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Introduction
Welcome to AxS, CCTournament’s pride and the biggest community driven osu!Catch tournament.
Just as previous year, we the staff shall try to make this tournament one of the most joyful experiences for you, the players. It was thanks to you that previous year’s tournament was such a success and we are striving towards an even greater tournament this year.
Whether you have never heard of this tournament before, or played previous year, have a look down and see what you can expect. And hopefully we can expect you on the playing field once the matches commence!
About
The full name of the tournament is “Accuracy x Score osu!Catch Tournament”, in short “AxS”. You can participate as a team of six players while only three players can participate in a match. The match will be a 3 versus 3, this can NOT be changed. This means you can have a maximum of three back up players.
The players can be from any country, meaning anyone is able to join your team as long as they agree with it. While we allow people from every country in your team, try to get people in your team around the same time zone to avoid scheduling issues.
This tournament is different than your mainstream tournaments. In this tournament, accuracy has a huge impact on the final score. Your team will be divided in 2 groups.
Two of the three members will serve as the "score" and the other player will serve as the "accuracy". Further information can be found in the heading "Roles, Score Calculations and Winning conditions".
Rules
General rules
- The score used in this tournament will be ScoreV1. We tried to mess around with both score systems and we've decided to stick with ScoreV1 as we liked the outcome more
- Teams will be matched up through seeding in the group stage
- If the team is 15 minutes late for their match, they will be disqualified for that match
- If your team does not contain enough players to play the match (three players), the opposing team will advance to the next
- Please refrain from using offensive words in your team name
- Commentators aren't allowed to bad-mouth players in any given scenario, if they still do they WILL be kicked out of the commentating team and will not be allowed back in
- Rescheduling a match is allowed until 3 days after the schedule has been released. Matches will NOT be rescheduled after this date in any given scenario
- The accuracy player of the teams have to sit in the First or Fourth slot of the multiplayer room depending on what team you are. This spot will be for the accuracy player, when the map has started the accuracy player is definitive
- If the accuracy player disconnects from the game, his/her accuracy will be changed to a static value of 80%
- If a score player disconnects from the game, his/her score will still be accounted for in the final calculation; no changes will be made to his/her score
- You cannot nullify a beatmap for any reason
- Failing a beatmap still makes the score you got valid (even if you are not alive at the end of a song)
- If the whole team dies in a match, the opposing team will win by default
- You are allowed to ban 2 maps per match per team, meaning a total of 4 bans per match
- Always remember that this is just a game (I.e behave yourself while the match is ongoing)
- There are 6 NoMod, 4 Hidden, 4 HardRock, 4 DoubleTime, 4 Free Mod and one Tiebreaker map
- The Tiebreaker will be Free Mod, no DoubleTime allowed (NoMod is allowed for everyone to use)
- When picking either DoubleTime or HardRock maps, you are allowed to pick Hidden alongside
- When picking a Free Mod map, you are allowed to pick Hidden, HardRock, Hidden + HardRock, DoubleTime, DoubleTime + Hidden; DoubleTime can be picked, ONLY if both sides agree. At least 2 players have to use a mod, the last person does not HAVE to use a mod but can still use it if they like
- With the Free Mod maps, players are not allowed to use the following mods: Easy, Flashlight, Sudden Death, other difficulty reducing mods or unranked mods.
Registration
Date when the registration will be closed: 12-25-2016 (mm-dd-yyyy), the maximum amount of teams allowed to join is 32.
In order to register, you have to fill in this form or you can send a PM to Wesley: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZx1k9-0wt7mRXmFgsIlnmA2RpHDBeR_GRnWToy2BkiFUbtA/viewform
Format for the pm:
Team name
1. (Team Captain name) (Timezone in UTC)
2. (Player 2 Name) (Timezone in UTC)
3. (Player 3 Name) (Timezone in UTC)
4. (Optional Player 4 Name) (Timezone in UTC)
5. (Optional Player 5 Name) (Timezone in UTC)
6. (Optional Player 6 Name) (Timezone in UTC)
Note: You need to fill in at least three players in order to register a team. You can change your team members until the registrations have been closed.
Find your timezone by going to http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=100 and fill in where you live.
Wandering players
Registration is almost ending, try to find a team instead of signing yourself up as a wandering player!
