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Você pode encontrar uma versão em português deste post aqui. (thanks to AnonX32 for the translation !)
日本語版の記事はこちらにあります (thanks to katatakatata for the translation !)
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Vous pouvez trouver une version française de ce forum post ici. (thanks to TLQ_Yoshii for the translation !)
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Русский перевод данного форум поста можно найти здесь. (thanks to Starger for the translation !)
Du kan finne en norsk versjon av denne forumsiden her. (thanks to Mills for the translation !)
The third iteration of the Global Taiko Showdown Series, the Advanced Global Taiko Showdown, has now ended. The fourth iteration, being the Katacheh Global Taiko Showdown is also starting up very soon, and with that being said, we've decided to launch up the fifth iteration, which is quite the bold move! Welcome to the Continental Global Taiko Showdown. A tournament that will have a 1v1 tournament for 5 different regions of the world, and the top 8 of each tournament will be the team representing that region in our 4-team double-elimination 4v4 tournament! And yes, you read the first sentence right. There is one tournament per region. So 5 tournaments, all at once.
- You must join the Discord Server of the tournament to actually be counted as a player. If not, then you won't get on any player lists.
- You must sign up with the country flag of your profile.
To register in this tournament, fill in our registration form, and join our Discord Server. With that, you'll be set to play in the tournament, and will be given a player role for the region you're in. More information for which region you will be playing depending on your country is given in the rules, so keep on reading!
Registration phase: September 14th - October 20th
Screening phase: October 20th - October 27th
The dates from now on will be for the first phase of the tournament, aka the 1v1 tournament for each region.
Qualifier Stage: November 2nd - November 3rd
Round Of 32 + Loser's Bracket Round 1: November 9th - November 10th
Round Of 16 + Loser's Bracket Round 2: November 16th - November 17th
Quarterfinals + Loser's Bracket Round 3 + 4: November 23rd - November 24th
Semifinals + Loser's Bracket Round 5 + 6: November 30th - December 1st
Winner's Bracket Finals + Loser's Bracket Finals and Grand Finals: December 7th - December 8th
Grand Finals: December 14th - December 15th
After this, we will have a break until January 4th to begin with the 4v4 team tournament.
Qualifier Stage: January 4th - January 5th
Semifinals + Loser's Bracket Round 1: January 11th - January 12th
Winner's Bracket Finals + Loser's Bracket Finals: January 18th - January 19th
Grand Finals: January 25th - January 26th
Screening phase: October 20th - October 27th
The dates from now on will be for the first phase of the tournament, aka the 1v1 tournament for each region.
Qualifier Stage: November 2nd - November 3rd
Round Of 32 + Loser's Bracket Round 1: November 9th - November 10th
Round Of 16 + Loser's Bracket Round 2: November 16th - November 17th
Quarterfinals + Loser's Bracket Round 3 + 4: November 23rd - November 24th
Semifinals + Loser's Bracket Round 5 + 6: November 30th - December 1st
Winner's Bracket Finals + Loser's Bracket Finals and Grand Finals: December 7th - December 8th
Grand Finals: December 14th - December 15th
After this, we will have a break until January 4th to begin with the 4v4 team tournament.
Qualifier Stage: January 4th - January 5th
Semifinals + Loser's Bracket Round 1: January 11th - January 12th
Winner's Bracket Finals + Loser's Bracket Finals: January 18th - January 19th
Grand Finals: January 25th - January 26th
If any question you're asking can be answered here, expect to be ignored by hosts.
I know it's a bit long, but we have to go through all of this first.
General Rules
- This tournament is a two-parts tournament. The first part will be a 1v1 tournament within different regions. There will be 7 of these, all played at the same dates. The second part will be a 4v4 between the top 8 of each region.
- The players/teams will first play a Qualifiers Stage to seed them accordingly, then will head on to a double-elimination tournament.
- The Score System used will be Score V2.
- Any player who meets the requirements stated in the restrictions part is allowed to play. Since this tournament will aim to get badged, some players might be declined by osu staff, reasons may vary from being unrestricted within the past year, multiaccounting, boosting accounts, etc. The hosts will not be made aware of the exact reasons as to why a player will be declined. Please do not ask them, and contact osu! support instead.
