- This is an international osu! standard 2-vs-2 team tournament for the 250k-150k rank range.
- Each team will have a minimum number of 2 players and can have up to 4 players.
- All players must remain in the rank range until the end of player registrations.
- Any player whose rank is not in the rank range when registrations end will be subsequently removed from the tournament, no exceptions. If this results in a team not having enough members, then the team will be removed from participation in the tournament.
- If you fall in one of these categories, then you are not eligible to participate in NPC: if you were restricted within the past 12 months, if you have earned a profile badge, and/or if you were a member of the winning team of NPC2.
- All players must join the Discord server by the end of player registrations; otherwise, your registration is void.
- All players will undergo a screening by both osu! staff and the admins after registrations end. Any players who have been screened out or found to have suspicious behaviors will be disqualified, and teams whose member counts drop below 2 will become free agents.
- Any remaining free agents after registrations end will be grouped by the admins into free agent teams.
- ScoreV2 and NoFail will be enabled in all matches.
- The tournament will start with a qualifiers round, then at most the top 32 teams will advance to the double-elimination bracket rounds.
- Seeding for the bracket rounds will be from #1 to at most #32 dependent on qualifier results, and match-ups will follow traditional format: #1 vs #32, #2 vs #31, etc.
- There will be a bracket reset in the grand finals if necessary.
- All matches in RO32 and RO16 will be Best of 9 with 1 ban per team.
- All matches in QF and SF will be Best of 11 with 2 bans per team.
- All matches in F and GF will be Best of 13 with 2 bans per team.
- All times and dates will be in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The main sheet will have the current time in UTC for your convenience. Alternatively, you can Google to find your time in UTC.
- Match schedules and mappools will be released on the Monday before those matches are played at 15:00 UTC.
- Admins, Spreadsheeters, Mappoolers, Playtesters/Replayers, and Referees are NOT allowed to play in this tournament. However, GFX Artists, Streamers, and Commentators ARE allowed to play.
- Reschedules must be made at least 6 hours before the scheduled match time and 24 hours before the new match time. Reschedules submitted within either of these time windows are not likely to be accepted except in extreme cases under the discretion of the hosts/admins (e.g. medical issues, sudden emergencies, etc.). Please do not ping any referees in regards to reschedules.
- Host/admins reserve the right to report any and all suspicious player activity to osu! staff for further instructions on possible disqualification of said players during the course of the tournament. Should this result in disqualification, the players’ team(s) will be disqualified from participation in this tournament, and this may lead to replays of affected rounds.
- Hosts/admins reserve the right to ban any players whose conduct is bannable on Discord and Twitch from participation in the tournament.
- Hostile behavior against any member of the staff or any participant in this tournament is not allowed at any time, and upon further examination, may or may not result in the team’s disqualification from the tournament.
Qualifiers
- Players will be notified through the Discord server to sign up for various qualifier lobbies that will be scheduled throughout the weekend.
- For each day qualifier lobbies are scheduled for, 2 additional extra lobbies will be available for teams to request specific times for. Any additional requests for extra lobbies are not likely to be accepted except in extreme cases under the discretion of the hosts/admins.
- At least 10 minutes before the qualifier lobby, the assigned referee will make the lobby and ping the players in the Discord server. Captains should be online in-game to receive their invites. The captain is then responsible for inviting the rest of their team. If the captain of a team is not online, the referee will invite any other player from that team, and that player will be responsible for inviting their team.
- Teams have up to 10 minutes after the scheduled lobby time to have at least 2 members present in the lobby. If a team fails to have at least 2 members present in the lobby after the 10 minutes pass, the team must forfeit their participation in the particular qualifiers lobby and sign up for another one.
- No warmup will be played.
- The mappool will be played through ONCE in order.
- If a team is seen playing the qualifiers mappool more than once in a qualifier lobby, they will be immediately disqualified from the tournament.
- Qualifier results and MP links will not be released until all qualifier lobbies have finished.
- Qualifiers results will be ordered from highest to lowest average relative score. The average relative score for each team is the average of the relative scores (team score / max score) across all maps in the qualifiers round for that particular team. An example can be viewed here.
Bracket Stages
- At least 10 minutes before the match, the assigned referee will make the lobby and ping the players in the discord server about their match. Captains should be online in-game to receive their invites. The captain is then responsible for inviting the rest of their team. If the captain of a team is not online, the referee will invite any other player from that team, and that player will be responsible for inviting their team.
- Teams have a strict 10 minute grace period after the scheduled match time to have at least 2 players from their team present in the lobby. If 10 minutes pass and a team does not have enough players present, the other team will receive a win by default.
- At the start of the match, both teams have the option of playing warm-ups, and can choose to decline. The order of warm-ups is not strict, and is at the discretion of the referee.
