Coordinators: DannyPX, Logan636, Paturages
Consultants: Albionthegreat, Orca-, Polytetral
Map Selection Team:
Map Pool Selectors: chxu, DemiFiendSMT, Paturages
Map Creators: -mint-, [GS]Rose, AlexDunk, Archaic84, arccat, Biosphere, Claren, DannyPX, doctormango, Eclipse-, elexire, ERA Hatsuki, FelixSpade, HowToPlayLN, juankristal, Lerck, MIkuaimbot, MyZterioN-, Orca-, RuleBlazing, Stability, TheFunk
Map Selection Testers: -Yubi-, MyukaMyMommy, Archaic84, gyoza_goki, ERA Leon, MIkuaimbot, Toadette, SunApple
Referees:[Crz]xz1z1z, [GS]linc, ERA Xuste, -Yubi-, Albionthegreat, Alter-, Auxesiaa, Bexi, bonkmi, Chimchar, Chronicler,DannyPX, Doelon, Fisu, Fr05tyGD, Gerwin13, Halogen-,ldminh4354,Kyonkichi, Kurami_San, Lerck, Logg45vs, MashedPotato, MoltenLead,Mortelspawn_, Nazuna Amemiya, Orca-, Polytetral, Reihynn, Toadette, sukidayo-, TheHunter1, vleth, YuEast 2018, zero2snow, [Trz] Zulsramno
Streamers: [GS]Einar, Albionthegreat, Bexi, bonkmi, Doelon, EpsilonMaiagare, konkawe, Logg45vs, Mestro, NightNarumi, Paturages, Sinaeb, SunApple
Commentators: [Crz]Crysarlene, [GS]Antunder, [GS]linc,[LS]Ham,-mint-, -Sparky-, MyukaMyMommy, aiemasu, Akiri, Albionthegreat, Alter-,Bexi, CompNebula, Cryolien,DaMeMeThEiFxD, DHLEE727, Dynascape, EpsilonMaiagare,ERA Leon, Fisu, Fr05tyGD, FullCombro, H1Pur, Itawachi, juankristal, Kiraz, MashedPotato, Oofyxl, Orca-, Polytetral, PorkIsGreat, Raveille, Robeats, Toadette, Steeeven, sukidayo-, SunApple, TheFunk, Tre, walmart5193,
Designers: DannyPX
Statisticians Albionthegreat, HowToPlayLN, Polytetral
Wiki Managers: fajar13k
Pickems Managers: Albionthegreat
Fantasy League Managers: EliteDreamer

Please read the eligibility criteria directly below, as well as this entire forum post before registering.
In order to be eligible for this tournament:
1. You must be within the osu!mania 4 key rank range of #1,000-9,999 both when you submit your registration form and until the end of the registration phase.
2. You must not have violated the osu! community rules in the past 12 months.
3. You must not exceed the global osu!mania rank of #250.
4. You must not have been a part of a former winning 4 Digit MWC Team.
5. You must not appear on the list linked here
(There may be possibility to appeal your placement on this list. More information on this is given in the "Screening Phase" Section)

To register for this tournament:
1. Complete the Registration Form
2. Join the official Discord Server for 4 Digit MWC (failure to join may result in disqualification)
Registration Form
Discord Server

As you will read in the "Prizes" section below, 4DM2023 plans to award the players on top 3 finishing teams with a unique Profile Badge. In order to make this happen, this tournament must meet the requirement of sending 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 here. If in this screening, 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 4DM2023. 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 in 4DM2023!

Furthermore, there will be a Skill Based Restriction System developed and maintained by HowToPlayLN, Polytetral and Paturages in order to keep 4DM2023 fair to all players and as free of malicious sandbagging as possible.
To read more about the general scope of this system, please visit this website.
To see who has been shown to be too skilled for the tournament by this system, please visit this spreadsheet.

This list of players shown on the sheet is subject to change until it is announced that the list of signed and barred players has been sent to osu staff for review. Any player appearing on this list may not sign for 4DM2023, however there will be an appeal system. If you are shown as TRUE on both the ranked and tournament columns on this spreadsheet, you may not appeal your restriction to sign. However if you are only TRUE for one or the other, you may message log.#7606 with a request to appeal your restriction and a council of tournament staff will deliberate and decide if you should be banned or not. If you have any further questions, please state them in the questions channel of our discord!

Just like the official osu!mania World Cups, 4DM2023 will be a country based team tournament.

1. The country whose team you will play for is determined by the country whose flag is represented on your osu! profile.
2. At the end of the registration and screening phases, a team captain will be picked by the hosts from each country's signup list based on a number of aspects relating to tournament competency.
3. This team captain will pick the members to play alongside them on their country's team. The deadline for captains to submit their countries teams is by January 5th at 23:59 UTC
4. Teams will consist of a minimum of 3 members, and a maximum of 6 members per team.

