Welcome to MonkeCup!

My name is Yolomonkey, this is now the 4th iteration of MonkeCup. Due to high ammounts of people joining in the last 2 iterations, I've decided to make this one a full 4v4 tournament with a minimum team size of 4 and a maximum team size of 8. Use the links above to register your team or as a free agent. Staff is also extremely welcome. This time we're going to attempt to make the tournament badged so let's see how that goes.

The tournament is a standard 4v4 Double Elimination, meaning you need to lose twice to get eliminated, and with Score V2 and NF enforced. The rank range this time is 10.000-99.999, letting anybody who is 5 digit to attend. All of this will be explained in more detail below. Team size this time is a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 people.

The main focus, as always, is to provide fun and challenging maps and not always adhering to the generic style of pooling. I wish you all best of luck and have fun!

If you are a mapper and would like to map for this tournament, join the discord and message me, so we can discuss the details.

1. Registration period: 7/5 - 28/5
2. Players must be within the rank range when the registration period ends.
3. Rank range: 10.000-99.999, there will be absolutely no buffer. Players will not be allowed to participate in the tourney even if they are outside of the rank range by a single place. There will be no exceptions. BWS applies
4. BWS Rank = rank^(0,9937^(badges^2)/1
5. 4v4 Double Elimination
6. Team captains and free agents Must be in the discord. It is advised that all team members are in the discord as well, since we'll be providing separate channels for each team, but it's not a requirement.
7. The tournament is scheduled according to UTC+0. Please keep that in mind when scheduling.

Qualifier procedures

The qualifier pools will be released on the Sunday before the qualifer's weekend. Soon after, a lobby schedule will be released and players will be able to schedule for one of the lobbies. Extra lobbies will be available but they will not be approved unless scheduled at least 12 hours beforehand. This is to make sure, that we can find a referee for that match.

The teams will be notified in discord by their lobby's referee 15 minutes before
their scheduled time, and send invites to the lobby soon after. Please make sure that ou are warmed up for the qualifiers since there will be no warmups done during quals. As long as a team has 4 registered players present, they can play the qualifiers. If not enough players gather within 10 minutes after the lobby begins, the teams are free to reschedule at the discretion of the tournament staff. Qualifiers on Monday will only be allowed until 12 UTC. This is to ensure that the qualifiers results can be posted in time so that the bracket stage can begin. Teams that fail to join their qualifier lobby after 10 minutes will no longer be able to participate in that lobby. They can reschedule but repeated fails to gather members on time will result in disqualification if the staff feel like its being abused.

If anybody from a team is disconnected during the first 30 seconds of a map, they will be allowed to retry after all maps have been played through.

Each team gets 1 try for qualifers. Once all teams have played, the top 32 teams will will move on to the bracket stage. It's important to note that RO64 is not planned but it might be implemented if the hosts deem it necessary.

Match Procedures

Mappools will be released on the Mondays after the matches. Schedules will be released shortly after the mappools. Teams will have until 12 hours before their match to reschedule if the default schedule does not work for them. Not rescheduling in time may result in the reschedule being denied. This is, again, to give staff time to find a referee for your match. Ofc last 30min or 1h reschedules may be an exception to this rule if not abused. Reschedules require both teams to agree to the new time, this will be proven in discord with a screenshot.

Please note that async matches or self reffing is not allowed under any circumstances. If a new time can't be agreed upon by both teams, then the default schedule will apply.

Teams will be notified in discord by their referee 15 minutes before the match and will receive invites to the match lobby shortly after. If a team is 5 minutes late, warmups will not be played, for 10 minutes, the roll is forfeited and for 15 minutes, the team is disqualified.

If a match begins on time, the players will play warmups if they choose. A warmup map cannot be longer than 4 minutes. After warm-ups, the referee will use !mp clearhost and the match will begin.

Team captains will roll to choose the pick or ban order. Example: Team A rolls a higher number, they get to choose between 1st pick/2nd pick or 1st ban/ 2nd ban. If team A decides to choose ban order, Team B will choose pick order. Same logic applies for the other way around.

Double picks are not allowed, with NM being the sole exception to that rule. NF will be enforced.

The referee will use the !mp timer 120 command every time a team is picking a map. If a team fails to pick the map within the given time, they forfeit their pick and the opposing team gets to pick. This is to avoid stalling. After a map is picked, the timer will be reset and teams will have 2 minutes to sort their lineup.

