Welcome to Nouille, and the Devotion Noodle Cart.
Dream and illusion intertwine in this inverted reality,
where one needs the technique and wits to survive.
Do you have what it takes to overcome Leon's challenges as his partner?
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osu!mania Long Note Tournament is back for its 4th edition, with intense competition among the best osu!mania LN players and a journey through noodles and ordeals!
Screening Phase: : 19 August to 6 September 2025
Qualifier Showcase: 7 September 2025 (21:00 UTC)
Qualifiers Stage: 8 September - 14 September 2025
Round of 64: 15 September - 21 September 2025
Round of 32: 22 September - 28 September 2025
Round of 16: 29 September - 5 October 2025
Quarterfinals: 6 October - 12 October 2025
Semifinals: 13 October - 19 October 2025
Finals: 20 October - 26 October 2025
Grand Finals: 27 October - 2 November 2025
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Dates may be brought forward or delayed depending on screening results, and other potential impediments to the running of the tournament.
Interested in joining the tournament as a player?
Simply sign up by filling out the Player Registration Form, and join the Discord server where the tournament and all its player correspondence will take place.
Due to the confidential nature of some content in this tournament, Mappoolers and Mappers have been fixed prior to signups phase. If you would like to join the staff team as a Referee, Streamer or Commentator, consider filling out the Staff Registration Form to join the team! An extra helping hand is never too many.
Simply sign up by filling out the Player Registration Form, and join the Discord server where the tournament and all its player correspondence will take place.
- To sign up, players must do so through the website and must be in the discord server. Failure to do so will count your registration as incomplete and not eligible to participate.
- Players who sign up must not be restricted from official tournaments at the time of registration. Those who are restricted must successfully appeal to remove account restrictions before signing up.
- Players' displayed Discord usernames must be the same as their osu! username during the entire duration of the tournament.
Due to the confidential nature of some content in this tournament, Mappoolers and Mappers have been fixed prior to signups phase. If you would like to join the staff team as a Referee, Streamer or Commentator, consider filling out the Staff Registration Form to join the team! An extra helping hand is never too many.
- Players who are participating in the tournament will not be allowed to sign up as a Referee.
- Players who are eliminated in a particular stage of the tournament can volunteer to be a Replayer for the stage after their elimination.
The maps in this tournament will only consist of Long Note (LN) oriented maps, and cover 4 sub-categories of LNs which are used to categorize all mappools after this stage. See the graphic below for more information!
Qualifiers
After the Screening Phase has concluded, players eligible to play will participate in the tournament.
In the first weekend, players will play 7 qualifier maps in sequence up to 2 times, in a scheduled lobby (they may choose not to play the 2nd time if desired.)
Qualifiers mappool details
The 7 qualifier maps will cover sub-categories of LNs which are used to categorize all mappools after this stage:
Seeding calculation
This tournament will make use of the Average Placement method to seed players.
In the qualification process, every player who signs up has to schedule for a lobby during the Qualfiers Stage, and play through all 7 qualifier maps in the mappool at least once, and up to 2 times.
After completing the scheduled lobby, each player will have 1-2 scores recorded for each of the 7 qualifier maps. For each of the maps, the higher score of the two is taken and is used to provide the player's placement for each individual map.
After all players have completed their qualifier lobbies, each player's Average Placement will be obtained by dividing their Sum Placement by the number of maps in the qualifier mappool. This Average Placement will be used to cut down to the top 64 players, who will advance to the Bracket Elimination stage. Every other player is eliminated from the tournament.
After the Screening Phase has concluded, players eligible to play will participate in the tournament.
In the first weekend, players will play 7 qualifier maps in sequence up to 2 times, in a scheduled lobby (they may choose not to play the 2nd time if desired.)
Qualifiers mappool details
The 7 qualifier maps will cover sub-categories of LNs which are used to categorize all mappools after this stage:
- Stage 1: Early-game Releases
- Stage 2: Early to Mid-game Wildcard (Short Duration)
- Stage 3: Pure Density
- Stage 4: Mid-game Technical
- Stage 5: Late-game Releases
- Stage 6: Mid to Late-game Wildcard (Long Duration)
- Stage 7: Speed Density
Seeding calculation
This tournament will make use of the Average Placement method to seed players.
In the qualification process, every player who signs up has to schedule for a lobby during the Qualfiers Stage, and play through all 7 qualifier maps in the mappool at least once, and up to 2 times.
After completing the scheduled lobby, each player will have 1-2 scores recorded for each of the 7 qualifier maps. For each of the maps, the higher score of the two is taken and is used to provide the player's placement for each individual map.
After all players have completed their qualifier lobbies, each player's Average Placement will be obtained by dividing their Sum Placement by the number of maps in the qualifier mappool. This Average Placement will be used to cut down to the top 64 players, who will advance to the Bracket Elimination stage. Every other player is eliminated from the tournament.
Bracket Matches
After Qualifier Stage, the top 64 players will be arranged into a standard Double Elimination Bracket, where the highest seeded player will face the lowest seeded player, 2nd highest faces 2nd lowest, and so on. A player will be eliminated from the tournament after losing 2 matches in the bracket stage.