Don't have anyone to team up with? Send a message on the forum and you can be added to this list as a wandering player. All these players below are looking for a team, so try and form a team with each other
Teams [18/32]
1 Miss Gods ver. II
Captain: 
Ascendance (UTC-5)
Player 2:
Setomi (UTC+2)
Player 3:
alienflybot (UTC+8)
Player 4:
noraRcat (UTC+9)
Player 5:
eauikk (UTC+8)
Player 6:
- N a g i - (UTC+8)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
Captain: 
BennyBananas (UTC+2)
Player 2: Cameragod (UTC+2)
Player 3: Mile (UTC+2)
Player 4: DivineCake (UTC+2)
Player 5: DamnEasy (UTC+2)
Player 6: Toggeni (UTC+2)
Player 2:
Player 3:
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Player 6:
Anticonstitutionnellement Chrząszczyżewoszyckie Asociación Eh Ngentop
Captain: 
Kosmit (UTC+1)
Player 2:
[Nico] (UTC-3)
Player 3:
Haarashi (UTC+1)
Player 4: Orinoshi (UTC+1)
Player 5: BoberOfDarkness (UTC+1)
Player 6:
MizzoKing- (UTC+7)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
Que sea largo y bien imbecil seria lo ideal
Captain: 
Hibari_Yagyu (UTC-3)
Player 2: Rhytms Shemycal (UTC-3)
Player 3: [Force] (UTC-3)
Player 4: dika312 (UTC+7)
Player 5:
Nelly (UTC+3)
Player 6: OneLoveOneLife (UTC+3)
Player 2:
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Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
itisnotCWCteam
Captain: 
Catch The Beat (UTC+9)
Player 2: [224]Hyperw7 (UTC+9)
Player 3: Callionet (UTC+8)
Player 4: Molqus (UTC+9)
Player 5: Jimmy Rustler (UTC-4)
Player 6: Motion (UTC+9)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz
Captain: Verosan (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Vinci007 (UTC+1)
Player 3:
Madvillain (UTC+8)
Player 4:
Ponchiwi (UTC-7)
Player 5: Tenshichan (UTC+1)
Player 6: KenjiSetou (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
P0tential
Captain: 
Feel free to (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Crystallize (UTC+2)
Player 3:
- Magic Bomb - (UTC+0)
Player 4:
forgottentaco (UTC+2)
Player 5: e0486 (UTC+6)
Player 6: Vincs (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
One Miss Syndrome
Captain: Dahcreeper (UTC-8)
Player 2: ShipShup (UTC-5)
Player 3: GreySuka (UTC-5)
Player 4: TheFlameWind (UTC-3)
Player 5: FABninja (UTC+0)
Player 6: Rookie_FR (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
#Barokah
Captain: Kazuyo (UTC+7)
Player 2: Ddraigon- (UTC+7)
Player 3: Minalinsky- (UTC+7)
Player 4: Time- (UTC+7)
Player 5: Yukaa- (UTC+7)
Player 6: Keiji Subarashi (UTC+7)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
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Player 6:
Anicore
Captain: 
- Yuri - (UTC+1)
Player 2: 473147315371 (UTC+8)
Player 3: Kustzlov (UTC+1)
Player 4: HaazErnani (UTC+1)
Player 5: LechuCzechu (UTC+1)
Player 6:
-Ken (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Player 6:
shine moon 3
Captain: NetRuSH (UTC+8)
Player 2: -Scarlet Rose- (UTC+8)
Player 3: [Xx-Formosa-xX] (UTC+8)
Player 4: - S H - (UTC+8)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Fun Group
Captain: TheKubaX (UTC+1)
Player 2: ZimnyGrzejnik (UTC+1)
Player 3: Angvite (UTC+1)
Player 4: Yoshihiro (UTC+1)
Player 5: Nanami-chan0 (UTC+1)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Player 5:
Gochiusa
Captain: CheungB (UTC+8)
Player 2: Nagato (UTC+8)
Player 3: Latifah-sama (UTC+8)
Player 4: Sono Momoka (UTC+8)
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:
Crippling Depression
Captain: Dohland (UTC-6)
Player 2:
Karma (UTC+13)
Player 3: Toxic Bacon (UTC-6)
Player 4: Santii (UTC+1)
Player 5: Kasumii-sama (UTC+1)
Player 6: Sayonara Kitty (UTC+13)
Player 2:
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Tournament dates
All of the matches will take place in the weekend: Saturday and Sunday.
Due to previous complaints from last year we have decided to start the tournament in January instead of December.
(mm-dd-yyyy date format)
- Registration phase: from 10-17-2016 to 12-17-2016
- Tournament start: 01-07-2017
Useful Links
Roles, Score calculations and Winning conditions
In each round every team needs to have at least three players who are able to play.
Those three players are divided in two roles, the "score" and the "accuracy".
Two players can be the score, and one player has to be the accuracy. The team itself can decide which player takes what role.
The accuracy player has to be on the FIRST slot or the FOURTH slot of the multiplayer room depending on what team you are. This is a MUST, otherwise the bot will NOTwork.
At the end of the round the score is calculated differently than usual.
The scores of the two players playing for score, will be added up to each other. This creates the total score.
After the total score has been calculated, the accuracy player comes in. The total score will be multiplied by the accuracy of the accuracy player, to the power of a selected number (the modifier), depending on how hard the map is.
If the accuracy player manages to get 100% accuracy, only the scores will be added up to each other and thus won't decrease the score.
Below is an example on how the calculation is done:
player 1 score + player 2 score = total score
total score * (0.accuracy of player 3 ^ modifier) = final score
Example (Where the "modifier" is 3):
Last year we had to do all the calculations manually (to a certain extend), however this year it is almost fully automated. More information about this will be available on the Discord server where you will be invited to as soon as your team has been registered.
Staff
We are still looking for: Streamers, Match hosts,
- Art (king): dexabell
- Tournament host: Sartan, Wesley, He Ang Erika
- Match hosts: Sartan, Wesley, He Ang Erika, Dreamless-, KaguyaHouraisan, Mikudesu, Kosmit, Hanik, Terton, AngularJS
- Streamers: Colin, Sartan, Setomi
- Commentator: Sartan, Cawub, Julie, Vincs, Setomi, Starrodkirby86
- Map selectors: He Ang Erika, Colin, CLSW, _Asriel