- Warm-up maps must be under 4 minutes in length and comply with Twitch’s Terms of Service. Only standard-mode maps are allowed.
- After warm-ups, the referee will instruct team captains to !roll. The winner of the roll chooses either the pick order or the ban order, and the loser chooses the remaining order (ex: Team A wins the roll and chooses to ban second, which means Team B will ban first and get to choose to pick first or second).
- Banned maps are not allowed to be picked by any team in the entire match.
- For rounds that require 2 bans from each team, bans will be conducted with the snake draft system, i.e. bans will proceed in ABBA order (Team A bans first, then Team B bans twice, and then Team A bans second).
- Teams are given 2 minutes to determine each ban upon instruction from the referee. If they fail to ban in the allotted time, the ban is given to the other team. This will have no effect on the ban order afterwards.
- Double banning from the same mod category is not allowed, with the exception of double banning NoMod.
- Double picking from the same mod category IS allowed.
- Each team has 120 seconds to pick a map. If they fail to ban in the allotted time, the pick is given to the other team. This will have no effect on the pick order afterwards.
- NoFail will be enforced on every map.
- For FreeMod maps, each team must have 2 unique mods enabled along with NoFail. Unique mods for FreeMod are HD, (HD)HR, and (HD)EZ.
- The EZ multiplier for this tournament is 1.75.
- Tiebreakers will be played under FreeMod rules, but mods are not required.
- After a team picks a map, both teams have 90 seconds to make substitutions and ready up for the map. If a team has not readied up within the 90 seconds, the referee will force start the map, and the map will be played with whoever is in the lobby.
- Unlimited substitutions are allowed in between maps.
- In case of a genuine disconnection in the first 30 seconds of the map, the map may be replayed ONCE. One replay is allowed in a match per team. The player who disconnected has 5 minutes to reconnect. No substitutions are allowed during this time. If the time allotted has passed and the player has not re-joined, then the point will be awarded to the other team. At this point in time, if the team does not have enough players present due to the disconnection, the disconnected player will have 10 minutes to reconnect. After the allotted time, if the disconnected player has not re-joined the lobby, the other team will be awarded a win by default.
- If a team disconnects on the same map twice in a row or on 2 different maps, the point will be automatically awarded to the other team. This is to prevent abuse through manually leaving the game after missing on a map.
- Disconnections after 30 seconds will not trigger a replay and only the scores that appear on the MP link will be calculated.
- Note that lag is not a valid reason for replaying a map.
- If a beatmap ends in a draw, the map will be nullified and replayed. This replay will not be counted as a replay caused by disconnection.
- Registrations: September 18 - October 10
- Screening: October 11 - October 18
If screening takes longer than expected, qualifiers will be pushed back a week extra. - Qualifiers: October 23 - October 25
- RO32: October 31 - November 1
- RO16: November 7 - November 8
- Quarterfinals: November 14 - November 15
- Semifinals: November 21 - November 22
- Finals: November 28 - November 29
- Grand Finals: December 5 - December 6
- First Place Team: 5-month supporter + Profile Banner
- Second Place Team: 2-month supporter
- Third Place Team: 1-month supporter
Hosts: 
tarrigan, DeltaFour
Admins:
Mashyuf, 
[ shine ], Quag, 
- Mirage -
Spreadsheets:DeltaFour, Mashyuf, QuintecX
GFX Artists:Daitsuku, Zeity
Mappoolers:Quag, 
Walfurus, 
Jhayyy,
Dragbit 6
Playtesters/Replayers:
gay furry, [TH]_Eugen_, Mashyuf, -careless-, [ shine ], 
GDLenny, bud64, Aleks0, [404] Towa, Daitsuku, 
CardinalWolf, FrozenTea
Streamers:[404] Towa, Aleks0, ITotallyGetThat, 
JesusWCS, -careless-, Walfurus, bud64, Dragbit 6, PacoTaco03
Commentators:QuintecX, [Dom], Aleks0, Mashyuf, Zeity, Walfurus, -careless-, FrozenTea, Dragbit 6, PacoTaco03
Referees:Agostino, QuintecX, [Dom], Aleks0, gay furry, [TH]_Eugen_, JesusWCS, Mashyuf, Zeity, [ shine ], Walfurus, -careless-, GDLenny, tarrigan, FrozenTea, Dragbit 6, MoopFoopSoup, CardinalWolf, [404] Towa, PacoTaco03
Wiki Editor:Mashyuf
If you would like to help with the tournament through staffing or prize pool donations, please contact either Chugga444#3800 or Nambulance#0450 on Discord.
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If you would like to help with the tournament through staffing or prize pool donations, please contact either Chugga444#3800 or Nambulance#0450 on Discord.