1. If a country does not have enough players to join, we will group them up with neighbouring countries
   - Countries with the least players will take priority for which one you will be grouped with
2. If your country has enough players to create a second team, we will allow you to create not one but two teams
   - Team captain will have to assign a new captain for this second team and they can select their roster
   - A maximum of 2 teams per country is allowed
3. Games are played as a 3v3 with ScoreV2
4. A team consists of at least 3 players, with a maximum of 6
5. In order to participate, you have to be 3 digits until registrations end and screening is sent in, after that you can farm away
6. The bracket stage will be double elimination
7. Teams have 1 ban each.
8. There will be a total of two converts in the Qualifier stage, one Nomod and one Doubletime.
9. There will be a total of three converts in all other stages, one Nomod, one Doubletime and one Mixed mod.
10. Badges that are older than 5 years will not count towards BWS.

1. The score used in this tournament will be ScoreV2.
2. NoFail will be used on every map
3. Teams will be matched up through seeding from the Qualifier stage.
4. The mappool of the Qualifiers will be played through twice.
   - Only the first playthrough is required, your team can opt-out of the second playthrough.
5. If a team is 10 minutes late for a match, they will be disqualified for that match and lose by default.
6. If a team does not contain enough players to play a match (3 players), the opposing team will win the match.
7. Commentators aren't allowed to bad-mouth players at any time.
   - If one does, then please report this to Snowleopard or one of the other hosts.

1. You are allowed to switch players in between maps.
2. You cannot nullify a beatmap under any circumstance.
3. A map can only be retried when something hindering happens (such as a disconnect) in the first 20 seconds of that map. This is only allowed once per match for each team.
4. The rolling mechanic that decides who picks and bans in what order will be as follows: the winning team of a roll may decide whether they get first ban AND second pick, or ban second AND pick first.
5. Always remember that this is just a game (i.e. behave yourself)
6. If neither team has enough players to conduct the match a roll will be done to determine the match’s winner

1. The qualifier mappool will consist of 3 NoMod, 2 Hidden, 2 HardRock, 3 Doubletime maps
2. The mappools will consist of 3 NoMod, 2 Hidden, 2 HardRock, 3 DoubleTime, 3 Mixed Mod and 1 Tiebreaker maps
3. The amount of maps per mod bracket will increase slightly in later stages
4. The Tiebreaker will be played with either NoMod or Hidden. Any other mods are NOT allowed.
5. When picking either DoubleTime or HardRock maps, you are allowed to pick Hidden alongside

1. There will be 2 playthroughs
2. All the maps will be played once, starting from NM1 - NM2 - NM3 - HD1, etc
3. For the 2nd playthrough you are allowed to skip for example NM1 (the order will remain the same, see above), however if another team in your qualifier lobby wants to play this you are gonna have to wait for them to finish playing the map
4. The highest score of both playthroughs will be used
5. You will be playing in teams of 3 and are free to swap players in between each map
6. Nofail will be used for all maps (this is for the whole tournament, not just Qualifiers)
7. Hidden is allowed alongside Hardrock & Doubletime
8. If your team fails to show up on time, your team is allowed to join part way through the lobby with a small penalty
   - Your team forfeits the 2nd playthrough for the maps that you have missed before.
   - Your team will still be allowed the 2nd playthrough for the maps that you have not missed.
9. In between maps you have 1 minute to ready up, make sure to have the maps downloaded!

Badge Weighting System (BWS)

BWS_rank = global_rank^(0.9937^(badges^2))

1. A profile badge (pending approval) - the design will be announced later.