Freemod rules

1. EZ has a multiplier of 1.7x.
2. Teams must have at least 3 modded slots. At least 1 HR(HD) and at least 1 HD(EZ), 1 slot is allowed to be NM.
3. spunout, relax, autopilot etc. are not allowed

Tourney mappool and point system

1. Quals 5NM|2HD|2HR|2DT|1FM SR 6.2*
2. RO32 5NM|2HD|2HR|3DT|2FM|TB (BO7 - 1 ban per team) SR 5.8*
3. RO16 5NM|2HD|2HR|3DT|2FM|TB (BO9 - 1 ban per team) SR 6.0*
4. QF 6NM|3HD|3HR|3DT|3FM|TB (BO11 - 2 bans per team) SR 6.2*
5. SF 6NM|3HD|3HR|3DT|3FM|TB (BO11 - 2 bans per team) SR 6.4*
6. F 6NM|3HD|3HR|4DT|3FM|TB (BO13 - 2 bans per team) SR 6.6*
7. GF 6NM|3HD|3HR|4DT|3FM|TB (BO13 - 2 bans per team) SR 6.8*

TL;DR

1. Warmups: maximum of 4 minutes. Skipped if a team is 5min late
2. Highest roll chooses pick OR ban order
3. No double picks except for NM
4. Reschedules must be done 12h prior
5. 5mins late = no warmups; 10mins late = roll forfeit; 15min late = wbd
6. Any kind of toxicity or misconduct by players, staff or spectators will absolutely NOT be tolerated! Osu!, Twitch and Discord TOS must be followed. Failure to comply will result in actions being taken to preserve the integrity of the tournament.

Sadly we won't be able to offer any supporter rewards or anything of the sort right off the bat because hosts are broke (sad, I know). But any and all donations towards the prize pool are welcome and appreciated. Join the discord and contact one of the hosts if you'd like to help out. Or if you'd like to do it anonymously, you can donate to the tourney's paypal. Any leftover donations will be forwarded to the next iteration of MonkeCup

1ST PLACE
official badge (if not approved, you get a custom one for your profile) + 2 months supporter
2ND PLACE
custom team banner + 1 month supporter
3RD PLACE
custom team banner

Thank you so much to Digoco for donating and making this possible.

Any changes to the tournament prize pool will be announced in the discord channel and updated here on the forum post. Thank you in advance to anybody that decides to help.

Staff are the most vital part of a functioning tournament. All people listed below are amazing people who are willing to set some of their own personal time aside to help a stranger host a tournament. This list will constantly be updated as staff come and go and as an extra thank you, staff will receive a custom staff banner as a form of appreciation this year.

Host:『 yolomonkey』
Co-Host:『 Rosiee』
GFX:『 Rosiee』『 kms 10112023』
Sheeter:『 yolomonkey』『 Rosiee』『 moss-』『 MintLeaf』
Mappooler:『 yolomonkey』『 Rosiee』『 GIGA PESCADO』『 careIess』『 Emilia-』『 tarragon111』『 hrsn』『 cyclone290』『 wilsontehdog』『 Sagyn』『 MintLeaf』
Mapper:『 careIess』『 tarragon111』『 Anderwear』『 quantumvortex』『 Eunha』『 PipeOrgan2』『 MintLeaf』
Tester:『 GIGA PESCADO』『 careIess』『 Emilia-』『 Heavymetal4life』『 tarragon111』『 Anderwear』『 Jazzercize』『 RiceballUwU』『 hrsn』『 Eunha』『 shizukue』『 MatalisFanGirl』『 Sagyn』『 TheBear53』『 DragonMage』『 Emerald Ages』『 MintLeaf』『 OMGPopx』『 megahello』『 Joost』『 Dability』
Referee:『 yolomonkey』『 Rosiee』『 careIess』『 moss-』『 Heavymetal4life』『 Shauns』『 Anderwear』『 hrsn』『 SneakyDingus』『 Koeyk』『 Infinitstart』『 Sagyn』『 DragonMage』『 Emerald Ages』『 Dability』
Streamer:『 yolomonkey』『 careIess』『 hrsn』『 Iskas_』
Commentator:『 yolomonkey』『 Rosiee』『 GIGA PESCADO』『 careIess』『 hrsn』『 SneakyDingus』『 Iskas_』『 wilsontehdog』『 MinusBlak3』『 Koo998』『 Onigirya』

If you would like to join the staff team, please use the link at the top of the post to register and join the discord.