QUALIFIER STAGE

After teams are selected, the first weekend of tournament play will be the Qualifier Stage in order to cut down to the 32 teams that will advance into the Round of 32, as well as to rank said teams in approximate order of skill. There will be a total of eight different qualifier maps, each meant to test a different skillset found in map pools throughout the tournament. The qualifier maps will follow this structure:
Stage 1: Slider Velocity (SV)
Stage 2: Rice Accuracy
Stage 3: Early Stage Hybrid
Stage 4: Long Note Releases
Stage 5: Long Note Density
Stage 6: Late Stage Hybrid
Stage 7: Rice Stamina
Stage 8: Rice Technical
Each of these maps will be custom made by the Map Selection Team and will not be released until approximately one week before the Qualifier Stage takes place in order to provide no advantage through familiarity.

For the Qualifier Stage, each team will play these eight maps in a scheduled lobby, going in Stage 1-8 order. Teams will present three players to play each map (switching which three play between maps is allowed), and will play each of the qualifier maps up to two times in the lobby. Whichever team score was the highest per stage will be recorded. (For example, if a team scores 975000, 975000, 980000 on one go and then 980000, 985000, 970000 on the next go, the 2nd go will be the one recorded because the total team score was higher on the second go.)

Teams will be ranked based on the “score rating” of their qualifier performances, meaning that each teams' performance on each of the eight qualifier maps will be ranked compared to every other team and the ranks that each team achieves on these maps will then be added up. The teams will then be sorted based on their "score rating" from lowest to highest, with lower score ratings being ranked better than higher score ratings. Essentially, a team's qualifier performance is ranked based on how well they perform compared to every other participating team.

BRACKET STAGE

After the Qualifier Stage, the remaining 32 teams will be placed into a double-elimination bracket in a predetermined order where Rank 1 faces Rank 32, Rank 2 faces Rank 31, etc.
(This follows the formula where A and B are placed to face in RO32 if "Team A Rank" + "Team B Rank" = 33)

The number of points needed to win each match as well as the size of the map pool used for the match will vary depending on stage. Map pools will be released approximately one week prior to their respective stages.

Round of 32: Best-of-9, first to 5 points wins. Map pool containing 12 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Round of 16: Best-of-9, first to 5 points wins. Map pool containing 12 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Quarterfinals: Best-of-11, first to 6 points wins. Map pool containing 14 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Semifinals: Best-of-11, first to 6 points wins. Map pool containing 14 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Finals Week 1: Best-of-13, first to 7 points wins. Map pool containing 16 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
Finals Week 2: Best-of-13, first to 7 points wins. Map pool containing 16 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.

NOTE: We will attempt to closely follow the rules of the most recent 4k osu!mania World Cup whose wiki page is hyperlinked here if you would like to read it.

1. The tournament hosts are responsible for scheduling all matches and informing players of when they are scheduled to play. If a team is unhappy with when they are scheduled by the hosts to play, they have the option to reschedule their match as late as the end of Thursday of the week before the weekend of their match. Instructions on how to do so will be provided in the Discord server.
2. Please note that while the organizers will try to schedule all matches for the best possible time for both teams, timezone conflicts may force some matches to occur in the early mornings or late nights.
3. If no referee is available to referee a match, the match shall be delayed.
4. If no streamers are available to broadcast the match, the match will still happen without being broadcasted.
5. If no commentators are available to commentate the match but broadcasters are available to broadcast the match, the match will still be broadcasted but without commentary. Please note that while we will try to broadcast every match, we may be unable to due to overlapping matches and/or lack of streamer availability.
6. Rescheduled matches will be prioritized under non-rescheduled matches in terms of being broadcasted.
7. Each respective stage of the tournament is to be completed in a single weekend, using the same map pool for the entire weekend. Weekday matches are allowed if both team captains agree to them and they take place before the weekend of that scheduled stage. As aforementioned, map pools will be released roughly a week before the stage they are to be played on. The latest a map in a released map pool may be slightly updated (for example, as to fixing a notable timing or snapping issue) is by 23:59 UTC of the Monday after the map pool is released.
8. If one player on a team has their account restricted while still participating in the tournament for reasons of believed cheating, multi accounting, or anything else, this player's entire team shall be disqualified from the tournament with no exceptions. Depending on the case, the team most recently defeated in a match by the newly disqualified team may be allowed to advance in this disqualified team's place. If this happens, the result of this former match will be voided.

Repeated and excessive toxic behavior toward any staff member, player, or spectator either in match multiplayer chatroom, the official discord server, or the official twitch channel chatroom is strictly prohibited and will lead to, in successive order with host’s discretion to skip certain steps:

1. Casual, undocumented warning
2. Formal, documented warning
3. Timeout of player wherever necessary for a subjective amount of time (Players on timeout during tournament match will be disallowed to play during their match and must be swapped out for other players)
4. Official ban from the tournament as well as a ban from the official Discord server and Twitch channel

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The links to the Registration Form and Discord Server invite are above in the "Registration" section.
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