Overview:
Manten European Bluelock tournament is an osu!standard tournament for players ranked 80k - 300k that begins in a 1v1 format.
Players must live in a country in Europe (geographically), Turkiye, Russia (up to UTC+3) and Africa.

Disqualification:
Players that are outside the rank range at the end of the registration period may be removed from the tournament.
Players that are not living in an adequate timezone will be removed from the tournament.
Suspicious players may be removed from the tournament at any point (blatant cheating, multiaccounting,...)
Players sabotaging their own team may get removed from the tournament (if you make sure to lose a match on purpose to be teamnapped you will be removed from the tournament).
Players (and staff) being toxic in a match, in DMs, in the tournament’s Discord server or in a chat may get banned from the tournament. That also includes racism, insults, or religions disrespects, etc.

Tournament timeline:
Mar 15: Player Registrations open
Apr 07: Player registrations closes
Apr 14 - Apr 16: Qualifiers
Apr 21 - Apr 23: Round 1
Apr 28 - Apr 30: Round 2
May 05 - May 07: Round 3
May 12 - May 14: Round 4
May 19 - May 21: Round 5
May 26 - May 28: Round 6

Concept of the gimmick
1. The top 48 players that participate to the qualifiers will be drafted according to their seeds to make 16 teams.
2. The top 16 teams will advance to playing the (bracket stage’s) first round in the winner’s bracket; no team will be in the loser’s bracket in the first round.
3. Bracket stage has teams going against each other depending of their position in the brackets; their initial position in the winner’s bracket is decided by their position in Qualifiers
4.1. Teams winning a match will be able to steal 1 player of their choosing from the losing team before advancing. That means that when you win a match you can choose a player from the opposing team and recruit them in your team. The two remaining losers just remain as a 2 players team in losers bracket.
4.2. Teams losing a match in loser’s bracket will be eliminated (though one player of an eliminated team gets to play with the winning team per rule 4.1)
5.1. In the penultimate round, the only team remaining in the winner’s bracket will not have to play any match
5.2. In the penultimate round, teams in the loser’s bracket will play a maximum of 2 matches before moving advancing
6. Each round has its own mappool, including qualifiers. Each pool will have a “secret” slot with a special gimmick that will be revealed with the mappool showcase.

Match procedures: Qualifiers
🔗 Players will be pinged by their room’s referee around 10 minutes in advance.
🔗 Players have until Tuesday 0 UTC to sign up for a qualifier room. Any sign ups after that time will not be accepted.
🔗 For Qualifiers, warmups will not be allowed. Players will play all maps in the pool once; starting from NM1 to FM1.
🔗 NF will be enforced on all maps, including FM. Mods allowed in FM are: NoMod (More at FreeMod Rules), HD, HR, EZ, FL. For the FreeMod map, a mod must be used. Multipliers will be the same for bracket stages and qualifiers ; EZ = x1.7 and FL = x1.5.
🔗 If a player disconnects or encounters problems within the first 30 seconds of a map, the referee will abort the lobby. That player will be granted a 4 min grace period to get ready and replay that map when the lobby is finished.

Match procedures: Round 1 onwards
🔗 A default schedule will be given to all matches, teams are free to reschedule their match through the usual reschedule procedure specified in the Discord channel dedicated to that effect
🔗 If a team does not have enough players to play a map in the match’s lobby 15 minutes after the scheduled time, that team will automatically forfeit (unless something is agreed upon between the two teams (and possibly by the host))
🔗 Each team may choose one warmup map per match, those should be under 3 minutes of drain time (unless the referee and both teams are okay with longer maps)
🔗 Once warmups are done, both captains (or designated players by the referee) will do the “!roll” command
🔗 The winner of the roll will decide whether or not their team will ban first. The loser of the roll will decide whether or not their team will pick first. For matches with 2 bans per team, the ban order is ABBA (the team that bans first also bans last)
🔗 Double banning (one team banning two maps of the same mod) is not allowed, except for NM. Double picking (one team picking two maps of the same mod in a row) is not allowed, except for NM.
🔗 Players will be given 120 seconds to pick a map and an additional 90 seconds to get ready.
🔗 FM require one player of each team to play with HD or EZHD, and one other player of each team to play with HR or HDHR. Other players (third player and so on) can play with any mod combinations including NF, FL and EZ. EZ will have a x1.7 multiplier and FL will have a 1.5x multiplier. Players can overmod (have more mods than the two required mods) if they wish to do so.
🔗TB will only be played once both teams are at match point, Freemod rules and custom multipliers are not enforced.

1. If a player doesn’t pick a map before the (120 second) timer, the referee will ask for a pick. If this repeats (3 or more), that player will: Lose their pick, the opponent will get a point and have the next pick.
2. When the (90 second) timer is up, referee will do !mp start 10 and start the match.

🔗 If problems occur in the first 30 seconds, the referee will abort the match. That player will have 10 minutes to return to the room and get ready.

1. If that player does not return after 5 minutes (or does not respond to pings), that player will lose their pick.
2. If that player does not return after 10 minutes (or does not respond to pings) then it will count as FF.

🔗 In the event of multiple disconnections (3 instances or more) or suspected foul play, the referee has to contact an admin to assess the situation immediately.

Host: MantenJD
Admins: Taevas, TheBear53
Referees: MantenJD, TheBear53, Taevas, diesel23323, foxy1919191919, ShiruoX, iite, Annaki
Poolers: MantenJD, foxy1919191919, iite, ShiruoX
Streamers: MantenJD
Commentators: MantenJD, Subaru_Arima, foxy1919191919