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Organizers:Antalf, Logan636, Kaito-kun, Dynascape
Map Selection Team:
Map Pool Selectors: Logan636, Dynascape, -mint-
Map Creators: TBA
Map Selection Testers: TBA
Referees: TBA
Streamers: TBA
Commentators: TBA
Designers: BKYeriko
Server Moderators: Kei-Hikai

In order to be eligible for this tournament:
1. You must be within the osu!mania 4 key rank range of #7,500-40,000 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. In order for this tournament to be fairly aimed toward a demographic of newer tournament players, we will not accept registrations from players who have achieved high placements in recent rank restricted tournaments. This includes
- Players who have finished in a top 6 team placement in any edition of the 4 Digit MWC
- Players who have finished in a top 3 team placement in Dynascape's Intermediate Cup
- Players who have finished in a top 12 team placement in Mania Key Clash Cup

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

Registration Form
Discord Server

As you will read in the "Prizes" section below, WOGS2025 plans to award the tournament winner a unique Profile Badge. In order to make this happen, this tournament must meet the requirement of sending osu!’s internal tournament team 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 WOGS2025. 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 WOGS2025!

QUALIFIER STAGE

The first weekend of tournament play will be the Qualifier Stage in order to cut down to the 64 players that will advance into the Round of 64, as well as to rank said players in approximate order of skill. There will be a total of four 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: Stamina Rice
Stage 2: Technical Rice
Stage 3: Long Notes
Stage 4: Hybrid Wildcard

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 player will play these four maps in a scheduled lobby, going in Stage 1-4 order.

Players will be ranked based on the “score rating” of their qualifier performances, meaning that each player's performance on each of the four qualifier maps will be ranked compared to every other player and the ranks that each player achieves on these maps will then be added up. The players 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 player's qualifier performance is ranked based on how well they perform compared to every other participating player.

BRACKET STAGE

After the Qualifier Stage, the remaining 64 players will be placed into a double-elimination bracket in a predetermined order where Rank 1 faces Rank 64, Rank 2 faces Rank 63, etc.
(This follows the formula where A and B are placed to face in RO64 if "Player A Rank" + "Player B Rank" = 65)

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 64: Best-of-7, first to 4 points wins. Map pool containing 10 freemod maps and 1 tiebreaker map.
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.

1. Players will be notified of their match via ping on Discord by the referee of their match 30 minutes before the match is scheduled to commence. At this time, players shall give the link of one map they wish to play as warmup to the referee of their match. This map must be an osu!mania 4k map and must be no longer than 4 minutes. Referees may refuse a player’s warmup and demand another one from them if the map does not meet these guidelines or is found to be offensive. Failure to provide a warmup to the referee at this time may result in the player skipping their warmup map.
2. Players will be invited to their match lobby by a referee no less than 5 minutes before the match is scheduled to commence.
3. When both players are present in the lobby, the match will commence by each player playing their selected warmup map.
4. After warmups, both players will !roll in the lobby chat. The player who rolls the higher number is the "Roll Winner" and the one who rolls the lower number is the "Roll Loser". This will decide the order of protects, bans, and picks as laid out below:
   - Roll Winner will choose one map from the freemod pool to Protect from being banned
   - Roll Loser will choose one map from the freemod pool to Protect from being banned
   - Roll Loser will choose one map from the freemod pool to Ban
   - Roll Winner will choose one map from the freemod pool to Ban
   - Roll Winner will choose one map from the freemod pool to Pick
5. Players will have 2 minutes to pick a beatmap and 2 minutes to get ready.
6. After each map concludes, the player with the highest score on the map will be awarded one point.
   Picks will alternate between players until a winner is decided by being the first to get the required amount of points to win that round.
7. If both players tie at match point, the tiebreaker map will be played, the player who wins the tiebreaker map will win the match.

1. The maximum time a match can be postponed due to a player being absent is 10 minutes. If a player is not present and unresponsive for 10 minutes following the official match start time, the match will be counted as a forfeit. In the case of both players being absent at the scheduled match time, the match will be counted as a forfeit and the player with the higher seed will advance.
2. Matches will be played head-to-head mode with Score v2
3. Player 1 will occupy slot 1 and player 2 occupy slot 2
4. Allowed mods in the freemod pool are Hidden, FadeIn, Flashlight, and Mirror. The tiebreaker map is also played under freemod conditions.
5. Players have a maximum of 3 minutes after the conclusion of the previous map to pick another map from the freemod pool to play (and are expected to pick in 2 minutes or less). If a player takes longer than 3 minutes to do so, a random beatmap from the freemod pool will be picked for them by the match referee.
6. If a player disconnects during a match, their score is counted as a failed score. However, if this disconnect happens before 30 seconds of the map is played, the referee can decide to let the players rematch.
7. If player scores are an exact tie at the conclusion of a map, the map will be replayed.
   
   
   Feel free to ask a host about any questions you have regarding rules or the tournament in general!