Well, SOFT3 is finally over.
Congratulations
Lothus for winning the Springtime osu!mania Free For All Tournament!
Unfortunatelly this year I didn't have the time that I would have wanted to dedicate to this tournament but I am very happy that the tournament was a success regardless of that. But that couldn't have been the case without the huge group of Staff members helping out with it. In fact, I wouldn't even consider myself to be the organizer of this tournament anymore, this guys are just all nuts!
Whether I do host the next edition of SOFT or not is still up in the air and it will likely be for at least some months. I imagine the people surrounding me during this long journeys will take the torch if needed. SOFT4 will indeed happen, it doesn't matter who is the host during that time, what matters is the spirit of the tournament to keep going.
Last year I took time to say a particular thank you to everyone in an exclusive post like this one and jesus we are a ton of people this time...
I already said thanks to all of you on stream, but I will repeat myself once more in a shorter way here.
Thanks,
-Konner- for being the second wheel whenever it was needed, to help me out organizing stuff on the earlier days and to take care of stuff when I wasn't around.
Shoegazer beside not being listed in here (what the actual FIRETRUCK) for being the madman behind all scenes during this tournament. Be it pushing people to do stuff they have to do, commentating, managing spreadsheets and stats and of course making sure all map pools were top notch in terms of quality as a map selector. You are one of, if not the biggest reason why this tournament managed to be as great as it was.
Gekido- and Guilhermeziat for dedicating so much time on crafting this great map pools during the whole tournament. A single paragraph is not enough for me to describe how thankful I am to have you around helping out here. I am happy with the results map pool wise and you are responsible of this. Working with you (the little times I had the time for) was fun and I hope you enjoyed it as well. Also Guil you are nuts jesus how do you map select for so many tournaments and you also commentate and you also metjhaetkaet3euioh6y3962612!512316
WalterToro for taking care of the wiki page and being the ABSOLUTE MADMAN that he always is when it comes to doing the referee job. Doesn't matter if its 5 AM or 5 PM he is always around for either this and the World Cups at the same time. You are awesome.
Halogen- for being the inspiration for this tournaments, the reason why this all existed in the first place. And for even doing his best to dedicate at least a bit of time to help out every now and then.
andreymc, Ciel, Hydria, SurfChu85, Steins, Raveille, Mathisca, MapleSyrup- and nonamegohst for being the manpower behind the huge work done ref-wise. You all did great, there were absolutely no complains and all because of your dedication and reliability. I am very glad to have such a team of great people helping out in what is, at least for me, a very important part for a tournament to be good.
Camopoltergeist and laughingcomet for being the gods of the streaming behind the tournament. Jesus, thank god you to exist. How do you even manage to keep up streaming for so long?! Let that answer be whatever you want to be but holy cow you both need to know that your work is not something anyone can do and I am super happy of you guys being able to pull it out. Covering matches for even more than 10 hours in a row is an absolute commitment and your dedication for this was so huge that you made it look like it was not even that big of a deal. Thank you so much.
shadowsnoop for being the BR partner that was there to help out literally everywhere. The brothers legion with Walter. You helped me out with the VODs, making sure to keep the streaming quality up whenever you had the chance to and even streaming yourself. You made sure the skin was done on time, you work well with others and you showed up when I needed you the most. Thanks bud.
Lusty Platypus, PotassiumF, stupud man and TheToaphster for helping out SO much in both fronts. Either World Cups or SOFT you were all playing in at least one of the tournaments while also helping out commentating each of them. That is something that noone would do normally yet you still dedicated all your time to help anywhere it was needed and you provided both tournaments with amazing no-stop commentary. You are all very good at what you do and you make a very good team, I hope to work with you guys again in the future, make that THOM cup or MWC4K.
Daikyi for your amazing puns. Literally you are one of the most funny guys I ever met. I know you didn't have as much time as you would have wanted to dedicate to this but let me tell you that I am extremely happy that you could find some time to help out when you actually had that time. You give that unique touch of yours to every stream you commentate and I am happy that SOFT didn't lose that this year.
Pope Gadget, Knif3rism, RemFangirl and Ruins for helping out in times of need. I know some of you had some issues at first but one way or another you managed to keep up and bring a helping hand whenever it was needed. That is exactly the spirit I wanted to see on this whole staff and you managed to deliver. Thanks for helping out this year again.
OsuMe65 for being again the main guy behind the graphics of SOFT. You provided yet again excelent ideas and very cool designs. A bit sad that you didn't have as much time as we hoped for so we had to stick with less stuff that we wanted but your touch was definetly there. Also please stop making random mascots that embarass people aaaaaaaaaaaaa (don't)
Valelup and aluuu for helping out OsuMe65 in different aspects and tunning up the skin when it was needed.
And of course, last but not least, thank you all the players and viewers to stick with us during this amazing journey once more. There were a lot of very insane matches and a lot of memories stored in my head now from this edition. We all do this for you and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Be that me or whoever it might, SOFT will be waiting for all of you next year. But for now, this is all I got.