- Any staff member apart from Organizers, Mappoolers and Referees is allowed to play.
- Players and staff members must have read this ruleset entirely (and we will assume you did so throughout the tournament).
- All participants must stay respectful and keep a proper attitude. Not following this rule can result in a ban/blacklist from the tournament. This rule concerns all the staff as well.
- Any rule changes or unexpected occurrences will be announced in the thread and in the Discord server.
Tournament Registration and Region Restrictions
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- In order to be registered, you need to meet the criteria stated in the restrictions part of this forum post.
- Players sign up individually. When their registration is accepted, they will get a player role with their respective region.
- The captain for each region's team by default will be the winner of the 1v1 tournament for that region. He can either ask to change captain, if him and the new captain agree, or it can be changed by the team, if everyone else on the team agrees.
- The captain is going to be the one who reschedules a match if needed and will ensure that his teammates are here for the matches.
- The regions for this tournament are: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, South East Asia/Oceania.
- Countries that can play for North America are: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinindad and Tobago, United States of America.
- Countries that can play for South America are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela.
- Countries that can play for Europe are: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine.
- Countries that can play for Asia are: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uzbekistan, Yemen.
- Countries that can play for South East Asia/Oceania are: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
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Stage Regulations
- There are seven stages in the 1v1 tournament, the Qualifiers, the RO32, the RO16, the Quarterfinals, the Semifinals, the Finals, and the Grand Finals. It may change depending on if a region gets less players than expected, or much more than expected.
- There are five stages in the team tournament, the Qualifiers, the Quarterfinals, the Semifinals, the Finals, and the Grand Finals.
- Players/Teams will be seeded with the average of their ranks on each map during the Qualifiers round.
- The first seed of the Qualifiers stage in the team tournament will be getting a bye, making them go to the Semifinals directly.
- In case there are more than 32 registered players, only the top 32 of the Qualifiers will go in the rest of the tournament.
- The winning condition for each stage is:
- Round Of 32, Round Of 16: Best-Of-9 (First to 5 points)
- Quarterfinals: Best-Of-11 (First to 6 points)
- Semifinals, Finals, and Grand Finals: Best-Of-13 (First to 7 points)
Mappool Rules
- There will be 1 mappool for each of the following : Qualifiers, RO32, RO16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Finals and Grand Finals. For the 1v1 tournaments, every mappool will be the same, due to mapsetters realistically not being able to release 7 mappools every week.
- The Loser's Bracket will always play on the same pool as the Winner's bracket of the same weekend.
- The Qualifiers pool will be different from all the other rounds, as it will have a format of 2 NoMod maps, 1 Hidden map, 1 Hard Rock map, 1 Double Time map.
- Each mappool consists of 6 brackets: NoMod, Hidden, HardRock, DoubleTime, FreeMod and Tiebreaker.
- The Round Of 32 and Round Of 16 mappool will have 14 maps each. The quarterfinals mappool will have 15 maps. The mappools from Semifinals until Grand Finals will have 19 maps.
- The size of the NoMod bracket will be of 4 in Round Of 32 and Round Of 16, it will be of 5 in Quarterfinals, and it will be of 6 in Semifinals until Grand Finals.
- The size of the Hidden, Hard Rock, and Double Time will be of 2 from RO32 until Quarterfinals, and it will be of 3 from Semifinals until Grand Finals.
- The size of the FreeMod pool will be of 3 during the entire tournament.
- The FreeMod pool is played with FreeMod activated. Every individual player can pick Hidden, HardRock or both. At least one player of each team must have at least one mod activated.
- The Tiebreaker is played under FreeMod conditions but it is not necessary that at least one player has at least one mod activated.
- The mappool for each stage will be showcased a week before.
Scheduling Rules
- Every stage is held during the weekend. (It is however allowed to schedule on another day if no good time is found during the weekend, and a referee is available)
- We will try to schedule as best as possible to fit with the timezones. The schedule will be released the previous weekend of each stage.
- Reschedules will only be considered if both players/teams agree to a time, this needs to be done and notified to the tournament staff before Thursday at 23:59 UTC+0 in that particular week when your match takes place.
- For the team tournament, reschedules may only be requested by a team captain.
