- Touhou Tournament 3 will be held in a 2v2 format on osu!Standard. Teams will have at least 2 players and at most 4 players.
- Touhou Tournament 3 is an open-rank tournament.
- Mappools for Touhou Tournament 3 will feature maps of the OST and remixes.
- Team registrations are international.
- The tournament will be a Team VS ScoreV2 tournament.
- The tournament will start with a qualifier stage. The top 32 teams from qualifiers will advance to a double-elimination bracket.
- Reschedules must be submitted by Friday, 23:59 UTC for the week of play. Reschedules submitted after that time will be reviewed by the tournament administration.
- Players can submit a team registration here.
- Players who do not have a team can submit an LFT (looking for team) advertisement in the Discord server.
- The team captain must join the Discord server before the end of registration. Failure to do so will void their team registration.
- Commentators, streamers, and GFX artists are the only staff members allowed to play and staff simultaneously. Tournament admins, mappoolers, playtesters, and referees may not play in the tournament while being a member of the staff team. Eliminated players from the tournament may request to be part of the referee and/or mappool playtesting/replayer team. See the Staff section for instructions on joining staff.
- Team names may have a maximum of 18 characters.
- Offensive and/or derogatory team names are NOT allowed.
As a reminder, all players are expected to adhere to and follow the osu! Community Rules and In-Game Chat rules. Failure to do so will result in an individual or team disqualification from the tournament based on the severity of the infractions. Infractions that are severe enough can result in a blacklist from future iterations.
Qualifiers
Bracket Stage
Freemod Rules
Qualifiers
- Qualifier lobbies will be held periodically during the qualifiers weekend. Teams may sign up for a qualifier lobby that is the most convenient provided that the lobby is not full.
- A maximum of 8 teams may play in a qualifier lobby.
- Qualifier lobbies will be played on Head-to-Head instead of Team VS. The scoring system will still be ScoreV2. NF will be enforced on all maps.
- The qualifier lobby referee will invite the team captain at least 5 minutes before the lobby.
- Team captains will be sent invites to the lobby. It is the team captain's responsibility to invite their teammate.
• Should a team captain not be available for the qualifier lobby, the team captain should, if able, request the referee to send invites to a teammate. - Each lobby will run through the mappool once.
- If a team shows up to a lobby late, they may replay missed maps after the rest of the teams have finished the lobby, or they may reschedule to a different lobby.
- If a player disconnects during a map, they may replay missed maps after the rest of the teams have finished the lobby.
Bracket Stage
- All maps will be played with NF enforced with ScoreV2 enabled.
- The match referee will invite the team captain at least 5 minutes before the match.
- Team captains will be sent invites to the lobby. It is the team captain's responsibility to invite their teammate.
• Should a team captain not be available for the match, the team captain should, if able, request the referee to send invites to a teammate. Rules affecting the team captain also apply to the temporary captain. - If the team captain is not in the lobby five (5) minutes after the match start, the team loses their bans.
- If a team is unable to field two (2) players 10 minutes after the match start time, then the team forfeits the match.
- There will be no warmups. It is the responsibility of the players to be warmed up prior to the match.
- The referee will ask team captains to roll.
- The roll winner will have the option to choose to have either the pick order or the ban order. The roll loser will choose the order the roll winner does not choose.
- A team may not ban from the same mod pool in a row. This rule does not apply to nomod. Teams are allowed to pick from the same mod pool in a row.
- Teams will have one ban in the Round of 32 and Round of 16. Teams will have two bans in the remaining rounds. The ban order will be ABAB.
- Teams will have 90 seconds for picks and bans.
• If a team does not ban a map after the 90-second timer, they will lose that ban. The ban does not go to the other team.
• If a team does not pick a map after the 90-second timer, the referee shall randomly roll for the pick. - Teams will have 120 seconds to have their lineup ready for a map.
• If a team does not have both players in the lobby at the end of the 120-second timer after a map has been picked, the referee will give a 15-second extension for players to join. If a team still fails to field two players after the extension, the map point shall be given to the other team.
