 2) vs Muttsulinii (Seed 3) will be the third close-seeded match of the tournament, and given the semis pool, this match will really be exciting and this might actually go the distance.

We have two rounds of matches to be conducted on the loser's bracket for this weekend. On the first round, we might see the odds favoring the higher-seeded players, it might be because of some lower-seeded players being not able to keep up with their opponents in terms of skill level. Upsets are not ruled out though, since there might be players who are considered "late bloomers" and we might see their actual force now that the notecharts are significantly harder than the ones during the start of the elimination phase.

The second round features the winners of the matches conducted on the round explained earlier. If the higher-seeded players win their matches, we will be seeing -BlueFire- (Seed 6) vs DJSuperNOVA (Seed 7), while will be really interesting as to how these two will keep up with the pool, especially -BlueFire-, who admittedly, is not that much of a 4K player, and "might not perform that well", that though, is not an excuse for him. Given the same scenario, the other match will be JztCallMeRon (Seed 5) vs meatmap (Seed 8), which is another must-watch, and will be a battle of consistency. Upsets on the earlier round will make the loser's bracket crazier and one would need an insane amount of guts to be able to predict what will happen.

You can keep track of the brackets on this link. | The results spreadsheet can be found here.

Picks and Bans



Most Picked Notechart: Touyama Nao & Hanazawa Kana - Taisetsu no Tsukurikata (Asterisk remix) (N0thingSpecial) [Muu's MX] and ginhika - EOS ([A v a l o n]) [Shana's DayBreak] (4 picks each)

Both are known as the accuracy picks of the round, players would obviously take the opportunity to get a point from these two charts, and probably "intimidate" the opponent by saying "O sige, accuracy pick pa, di yan tatalab sa akin." (Accuracy picks won't work on me, man.)

Most Banned Notechart: Cardboard Box - Infernoplextratone (pikechu) [Challenge] (5 bans)

For this one, I invited Lenfried-, one of the map selectors for this tourney to give his insight.

infernoplextratone due to it's insane amount of uncomfortable pattern at a whopping 256 bpm makes this one of the hardest charts in the pool. The chart may have not suited most of the player's skillsets making it the more favorable map to ban, the match-ups is also something to consider.

Notable Stuff:
The mere fact that the picks and bans are very diverse, that IS notable. One thing that disturbs me though, is that the players may have forgotten that ginkiha - eastward (Rizqy) [Another] exists in the pool

Semifinals Mappool

1. Nanahira - Kankitsurui Shoujo (SurfChu85) [4K Lemon! Collab]
2. aaaa - Bokutachi no Tabi to Epilogue.[Long ver.] (Daikyi) [Final Voyage]
3. Memme - Chinese Restaurant (ajeemaniz) [Insanity "Noodles"]
4. saradisk - 188 - Rengoku Teien (Evening) [Oiiii Teitoku ~]
5. sakuzyo - Altale (Kuo Kyoka) [Starry's Another Lv. 29]
6. Nobuo Uematsu - Liberi Fatali (Halogen-) [Insane]
7. Hecq - Dstrukt (YunoFanatic) [4K Atramentous]
8. Orange Wolke vs Double L - Great Spirits Remix Eff.DL (FaL3C_ChoBo) [4K FaL3C]
9. Hommarju feat. mamiko - Katayoku No Tori (Awang411) [8th Twilight]
10. maras k - Play Time!! (MasterSonic10) [SC]
11. SAMBA MASTER -SATOH- - Samba Land (Shoegazer) [Capoeira]
12. weyheyhey !! - When I Think About You I Cut Myself (Shoegazer) [Lovesick]
13. The Flashbulb - The Bridgeport Run (Chrubble) [Escapist]
14. Memme - BSpower BigBang (FaL3C_ChoBo) [BigBang]
15. BanYa Remixed by DM Ashura - Ignis Fatuus (AncuL) [MX]
16. Shiro Sagisu - Quatre Mains (a quatre mains) =3EM16= (Fullerene-) [pour quatre cles]

TIEBREAKER

1. Reizoko CJ - Thriller [4D-Architext] (Quick Draw) [4K SC]

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The Qualifiers



And the tournament started with 32 people. These people who aim to be one of the best 4K players in the archipelago. But before they even reach the tournament proper, four notecharts were thrown at them to filter out the ones who do not make the cut... with a twist. The organizers have placed a very evil stipulation on the qualifying round which forces the players to be placed on a randomized pair and will basically carry each other to the next round. A good amount of tournament favorites failed to pass through, most surprisingly, arcwinolivirus, who is one of the osu!mania 4K Superstars in the country. We also saw a handful of new names who passed through the qualifiers, namely -Messenger-, Malgedion, and CronoRock27.

Qualifying Stats can be found here.

Round of 16

Full Round Recap found here.



The sweet sixteen. People tend to call the tournament proper's first round as the "Round of Accuracy". Quite obvious given the mappools. As expected, the upper seeds got the most of the ability to win their match and get their wins, relegating their opponents to the loser's bracket.

Quarterfinals

Full Round Recap found here.



Similar to the Round of 16, nothing special really happened during this round. With the people expected to win their matches and move on to the next round. Unfortunately, [ Migi ], -Messenger-, _Ka0s_, and [ Libed ] were sent home after losing two matches in the tourney proper.

Semi-finals

Full Round Recap found here.



Things now start to get interesting. Loser's Round 2 and 3 went pretty much as expected, maybe except for one player, CronoRock27, pulling off two upsets during the week, and moved on to the next weekend of competition. The Winner's Bracket went the obvious route, and had Tokiiwa and Nikana (formerly known as Muttsulinii) facing off on their Bracket's final.

Finals Week 1



And there were six... or should I say four left since there were two matches that went by the way of default. The matches went again as expected with Tokiiwa getting the first seat on the grand finals. scissorsf and Nikana (formerly known as Muttsulinii, if you missed my note earlier) facing off for the other spot, and Nikana, eventually getting that spot after taking advantage of the pressure scissorsf had due to him choking a lot during his plays on their match.

The Grand Finals



I think I have nothing to say here now. The figure says it all.

Other vital links: Brackets | Match Results

Mappick Trends
Written by Lenfried-

DISCLAIMER: Input will not be provided on Finals due to the lack of matches
The variety of skillsets out participants provide in this tournament has been pretty noticeable, and is shown by what has been banned. Contrary to the hate LN charts get, most of the bans are more focused on rigid patterns, technical music, and SV-heavy charts. This is heavily expressed during the Round of 16, with Last Star in The Universe, La Campanella, and Marble Soda alongside a few other maps got the most bans. During the Quarterfinals, most of the bans focused on Infernoplextratone and quite less on furioso melodia and TRICKL4SH 220. The sense of not wanting to play marathon songs start to kick in during the Semifinals, whose more favored bans are Bokutachi no Tabi to Epilogue, Great Spirits Remix, and Katayoku No Tori, all known to be the more lengthy charts of the round. The general skillsets the players possess mostly take accuracy maps with chords and also for comfortable jumpstreams: anemone and ANiMA during the Round of 16; Taisetsu no Tsukurikata and EOS for Quarterfinals; and Rengoku Teien and Kankitsurui Shoujo. Players may have not paid much attention to difficulty was given to the chord based maps as there was a bit of variety in the jumpstreams.