After Qualifier Stage, the top 64 players will be arranged into a standard Double Elimination Bracket, where the highest seeded player will face the lowest seeded player, 2nd highest faces 2nd lowest, and so on. A player will be eliminated from the tournament after losing 2 matches in the bracket stage.
Pre-match Procedure
- Players will be informed of their match by an assigned referee 30 minutes before their matches commence, through a ping on Discord.
- Players will be provided with an invite to the lobby hosted by the referee 5 minutes before their match commences. Players are required to be present in the lobby before the stipulated match time. Warmups will not be allowed for this tournament.
Mid-Match Procedure
- After both players have joined the lobby, both players will run the !roll command in the lobby chat.
- The player with the higher roll will pick first, and choose whether to protect first. If they choose to pick first, then they will ban second. The player with the lower roll receives the opposite of this.
- Following the ban/pick procedure, both players will alternate in picks, and play the picked map simultaneously. The player who obtains a higher score will win a point, and this process repeats until one of the players wins the required number of points to claim the win for the match.
- The required number of points to win the match varies for each stage.
- Players are encouraged to use their timeout only when an urgent situation or personal condition calls for it, and not to stall for time.
- Should there be a tie in map score between the 2 players, the result will be nullified and the map will be played once more to determine who gets the point.
Mod Configurations
- The score system used for all matches in this tournament will be Score V2.
- All maps are played with FreeMod turned ON. Visual mods such as Mirror, Hidden, Fade-In, Flashlight, and any combination of these mods are allowed. You are also allowed, but not forced, to play with NoFail.
Punctuality
- Players are required to arrive for their match before the stipulated time for their match. Otherwise, a 10-minute grace timer will be applied by the appointed referee for the match.
- If the player fails to arrive at their match before this timer runs out, the match will be considered as a win by default to the other player.
- If the player arrives at their match during this grace period, the time remaining on the timer will be brought forward to the ban/pick proceeding of the match (If the player was late for 3 minutes, they would only have 7 minutes of timeout for the main match).
Ban/Pick Procedures
- Players will be given 2 minutes to roll and perform their first ban/picks. Subsequently, players will have 2 minutes to pick a map and get ready to play the map.
- If a player fails to adhere to the timer to ban/pick, the referee will choose a map by random to be picked in place of the player, using the !roll command.
- On the second and subsequent occurrences, a point will be automatically awarded to the other player.
Disconnection
- If a player is disconnected from a map within the first 30 seconds of gameplay, they can ask for the map to be aborted and replayed.
- This is only available once per match for each player. Subsequent disconnects will give a point to the opponent and use up the remainder of the 10 minute grace period.
- In the event a player is unable to return to the lobby before the grace period ends, the match will be considered a win to the other player.
- In the event both players are disconnected, the player whose grace period runs out first will concede the match to the opponent.
- In the event both players run out of grace period simultaneously, the winner will be the player with the higher qualifier seed.
General Conduct
- Every staff and player must respect each other and follow the osu! community rules, no discussion about sensitive topics (for example religion, politics), and anything that could be offensive to others.
- Keep the competition and atmosphere friendly amongst each other, whether it is in the match, in the Twitch chatroom, or on the Discord server. Tournaments are always for us to come together as a community and not engage in pointless arguments.
- in the event a player or staff member is found to have conducted themselves inappropriately towards anyone in the server, said individual can be subject to timeouts, warnings and bans from the tournament and its affiliated twitch channel based on the severity of the incident.
- We're all here to have fun and have put a lot of effort into this tournament. Let's appreciate everyone's contributions, even if things sometimes go differently than planned. If you have any suggestions for improving the tournament, please feel free to share them in the appropriate channels on the Discord server. We may not always be able to implement them in short notice, but we are always open to your feedback and ideas.
The titular town of Nouille had always been known for being a foodie's paradise. From egg fried rice and ramen to other exotic foods and sweets, this city was the birthground of every food business well known in Zeon.
However, you slowly realize life in Nouille is not what it seems. People live in fear of their personal security, either from the teeming criminal life, or the grasp of the legend one may know as the Illusory Executioner.
What adventures and ordeals await Leon and the part-timers in this vibrant yet dangerous city?
However, you slowly realize life in Nouille is not what it seems. People live in fear of their personal security, either from the teeming criminal life, or the grasp of the legend one may know as the Illusory Executioner.
What adventures and ordeals await Leon and the part-timers in this vibrant yet dangerous city?
Event Details
Ordeal In Illusion is a leaderboard event that runs tangent to the tournament's schedule, available for everyone to participate!
Leaderboard Phase
After mappool showcase every week starting the Round of 64, original songs released in the week's mappool will receive a leaderboard on the Statistics sheet, allowing both players and spectators to compete for the best score on our originals.
Before the start of the next round's mappool showcase, leaderboards for the week's originals will be frozen. Tickets are then awarded to every participant who submitted scores to the leaderboard, with the number of tickets awarded increasing with their ranking on the leaderboard:
At the end of the tournament, Tickets earned by all participants are tabulated and 3 Tickets will be drawn during a livestream. The owners of these Tickets will win a part of the community-donated OII prize pool!
Ordeal In Illusion is a leaderboard event that runs tangent to the tournament's schedule, available for everyone to participate!
Leaderboard Phase
After mappool showcase every week starting the Round of 64, original songs released in the week's mappool will receive a leaderboard on the Statistics sheet, allowing both players and spectators to compete for the best score on our originals.
Before the start of the next round's mappool showcase, leaderboards for the week's originals will be frozen. Tickets are then awarded to every participant who submitted scores to the leaderboard, with the number of tickets awarded increasing with their ranking on the leaderboard:
- 1st Place: 5 Tickets
- 2nd Place: 4 Tickets
- 3rd Place: 3 Tickets
- 4th - 7th Place: 2 Tickets
- Everyone else who participates: 1 Ticket
At the end of the tournament, Tickets earned by all participants are tabulated and 3 Tickets will be drawn during a livestream. The owners of these Tickets will win a part of the community-donated OII prize pool!
How to Participate?
To participate in Ordeal In Illusion, you must have a registered osu! account, be logged in and playing on your Stable client.
After the mappool showcase held on Monday 14UTC+0 every week, please download and play the maps associated to the original songs just released, to obtain the best score you can muster before the next mappool showcase on the next Monday, 14UTC+0.
After obtaining a score you are satisfied with, head to the channel #ordeal-in-illusion to interact with the bot stationed in the channel and upload a osr file for your best score on the original song.
Players are allowed to submit an unlimited number of replays. However, do note that your best scores will only be refreshed in the leaderboards every 24 hours.
To participate in Ordeal In Illusion, you must have a registered osu! account, be logged in and playing on your Stable client.
After the mappool showcase held on Monday 14UTC+0 every week, please download and play the maps associated to the original songs just released, to obtain the best score you can muster before the next mappool showcase on the next Monday, 14UTC+0.
After obtaining a score you are satisfied with, head to the channel #ordeal-in-illusion to interact with the bot stationed in the channel and upload a osr file for your best score on the original song.
Players are allowed to submit an unlimited number of replays. However, do note that your best scores will only be refreshed in the leaderboards every 24 hours.
Hosts
HowToPlayLN • 
Polytetral
Mapsetters
[Crz]Crysarlene • 
ImperialTrinity • 
Paturages • 
Yuiesta
Mappers
Koyori Chan • Ainer • 
Akatsumi Chan • 
anatharax • 
Begin • Castella • cherrychou • 
DannyPX • elexire • 
epic man 2 • EpsilonMaiagare • FelixSpade • gzdongsheng • Hylotl • 
Micleak • Muses • mystV • MyZterioN- • Saemitsu • TheFunk • Toaph Daddy
Playtesters/Replayers
-Yubi- • Koiidex • 
LeMarcinho • LivelyPeninsula • Sunyata • Toxic Scent
Referees
akace100 • CapooFanboy • Dynascape • EpsilonMaiagare • 
ERA Kaeseorin • 
ERA Sunny • Koyori Chan • LeMarcinho • 
Logg45vs • Normiplier • Paturages • 
Pilot_BFFRI • Polytetral • Poity • Rush_FTK • SunApple • 
TheHunter1 • trooperr • 
YonGin
Streamers
CapooFanboy • EpsilonMaiagare • Fyl • konkawe • Logg45vs • 
myucchii •
Nopekjk • Paturages • Reyi • Rush_FTK • SunApple • Yuiesta • Znow
Commentators
-Nightkore • 
[-Leon-] • Cryolien • Dynascape • epic man 2 • ERA Sunny • Itawachi • IvanOfficial • MashedPotato • myucchii • Paturages • Polytetral • PotassiumF • Rush_FTK • Sparky • SunApple • YonGin • Znow
Designers
Melancholicc • nayuu • Normiplier • OsuMe65 • Polytetral • Sakura006 • Secondoverthree • yukina meng • Z419
Developers
Nopekjk • yhsphd
Statistician
EpsilonMaiagare • Yuiesta
Wiki Editor
Rush_FTK
Special Thanks
arcwinolivirus as "Leon" • 
Ethereal_Winter as "Eizou"
*this list of staff is subject to change.
Mapsetters
Mappers
Playtesters/Replayers
Referees
Streamers
Commentators
Designers
Developers
Statistician
Wiki Editor
Special Thanks
*this list of staff is subject to change.
1st Place: o!mLN4 Profile Badge (pending), 40% of Regular Prize Pool
2nd Place: 25% of Regular Prize Pool
3rd Place: 20% of Regular Prize Pool
4th to 6th Place: 5% of Regular Prize Pool
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Ordeal In Illusion Prizes
Lucky Draw Winners (3): 33% of OII Prize Pool
The Regular Prize Pool starts at 450USD, while the OII Prize Pool will start at 100USD. Community donations will contribute to both Tournament and OII Prize Pools in the ratio 70/30 respectively.
Consider contributing to the prize pools through our Ko-fi link!
https://tcomm.hivie.tn/reports/create
