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Ladies and gentlemen!
Welcome to the fifth annual Osu Balkan Cup!

WINNERS: skylewl & Andrej
Congratulations!

OBC is a 2v2 osu! tournament in osu! Standard. Only players from Ex-Yu countries can apply. Those are Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo. There are no requirements other than the country one.

This thread has nothing to do with OBChibi. OBChibi will be continued in last thread.

~~How to apply?~~

Application protocol

Applications are now officially open and they're ending on February 28th 23:59.

If you wish to apply for the tournament, you'll need to send a PM to Schultzika(me). Your message must contain links to the players' profiles (your teammate and your own). Soon after you should get a message of approval from me.
The only requirement for the tournament is that both players from each team have one of these flags(players do not necessarily need to be from the same country):

Serbia
Croatia
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Macedonia
Montenegro

Solo applications are not taken into consideration. If you're having troubles finding teammates, there are plenty of players in #balkan channel.

Tournament staff

Tournament staff

Hosts: the ones who started it all

Coordinator: responsible for making schedules and tables

Gumica

Streamers: responsible for live streaming the tournament

Schultzika

Commentators: voices you'll be hearing in live streams

Map pickers: responsible for picking a suitable map pool for each stage of the tournament

Seni

Tournament organization

Tournament organization

Due to some time constraints, the tournament will start off in round of 16, with 16 teams chosen out of the 88 that applied.

Each round will have a different map pool consisting of 18 maps:

5 No Mod
3 Hard Rock
3 Hidden
3 Double Time
3 Free Mod
1 Tie Break

Map pools will always be published on Sunday evening, 6 days before the next tournament stage. That's the given time for preparation. Once the scheduled time comes, all teams will proceed to play their matches according to the protocol described later in this post.

Tournament schedule

Tournament schedule

The tournament will be held over the course of 1 months on the following days:

Round of 16: 27th and 28th April
Quarter finals: 4th and 5th May
Semi finals: 11th and 12th May
Finals: 18th and 19th May

Rules regarding scheduling and rescheduling

Excel Spreadsheet containing dates and times for each match in the tournament will be posted in the beginning of March, after groups have been selected and before the matches are played.
Each additional (updated) tournament spreadsheet will be posted on Sunday evening or at the very least, Monday.
By participating in the tournament, you're expected to be available and able to play your matches on Saturdays and Sundays.
Reschedule requests for the following week are granted only if such request is made by Wednesday (23:59CET/CEST). Notify Schultzika for assistance as soon as possible in such scenario. Tip: check your upcomming matches after you finish all of your matches in one given week, or wait for the updated spreadsheet.

If you try to reschedule after Wednesday - you can't. We wont allow it even with consent of both teams. If you don't come to your scheduled time, you lose 5:0.
OBC staff takes full liberty to pick a new match schedule or retain the original one if both parties cannot reach a consensus.
OBC staff takes full liberty to reject a reschedule request in case of unreasonable demands, trolling, or abuse.

Match protocol / Rules

Match protocol / Rules

If you wish to reschedule your match, contact Schultzika as soon as possible! Details are in the box above.
Some matches will not be overseen by the tournament staff. That means the players will have to organize the matches themselves. Protocol for a match is stated bellow. Make sure to follow these rules. In case you have a question, feel free to ask any of the tournament staff members. There will surely be someone online at the time of each match.

Creating a room
When the time of your match comes, contact your opponents. Anyone can make the room you'll play in. The name of the room MUST follow this format:
OBC2019: (team x) vs (team y)
For example:
OBC2019: (team 13) vs (team 24)
The room must have a password (any password will do). When everyone enters the room, team with the higher pp sum MUST BE blue. The other team is red.
Players from the blue team MUST BE on slots 1 and 2 in the room, while the red ones MUST BE on 3 and 4.

Warmup
1. Blue team chooses warmup map - the map is played.
2. Red team chooses warmup map - the map is played.
-Warmup maps can be anything(ranked or not) but the length must be under 7 minutes.

Ban phase
3. In ban phase, blue team first bans one map, then the red one and so on(to ban a map, just type the name of the song in chat).
All teams have 2 bans available.
Tie break map cannot be banned.
IMPORTANT: A team doesn't have to use all their bans.

Playing
4. The match starts - red team chooses a map from the map pool, then the blue team and so on.
-This is repeated until one team wins(number of wins required depends on the tournament stage).
-Each map from the map pool can be played only once.
-Maps must be played with specified mods.
-Free mod maps are played with free mods, no mod must stay no mod.
If a team plays a freemod map, at least 1 of their members MUST USE EITHER HD, HR, OR BOTH
5. If the result is a tie, tie break map is played.
-Tie break is treated as freemod except nobody is forced to use any mods.
6. When the winner is decided, anyone from the winning team must send Schultzika a match link(when you create a multiplayer room under the Multiplayer tab BanchoBot will say "Match history available here").
-If you don't send Schultzika the match link - both teams get 0 points.

Missing players?

You're allowed to be 15 minutes late. If a team doesn't show up, they lose 4:0
Team is allowed to play with 1 member missing(1v2 is allowed though unrecommended)
If a player disconnects while playing, the map is played 1v2 until the end. Other maps are still 2v2 if the player reconnects

Prizes

Prizes

Badge for the tournament winners.
Eternal glory for every soul that clashed on circly osu! fields of honor.

Supporters most likely - we'll announce the actual quantities later.

If you need additional info or just want to chat with us, send a message to Dostedt or stop by in #balkan.
If you don't need anything, make sure to hang out with us in #balkan anyway because that's where all the fun is!

Tournament overview

This section will be regularly updated to provide information on current state of the tournament.

OBC
Round of 16 BO9 - DONE

Map pool

No Mod: