1. 1v1 competition with a Judge present to record scores.
2. No mods allowed except for No Video.
3. IMPORTANT: Players MUST save replays after EVERY song. To do so, simply press F2 at the results screen. If an issue arises, a player may be asked by a judge to submit his or her replay. Failure to do so will result in a DISQUALIFICATION.

1. High seed gets first song choice, low seed selects the 2nd song.
2. In the result of a tie, the judge will select the 3rd song. Choice will always be highest difficulty available on the song.
3. Songs must be selected from a list generated by the Judges.

1. Victory is determined by Score ALONE.
2. In the event a player fails a song, the other player is the winner.
3. In the event BOTH players fail, the highest score at the end of the song wins. Even if you fail, PLAY UNTIL THE END.

1. Matches are DOUBLE ELIMINATION.
2. Upon losing a match, players are placed in the "Loser's Bracket."
3. Winner of the "Loser's Bracket" will have to defeat the undefeated champion of the "Winner's Bracket" in 2 separate matches to be considered the overall champion.

• To be determined.

• To be determined.

1. To prevent any foul play, any disconnection will result in a LOSS FOR THE CURRENT SONG.
2. Make sure your connection is stable before attempting to play.

1. If necessary, Judges will be hand picked by Cyclone and Gabi.
   (We may be able to do this ourselves, but we'll wait and see how many participants there will be.)

Cyclone wrote:

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Lybydose wrote:

There should be a "minimum difficulty" allowed when choosing the difficulty from your opponent's song. This way people won't get any "bright ideas" to pick some 1 star easy and win from spinner bonus alone (or SS everything and tie).

A player CANNOT select an individual song twice for the ENTIRE tournament. A song selected in round 1 cannot be chosen in round 2, for example. (or 3, etc.)

How are matches made? What happens when a victory is made? Single elimination? Double elimination? This is highly important!

1. Matches are DOUBLE ELIMINATION.
2. Upon losing a match, players are placed in the "Loser's Bracket."
3. Winner of the "Loser's Bracket" will have to defeat the undefeated champion of the "Winner's Bracket" in 2 separate matches to be considered the overall champion

Rules look nice so far.

Can two plays be made using the same song in the same round by two different pairs? E.g. players A and B play Kanbu and players C and D play Kanbu on round 1. (Concurrency may be an issue, i.e. if multiple matches are being played at one time.)

I suggest a check for storyboard and skin tampering (e.g. removal). Not sure how this could be accomplished easily.

May I suggest replays MUST be submitted by each participant? This will help prevent cheating.

1v1 competition with a Judge present to record scores.

Cyclone wrote:

May I suggest replays MUST be submitted by each participant? This will help prevent cheating.

The judge is present for this very reason.

1v1 competition with a Judge present to record scores.

Strager wrote:

I suggest a check for storyboard and skin tampering (e.g. removal). Not sure how this could be accomplished easily.

Cyclone wrote:

Gabi and I will be in charge of the tournament, however there are some issues that need to be taken care of on the developmental side of things before we can run this.

Cyclone wrote:

That is indeed a good point. What should the minimum difficulty be when selecting a song? Should it go by Star rating alone, or by the name of the difficulty itself?

ignorethis wrote:

I suggest that certain maps with too high difficulties should not be picked. Take kanbu as an example, we know that some players have practised hard to get high scores, while most people have not. If one player is faced with another practised player, it'll be a bit unfair. Same for WIWIM, marisa, etc.

Maps like Justice to Believe are ok, because no one is required to be specially trained for playing well.

Doomsday93 wrote:

odds are they'll pick an easier difficulty to throw their opponent off or something.

Daru wrote:

Since star rating is a constant throughout all songs (whereas difficulty name can vary), I think we should use that. Also, if both players agree to a lower-starred song, then it should be allowed, but if one player objects to a difficulty that is below the minimum star requirement, then the difficulty will have to be raised. This is opposed to, if the song is above the minimum star requirement, it cannot be objected to.

Cyclone wrote:

@Strager
@STRAGER
@sTRAGER

Cyclone wrote:

How about we set the bare minimum to 3 stars, unless agreed upon by BOTH players. With this, no mapsets with ALL difficulties under 3 stars can be selected.

Discuss please.

Cyclone wrote:

How about we set the bare minimum to 3 stars, unless agreed upon by BOTH players. With this, no mapsets with ALL difficulties under 3 stars can be selected.
Discuss please.

gopice wrote:

This is because the the star rating overestimates the influence by the overall difficulty setting and doesn't take
spacing into account.

gopice wrote:

Like I said earlier couldn't you just ask players to send chosen mapsets beforehand and ban certain difficulties?

strager wrote:

You obviously don't understand how the star rating is derived.

strager wrote:

It's better to have set rules than make a million exceptional cases.

Cyclone wrote:

How about we (the judges) post which songs are allowed each round, listing any limitations to them, such as which difficulties are allowed. We'll be sure to pick plenty based on how many participants there are per round (I'd say like 50 songs for a round of 64 players)

Cyclone wrote:

After talking to Gabi, we've come up with this:

How about we (the judges) post which songs are allowed each round, listing any limitations to them, such as which difficulties are allowed. We'll be sure to pick plenty based on how many participants there are per round (I'd say like 50 songs for a round of 64 players)

With this, the "opponent picks difficulty" rule is abolished, and everything is fair game on the list.


Discuss.

Cyclone wrote:

Song Selection:

1. High seed gets first song choice, low seed selects the 2nd song.
2. In the result of a tie, the judge will select the 3rd song. Choice will always be highest difficulty available on the song.
3. Songs must be selected from a list generated by the Judges.

Lucidity wrote:

Will difficulties such as kanbu's insane be excluded from the tournament then? If not, then you might want to consider allowing players to play an easier difficulty if both agree.

Hanyuu wrote:

Also you need to create a rule about match finding. in the tag tournament it was a problem not only for the players but also a problem for gabi to organize matches. that was the greates problem for everyone. make a strict rule or this will take months again

Derekku Chan wrote:

Maybe this will give me motivation to get a new computer finally... I really don't trust my laptop enough for multi... (I hardly trust it in solo orz)