General Information

1. This is an auction style, country restricted tournament.
2. This is a 4v4, osu!standard double-elimination tournament for players from Australia and New Zealand.
3. If there is sufficient proof that a player is residing in Australia or New Zealand they are also eligible to play.
4. There will be 8 teams with no maximum team size.
5. After registrations end, captains will be chosen by staff to participate in the auction.
6. By signing up for this tournament, you agree to the possibility of being selected as a team captain.
7. Players must play in a 11-map qualifier pool to showcase their strengths to the captains.
8. Captains do not need to play qualifiers.
9. GFX, refs, commentators, and streamers are allowed to play.
10. All times displayed will be in AEST (UTC+10).

Schedule

1. Registration end on the 1st of June at 23:59 AEST.
2. Qualifiers begin on the 7th of June and end on the 8th of June.
3. The Auction will take place on the 14th or 15th of June.
4. Bracket will start on 21st of June with a new mappool being introduced each week.

Auction

1. If somehow you end up with only 2 players by the end of the auction you will play 2v3 or 3v4.
2. Captains will have 8000 starting credits to bid on players.
3. Starting bid for players is 100.
4. Bids can be increased by multiples of 100, up to a maximum of 5500.
5. Players will be brought up for auction at random, then captains will have 1 minute to bid.
6. All players who play qualifiers will be eligible to be drawn in the auction.
7. If a player does not get bid on, they will be available for auction after everyone else has been brought up.
8. Seeding in bracket stage will be the average seed of players. This means that matchups in bracket stage will depend on seeding.
9. Teams may change their captains for bracket stage if desired.

Qualifiers

1. Mappool will be played in order once from NM1 to DT2.
2. If a player disconnects before 30 seconds into the map:
   
   1. The player may replay the map after every map has been played.
   2. If more than two maps need to be replayed for a player, they may only choose two of the maps to be played.
3. If a player disconnects after 30 seconds into the map:
   
   1. If they are able to provide sufficient proof of their score, then their score will be counted as such.

Bracket

1. If a team does not have the adequate amount of players in the lobby after 10 minutes of the scheduled time, they will lose their bans for their upcoming match.
2. If a team does not have the adequate amount of players in the lobby after 15 minutes of the scheduled time, they will automatically forfeit the match.
3. The definition of an adequate amount of players is up for the referee to work out lmao.
4. Once both captains are in the lobby the match will begin by both captains rolling:
   
   1. The winner of the roll can choose either pick order or ban order
   2. The loser choosing the order of the other one.
5. Ban order is ABBA.
6. After rolls are done, captains will choose warmups if they so desire.
   
   1. Warmups must not exceed 4:00 of drain time in length and must not be from the pool the match is being played on.
7. After warmups have concluded, the captain with the first pick will select the map they wish to play and subsequent picks will happen in alternating order.
8. All matches will be played in Team VS with ScoreV2 with NF enforced.
9. The use of async lobbies will not be allowed.
10. If a player disconnects before 30 seconds into the map, the map will be aborted and restarted.
11. If a player disconnects after 30 seconds into the map, no abort will be given. If the player who disconnected is able to provide sufficient proof of their score, then their score will be counted as such.
12. A 2 minute timer will be enforced if players start taking too long. Referees may choose to use it regardless.

Freemod Rules

1. All teams must have a minimum of 3 total mods and have at least 1 HD/EZ/FL and 1 HR/HDHR
2. As such examples of allowed free mod compositions include:
   
   1. 1x HD, 1x HR, 1x HR
   2. 1x HDHR, 1x HD, 1x NM
   3. 1x EZ, 1x HDHR, 1x NM
   4. 1x EZFL, 1x HR, 1x NM
3. If a team has managed to have only 2 players, their team must have at minimum 2 total mods and at least 1 HD and 1 HR player as above.