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North American Taiko Tournament 2018

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The North American Taiko Tournament 2018 (NATT 2018) was a double-elimination 1v1 osu!taiko tournament hosted by Backfire, Garpo and incandescence. The tournament was restricted to players within the North American countries only. It was the third instalment of the North & South American Taiko Tournament.

Tournament schedule

Event Timestamp
Registration phase 2018-07-02/2018-07-21
Group stage 2018-07-28/2018-07-29
Round of 16 2018-08-04/2018-08-05
Quarterfinals 2018-08-11/2018-08-12
Semifinals 2018-08-18/2018-08-19
Finals 2018-08-25/2018-08-26
Grand Finals 2018-09-01

Prizes

Placing Prize(s)
Gold crown Unique profile badge
Silver crown 4 months of osu!supporter (or US$12)
Bronze crown 1 month of osu!supporter (or US$5)

NATT 2018 winner badge

Organisation

The North American Taiko Tournament 2018 was run by various community members.

Position Member(s)
Organizer Backfire, Garpo, incandescence
Mappool selector Backfire, incandescence, Zetera
Referee Backfire, Dargin, Das, Garpo, incandescence, janitoreihil, Zetera
Commentator Dargin, Das, incandescence, janitoreihil
Designer Micro
Statistician Garpo
Wiki editor fajar13k

Participants

Groups

Podium

This competition has come to an end and resulted in the following podium:

Mappools

Grand Finals

Download the mappack here! (71 MB)

Finals

Semifinals

Quarterfinals

Download the mappack here! (80 MB)

Round of 16

Download the mappack here! (102 MB)

Group stage

Match results

Grand Finals

Saturday, 1 September 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
janitoreihil 6 3 vladyushko -

Finals

Saturday, 25 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Das 6 1 Catgirl #1
Tem 0 6 Loopy542 #1
janitoreihil 6 1 vladyushko -

Sunday, 26 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Loopy542 6 0 Das -
vladyushko 6 3 Loopy542 -

Semifinals

Saturday, 18 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Catgirl 5 2 _knots #1
yea 5 1 Brames #1
Shyguy 3 5 closed #1
Loopy542 5 2 jyake_ou #1

Sunday, 19 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
closed 0 5 Loopy542 #1
Catgirl 5 3 yea #1
vladyushko 5 2 Tem #1
janitoreihil 5 1 Das #1

Quarterfinals

Saturday, 11 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Shyguy 2 5 Das #1
Tem 5 3 Catgirl #1
ayyEve 0 5 Brames #1
closed 0 -1 Alchyr win by default

Sunday, 12 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
vladyushko 5 2 yea #1
janitoreihil 5 2 Loopy542 #1
_knots 5 0 Obama Taichou #1
jyake_ou 5 2 cheese salad #1

Round of 16

Saturday, 4 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Das 4 0 ayyEve #1
Catgirl 4 3 cheese salad #1
jyake_ou 0 4 Tem #1

Sunday, 5 August 2018:

Player 1 Player 2 Match link
Loopy542 4 0 Obama Taichou #1
janitoreihil 4 0 _knots #1
Shyguy 4 3 Brames #1
yea 0 -1 Alchyr win by default
vladyushko 4 0 closed #1

Group stage

Complete Group Stage match results can be accessed through the statistics sheet

Ruleset

  1. Only Players with a United States, Canadian, or Mexican flag on their account are allowed to register in this tournament.
  2. Group Stage matches are seeded based on global rank at time of registration submission.
  3. NATT will have a Group Stage followed by a knock-out double elimination structure with a loser bracket.
  4. NATT matches will be 1v1 Taiko in team style format with a point given to the highest score achieved in the Score V2 system.
  5. The win conditions for each stage are as follows.
    • In Group Stage, it is Bo5: First to win 3 maps wins.
    • In Round of 16, it is Bo7: First to 4 maps wins.
    • In Quarterfinals and Semifinals, it is Bo9: First to win 5 maps wins.
    • In Finals and Grand Finals, it is Bo11: First to win 6 maps wins.
  6. Score V2 will be used.
  7. Map pools will contain 5 No Mod (3+2 EX), 2 HD, 2 HR, 2 DT, 3 FM and 1 Tiebreaker.
  8. Players must have at least 1 mod activated during the Free Mod pool.
  9. You are allowed 1 map ban per match, this does not include the Tie-breaker.
  10. Each player can choose to play up to 1 warm-up map. A warm-up must be shorter than 4 minutes. If both players agree to one warm-up, the duration must be shorter than 6 minutes.
  11. Roll is used to determine who will get the first pick and the first ban. The winner of roll will select the first map, whereas the loser will ban the first map.
  12. Tiebreaker will be played if both players are 1 point away from winning. It will not be Free Mod.
  13. In cases where a map results in a tie, the map is nullified and the Player who picked said map will pick another. (If the Tiebreaker ends in a draw, the tiebreaker will be replayed under FM.)
  14. If no staff or referee is available, the match will be postponed.
  15. Players will have up to 15 minutes after the scheduled time to show up. Failure to show up without prior notice will result in a win by default.
  16. Any modification of these rules will be announced.