Match Regulations
- A private lobby will be created 10 minutes before your match by a referee. You will get invited by the referee either right then, or right at the match time. During the team tournament, both teams captains will be invited into the room when it's match time. Then the referees or the captains will invite the other players into the room.
- If no staff or referee is available, the match will be postponed.
- If less than the minimum required players attend, the maximum time the match can be postponed is 10 minutes. After then, it will be a WBD no matter what, unless if the players in the lobby do not mind waiting more time.
- If neither of both teams have the minimum required players after 10 minutes, the highest seeded team will advance.
- During the 1v1 tournament, matches will be played as Team VS and Score V2. The name of the room will be "CGTS: (Player 1) vs (Player 2)"
- During the team tournament, matches will be played as Team VS and Score V2. The name of the room will be "CGTS: (Team Red) vs (Team Blue)".
- Each player/team is allowed one warm-up but it must be below 4 minutes. Everyone from both teams is allowed in the room during warm ups.
- Each player/captain has to ban one beatmap to be selected from the pool (apart from Tiebreaker). These beatmaps are not allowed to be picked by any team in the entire match.
- Players/The captain of each team will roll with the command "!roll" in the chat.
- The player/team with the highest roll bans second and picks first. The player/team with the lowest roll bans first and picks second.
- Beatmap selection will then alternate between each player/captain selecting a beatmap out of the map pool.
- Players/Captains may pick freely from any bracket.
- Players/Captains will have 2 minutes to ban and pick maps, and to get ready as well. If by the end of the timer no map is picked, the referee will !roll with the number of maps left in the pool, and the number he will fall on will be the pick.
- During the team tournament, exchanging players during a match is allowed without limitations.
- If a player disconnects between the beatmaps and he can not provide an exchange, the match can be delayed 10 minutes at maximum.
- If a player disconnects, they get treated as if they failed the map.
- Disconnects within 30 seconds after beatmap begin can be rematched. This is only allowed once per player/team.
- Failed players' scores will count in this tournament.
- If the beatmap ends in a draw, the game will be nullified and the map will be replayed. If a second tie happens, the map will be nullified, and the team picking this map will have to pick another map.
- In case of a tie in points (example: 4-4 in BO9), the tiebreaker is selected.
Hosts: 
Kasumii-sama Purettsu Eru TLQ_Yoshii
Designers:
fajar13k 
OsuMe65
Developer:ThePooN
Statistician:
Acrith 
youi
Mapsetters:
_Rise 
Babysnakes 
Drum Decimator Nofool
Referees:
Akali393394 
AnonX32 Apsuko 
Capu 
Cindelluna GDLenny 
Icerite ill onion JDrago14 Kasumii-sama 
Krekker Ladylag Mimir QEpicAce Rougoku Ryumi Satsukel 
Sayira
Starger 
Stupid Idiot TLQ_Yoshii uchuuj1n
Streamers:AnonX32 cheese salad Deroo FulgurentKille ITotallyGetThat Mimir Purettsu Eruoliebol Sayira
Commentators:Ak1o AmateurMonkeyYT AnonX32 Bauregaurd Beat43210 Binsu CaptainEChan 
Catulus Deroo Drecksackblase Edgar_Figaro 
Gamelan4 Heam 
janitoreihil kb131313 mangomizer MewQEpicAce 
Raphalge SayiraSparxe 
Teezel Zetera
Translators:AnonX32 Gamelan4 
Jakads katatakatata 
Mills Starger tkdLolly TLQ_Yoshii
Wiki Editor:fajar13k
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1st place: $16 or 6 months of supporter + 1st place profile banner
2nd place: $12 or 4 months of supporter + 2nd place profile banner
3rd place: $8 or 2 months of supporter + 3rd place profile banner
1st place: Profile badge + $32 or 1 year and 2 months of supporter for each player + 1st place team banner
2nd place: $12 or 4 months of supporter each + 2nd place team banner
3rd place: $8 or 2 months of supporter each + 3rd place team banner
All subscriptions, bits and donations to the Twitch channel will go towards funding the cashprize of this tournament even further. If you wish to help the cashprize as well, feel free to contact me via Discord: Kasumii-sama#5007
