As part of ongoing efforts to involve community discourse in our decisionmaking, we've recently finalized a new change with the Tournament Committee regarding how permanent tournament bans will handled going forward.
From now on, permanent tournament bans will be considered as indefinite instead. What this functionally means is that they may now be appealed.
A summarized version of the functional changes this produces are as follows (you can consult the tournament bans wiki article for more information):
- Indefinite tournament bans may now be appealed after at least two years (24 months) have passed since their first offense.
- There is no guarantee that an indefinitely tournament banned player will have their appeal accepted.
- Appealing an indefinite tournament ban requires the demonstration of a substantial amount of time, effort and investment into the broader osu! community to make up for the damage they have caused to the scene.
Most permanently/indefinitely tournament banned users will derive no change in their status from these changes, but some may find a narrow window of opportunity to redeem themselves and fix their standing in the osu! community, in line with our view that everyone deserves a second chance.
We understand that this may appear as if it is a sharp departure from our previous zero-tolerance stance on offenses in the tournament scene - please rest assured that we intend and expect this change to permit an extremely small minority of genuinely remorseful people to return to play after a long period of contribution. It does NOT mean that all indefinite tournament bans will be treated with any less gravity as permanent ones were, or that any chance of success in appealing these bans is guaranteed at any point.
Each individual will be judged as per their specific circumstances and offenses, and there will be no standardized or 'one-size-fits-all' terms similarly to how normal restriction appeals function.
To better facilitate transparency in this regard, we have decided to publicly announce all indefinite tournament ban reversals made via these appeals. Please consult the posts below for summaries of individual users who have returned in this manner.
From now on, permanent tournament bans will be considered as indefinite instead. What this functionally means is that they may now be appealed.
A summarized version of the functional changes this produces are as follows (you can consult the tournament bans wiki article for more information):
- Indefinite tournament bans may now be appealed after at least two years (24 months) have passed since their first offense.
- There is no guarantee that an indefinitely tournament banned player will have their appeal accepted.
- Appealing an indefinite tournament ban requires the demonstration of a substantial amount of time, effort and investment into the broader osu! community to make up for the damage they have caused to the scene.
Most permanently/indefinitely tournament banned users will derive no change in their status from these changes, but some may find a narrow window of opportunity to redeem themselves and fix their standing in the osu! community, in line with our view that everyone deserves a second chance.
We understand that this may appear as if it is a sharp departure from our previous zero-tolerance stance on offenses in the tournament scene - please rest assured that we intend and expect this change to permit an extremely small minority of genuinely remorseful people to return to play after a long period of contribution. It does NOT mean that all indefinite tournament bans will be treated with any less gravity as permanent ones were, or that any chance of success in appealing these bans is guaranteed at any point.
Each individual will be judged as per their specific circumstances and offenses, and there will be no standardized or 'one-size-fits-all' terms similarly to how normal restriction appeals function.
To better facilitate transparency in this regard, we have decided to publicly announce all indefinite tournament ban reversals made via these appeals. Please consult the posts below for summaries of individual users who have returned in this manner.