Heya everyone, we're back! Welcome to the third edition of the 4k Benelux Mania Tournament! Since the successful run of previous year, we are planning to make it even more amazing this time. Again, like it's predecessor (and totally not copy pasted btw), this tournament will give you the oppurtunity to show off your skills in a regional locked environment consisting of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. I wish you good luck and happy keyboard mashing!
Staff
Hosts:
GFX:
Statistician:
Mappoolers:
Mappers:
Streamers:
Showcase Replayers:
Referees:
Commentators:
Dates
Here are the current planned dates for the tournament! These dates are subject to change and a host will notify the participants in the Discord server if it does change.
Registration Phase: 01/03/2021 - 19/03/2021 23:59 UTC+1
Screening Phase: 20/03/2021 - 26/03/2021
Qualifier Showcase: 27/03/2021
Qualifier Stage: 03/04/2021 - 04/04/2021
Round of 64: 10/04/2021 - 11/04/2021
Round of 32: 17/04/2021 - 18/04/2021
Round of 16: 24/04/2021 - 25/04/2021
Quarterfinals: 01/05/2021 - 02/05/2021
Semifinals: 08/05/2021 - 09/05/2021
Finals Week 1: 15/05/2021 - 16/05/2021
Finals Week 2: 22/05/2021 - 23/05/2021
Please take note that if there are less than 64 participants in the Qualifier Stage, the Round of 64 will not be played and all the stages will be shifted to one week earlier (so the tournament also ends one week earlier).
Registration
In order to register yourself for the tournament, please fill in the following registration form and join the tournament Discord server. Joining this Discord server is mandatory. You also must not have violated the osu! community rules in the past 12 months and you need to have the flag from one of the following three countries on your profile to be eligible for the tournament:
Belgium
The Netherlands
Luxembourg
Discord Server
After successfully completing these steps, you will be registered for the tournament!
If, by any chance, there are problems with your registration, we will contact you and provide further instructions.
Please note that if a player gets restricted and/or banned before or during the tournament, said player will not be allowed to participate and will immediately get disqualified with no exceptions.
Screening Phase
As you read in the "Dates" section, BNL plans to award the BNL Champion with an unique Profile Badge. In order to make this happen, this tournament must meet the requirement of sending the osu!staff a list of every player who signs up for this tournament in order for them to be screened for past or current violations of the osu!community rules. If you would like to read more about the screening process and profile badges, you can do that here. If in this screening phase, osu!staff finds that you have violated the osu! community rules in the past 12 months, then we sadly will have to deny you as eligible to participate in BNL 2021. All players found in violation after the screening will be given time to appeal their stance, and if osu! staff changes their mind on a player's eligibility and notifies a host of this, then they will still be eligible for participation.
Qualifier Stage
The Qualifier Stage will be played in the first week of tournament play to eliminate the amount of players down to a preferred number. If the amount of participants exceeds 64, everyone ranked worse than #64 in the Qualifier Stage will be eliminated. If the amount of participants is less than 64, but more than 32, a Play-offs Stage will be held (more about the Play-offs stage further below). If the amount of participants is 32 or less, the amount of participants will get cut down to the closest power of two.
This stage consists of 5 predetermined maps, each testing a different skillset in an attempt to accurately rank players in performance and will be released approximately one week before the stage. Players will play all 5 maps twice in a scheduled lobby. The highest score of both attempts of every map will be counted. A referee will invite you 5 minutes before the scheduled time and will provide you with further instructions. There will be no warm ups in the Qualifier Stage, so please warm up before your lobby starts.
Player performances will be ranked according to the average rank of the player across all 5 maps. In case of a tie, the player with the higher total score will be on top. This means that you essentially will be playing against every other player of the tournament in this stage and not only the players in your lobby.
Play-offs Stage
If the amount of participants playing in the Qualifier Stage is less than 64, but more than 32, a Play-offs Stage will be held to replace the Round of 64 Bracket Stage. In this stage, single elimination matches will be played by the bottom seeds until we reach the desired amount of participants being 32 players. A certain amount of the best performing players in the Qualifier stage do not need to play in the Play-offs Stage and will therefore automatically advance to the next round. The Round of 32 Bracket Stage will continue in the following week as planned.
For example: If 49 participants play in the Qualifier stage, the top 15 best performing players in the Qualifier Stage will advance to the Round of 32 Bracket Stage automatically, while the bottom 34 performing players will face off against each other in a single elimination match to reduce the amount of participants to 32.
Play-offs Mappool: Best-of-7, first to 4 points wins. The mappool contains 9 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Bracket Stages
The Bracket Stages consists of a double-elimination bracket with the remaining players. Each stage will feature a new mappool that gets released approximately one week before their respective stage. The size of the mappool will depend on the stage.
Round of 64: Best-of-7, first to 4 points wins. The mappool contains 9 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Round of 32: Best-of-7, first to 4 points wins. The mappool contains 9 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Round of 16: Best-of-9, first to 5 points wins. The mappool contains 11 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Quarterfinals: Best-of-9, first to 5 points wins. The mappool contains 11 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Semifinals: Best-of-11, first to 6 points wins. The mappool contains 13 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Finals Week 1: Best-of-11, first to 6 points wins. The mappool contains 13 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Finals Week 2: Best-of-13, first to 7 points wins. The mappool contains 15 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Match Procedures
- A referee will create a multiplayer room 10 minutes in advance. Players must gather during this period.
- The room settings are mania, Head-to-head, ScoreV2.
- The room name must be "BNL: (Player A) vs (Player B)".
- Each player is free to select up to one warm-up map. Using beatmaps with questionable content is prohibited. All maps must be osu!mania 4K specific maps and have a drain time of 4:00 or less.
- Each player must use "!roll" once in #multiplayer. The winner of the !roll decides if they want to protect/ban/pick first or protect/ban/pick second.
- *NEW* Each player must protect one map from the pool excluding the tiebreaker map. These maps are not allowed to be banned by any player in the entire match.
- Each player must ban one map from the pool excluding the tiebreaker map. These maps are not allowed to be picked by any player in the entire match.
- Map picks will alternate between each player untill either one player wins the match or both players need one more point to win the match. In the latter case, the tiebreaker will be played.
- Players are allowed to add No Fail, Mirror, Hidden, Fade In and/or Flashlight.
Prizes
Links
Twitch
BNL 2020
BNL 2018