• It is the team's responsibility to inform the referee of ANY technical or connectivity issues should they occur during a match. - If a player disconnects from the match during the first 30 seconds of a map or a quarter of the way through the map, whichever happens first, that map will be replayed. This can only happen once per team per match.
• Should a disconnect occur and the map is replayed, the referee will give two (2) minutes to allow the disconnected player to reconnect to the lobby. Otherwise, a different team member may join instead of the disconnected player.
• If a map is not replayed and there is no known score from the disconnected player, their score will not count for the map.
• If a map is not replayed and there is a known score from the match lobby or other reliable means from the disconnected player, that score will be added to the team score. - Should a map end in a tie, the map shall be replayed with the original roster.
Freemod Rules
- Freemod maps require teams to have both players to take a mod.
- Allowed mods for freemod maps are Hidden, Hardrock, Easy, and Flashlight.
- Teams must have one player with Hidden, Easy, or Flashlight and one player with HardRock or HDHR.
- EZ has a 1.7x score multiplier, making a SS on a map with no spinners worth 850,000.
- The tiebreaker will be played on freemod. However, players are not required to take any mods on the tiebreaker.
- Where rules do not apply, common sense shall prevail. The tournament administration has the right to apply and enforce judgement where they see fit.
- The rules may be subject to change during the tournament for clarification and/or adjustments.
- Registrations: March 25 - April 9, 23:59 UTC
- One week buffer for screening
- Qualifiers: April 15 - April 16
- Round of 32: April 22 - April 23
- Round of 16: April 29 - April 30
- Quarterfinals: May 6 - May 7
- Semifinals: May 13 - May 14
- Finals: May 20 - May 21
- Grand Finals: May 27 - May 28
Round Information:
Qualifiers: 4 NM / 2 HD / 2 HR / 2 DT | NM1: 7.0*
Round of 32/16: Best of 9, 1 ban | 5 NM / 2 HD / 2 HR / 3 DT / 2 FM / 1 TB | NM1: 6.5* / 6.8*
Quarterfinals/Semifinals: Best of 11, 2 bans | 5 NM / 3 HD / 3 HR / 4 DT / 2 FM / 1 TB | NM1: 7.1* / 7.4*
Finals/Grand Finals: Best of 13, 2 bans | 6 NM / 3 HD / 3 HR / 4 DT / 2 FM / 1 TB | NM1: 7.7* / 8.0*
Note: The pooling team will try to balance the mappools as best as possible, but some niches will be slightly out of balance difficulty-wise from the rest of a stage's mappool.
Note: The listed star ratings are meant as a baseline and might not adequately reflect the difficulty of the tournament.
- First Place: 4 months of supporter per player, profile banner, profile badge (pending)
- Second Place: 2 months of supporter per player, profile banner
- Third Place: 1 month of supporter per player, profile banner
Host: 
Suicune3
Admins:
TheHunter1, 
M1keL
Spreadsheets:Suicune3
Graphics:Karasmic
Mappool Selectors:Suicune3
Playtesters:Suicune3, YoshiLover456, 
chiv, Retoree, Evan1, ampy, -Koda, 
Saiyku, AccNome, Cuckweezy
Referees:
P a t r i c k, 
DizzyH, 
f o f o, Aidown, 
Atipir, 
SSScotty, Feath3rblade, TheHunter1, 
-PeKoRa-, 
ShadeCegLgMn, moss-, 
Sugoi Sugoi, AccNome, -Hanamaru-
Streamers:Suicune3, 
oliebol, Atipir, VoidStar, ilw8, AccNome
Commentators:Suicune3, 
Vaf, 
Alpama, Tycani, VoidStar, Crystal Enjoyer, -Koda
We're always looking for more staff members to help run this tournament! If you're interested in reffing, streaming, or commentating, please DM Suicune3#4154 on Discord.
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If you believe there is an issue with the tournament that impacts the competitive integrity of the tournament, use the tournament report form (https://pif.ephemeral.ink/tournament-reports) to list your concerns with the Tournament Committee.