The tournament drawings screen is used to livestream the sorting of teams into groups that will compete in the group stages for a tournament. It is only available in osu!(lazer).
Please note that the osu!(lazer) client is currently under development and there may be bugs.
Open osu!(lazer) and press Ctrl + O
to reveal the game settings. From there, click "Open osu! folder". Create the following two files in this directory:
drawings.ini
drawings.txt
Next, add the following line to the drawings.txt
file:
AU : Australia : AUS
The drawings screen is now ready to be previewed. It is important to understand how the drawings screen looks and acts before modifying each of these files further.
From the main menu, press Ctrl + Shift + D
to access the drawings screen. The following should appear:
There are two sections to this screen: the main section on the left with the world map as a background, and the control panel section on the right. Please avoid livestreaming the control panel.
There are 4 buttons in the control panel, let's go over them:
drawings.txt
file.Press the Begin random
and the Stop random
buttons. When the scrolling stops on a flag at the centre of the screen, go back to the osu! folder and notice that an additional file has been created, called drawings_results.txt
.
Open the file and observe the format — this is where the results of the drawings process are stored, and should be imported into further tools to assist in managing the tournament, such as Google Spreadsheets.
Please make sure to save the drawings_results.txt
file in a safe location before pressing the Reset button, otherwise it will be destroyed!
A tournament may not desire as many as 8 groups, and likewise may not desire 8 teams per group. The drawings.ini
file is a configuration file that allows the adjustment of such properties.
A valid configuration file looks like:
Groups = 4
TeamsPerGroup = 4
The following are properties which are configurable through this file:
Property | Description | Valid Values | Default Value |
---|---|---|---|
Groups | The number of groups to sort teams into. | Between 1 and 8 (inclusive) | 8 |
TeamsPerGroup | The maximum number of teams in any one group. | Between 1 and 8 (inclusive) | 8 |
The drawings.txt
file provides a way to specify the teams that will be sorted into groups on separate lines. An example line is the following:
AU : Australia : AUS
This line has three sections separated by a colon (:
):
Flag Name | Full Team Name | Team Acronym |
---|---|---|
AU | Australia | AUS |
Visual representation of the drawings.txt elements
A valid drawings.txt
file with multiple countries as teams is:
AU : Australia : AUS
RO : Romania : RO
IT : Italy : IT
US : United States of America : USA
To define a custom flag, go back to the osu! folder containing the drawings.ini
file and inside it create the folder Flags
. Custom flag image files can be placed inside the Flags folder. For example if the file my-flag-file.png
was placed inside the Flags folder, then a valid line that can be added to the drawings.txt
file is:
my-flag-file : My Team : MT
The optimal resolution for flag images is 70x47 pixels (or the same aspect ratio).
It may be desirable to "seed" teams. In this case multiple drawings.txt
files can be hotswapped with the aid of the Reload button in the control panel.
Please don't hesitate to contact tournaments@ppy.sh
if there are any further usage questions.