[STD] 6 Digit World Cup 2024 | 100k-999k [Player & Staff REG OPEN] · forum (2024)

1. 6WC is a country based tournament, similar to OWC
2. Rank Range: 100k - 999k
3. Mode: 4v4 Team Vs
4. Team size: 4 - 8
5. No fail is required for the entire tournament
6. All scores will be recorded in ScoreV2
7. Top 40 teams in qualifiers will progress to group stages, top 2 team of each group will progress to bracket stage
8. The bracket stage will be double elimination
9. All times listed are in UTC format

| REGISTRATION

1. Signups are individual.
2. Registered players will play their respective country’s tryouts and the captain will decide the roster who will play in the tournament.
3. Staff isn’t allowed to play, with the exception of streamers and commentators.
4. Presence in the 6wc discord server is mandatory for everybody
5. Playing in your country’s tryouts is mandatory to be eligible to play in the tournament Only for players in countries with more than 8 signed-up players
6. Any country with at least 4 players registered will be allowed to participate as a team.
7. There will be no teams combining two or more countries.

| FLAG CHANGES

1. Players are allowed to request a flag-change by messaging the admins.
2. Players must send a photo of a valid identification document to prove their relationship to the country they want to switch to. Passport, driver’s license, permanent residence document, tax form, student ID, etc.
3. Players are expected to blur personal information when they send in their documents Legal name, photo, ID numbers, date of birth, etc.
4. All photos of the document will only be shared with admins.
5. All photos of documents will be deleted by the end of the registration period

| SCREENING
Players may be “screened out” (not allowed to play) if they’re:

1. Out of the rank range at any point during the registration period.
2. Abuse of rank range
3. Suspicious behavior
4. Suspicious profile statistics
5. Having been restricted in the past 6 months prior to the end of the registration period.
6. Having been part of the top 3 teams of either 6WC2 or 6WC 2023.
7. Have received any badge from any osu!Standard tournament as players.

Players will be allowed to appeal if they are screened out for a short period right after the release of the screening results. The appeals must contain a short explanation of why they think they should play in 6wc. The admins will decide whether to accept or deny the appeal. Any insults thrown at the staff team or other players during the appeal process will result in immediate denial of appeal.

| TRYOUTS

1. Tryouts are a period of time that helps to determine who is on the roster for a country.
2. Tryouts are only necessary for countries that have more than 8 players.
3. Each country that needs to host tryouts will host it in a self-organized Discord server.
4. Tryouts should be self-organized and will have little to no support from the admins.
5. The 6WC 2024 Discord server contains a channel with information about all existing tryout servers.
6. The captains will submit their 8-player roster by the end of the tryouts period.
7. Captains will also need to submit an additional 8 players in the case that one or more players in the original roster are screened out.
8. Only these submitted players will be looked at during the screening procedure.
9. In the rare case where more than 8 players from a country’s roster are screened out, the remaining players will form a team without any new players added.

| QUALIFIERS

1. Each team will sign up to a lobby of their choice.
2. If none of the preset lobbies works for one’s team, they may request a custom lobby. Custom lobbies will be accepted depending on staffs’ availability.
3. Reminders and invites will be sent 15 and 5 minutes before the lobby time.
4. All maps will be played in the predetermined order from NM1 to DT2.
5. A timer of 90 seconds will be enforced between every map.
6. Teams are free to subsitute in any player they want between each map without restriction.
7. After all maps in the mappool have been played, the teams will get an optional second chance to play through the entire mappool.
8. The team captain will inform the referee whether they want a second playthrough. All maps will be played in the predetermined order
9. The second playthrough must be played immediately after the first playthrough, but the second playthrough will be done in a separate lobby and the referee might change.
10. If a player disconnects during qualifier lobbies, the score is counted as is and should be played again at the end of each lobby, after every maps has been played.
11. Team qualifiers will be calculated using the sum of percentiles assuming a normal curve (also known as Z-Sum). TLDR: Scores are calculated by comparing to each map’s average score rather than the best score. For a more detailed explanation, see here
12. The date and time of the qualifier results reveal will be announced in the discord server.
13. The top 40 teams will proceed to the group stage

| GROUP STAGE

1. All qualified teams will be distributed into 5 seeding groups: top, high, middle, low, and unseeded. Each seeding group contains 8 teams.
2. Each group will be distributed through a random draw, no group will have two teams from the same seeding group
3. Each group will have 5 teams
4. Each team will play against each other team in their group once. In total a team will play 4 matches during group stages.
5. Group results will be sorted in the following order:
   - Match wins
   - Map win/loss difference
   - Head-to-head results between the tied teams
6. The top 2 teams in each group will advance to the double-elimination bracket.
7. The teams will be distributed to the double-elimination bracket using another random draw.
   - A first-placed team will always face a second-placed team in round of 16.
   - Teams will not be facing the same team they have played against during the group stage.

| MATCH PROCEDURE

1. The order of the match occurs as follows: warmup→roll→protects→bans→picks.
2. Match invites will be sent 5 to 10 minutes before the match time.
3. Players are free to mention the referee role in the discord server if the referee is missing 5 minutes before the match time and no admin is available.
4. If a team doesn’t have at least 4 players present after the warmups, that team will lose by default. If both teams don’t have at least 4 players present after warmups, both teams will lose by default.
5. The first team in the lobby name is Team Red and will be in slots 1 to 4. The other team is Team Blue and will be in slots 5 to 8.
6. Teams are free to choose their warmup map. The map has to be shorter than 4 minutes and cannot belong to the current mappool. Warmups will be played with FreeMod on.
7. Teams can skip their warmups and the warmup order will be decided arbitrarily by the referee.
8. Captains must DM their team’s warmup map to the referee at least 30 minutes prior to the match time.
9. Rolls are to be made by the captains of each team using the command “!roll”. Rolls made by non-captains will not be considered.
10. In situations when the captain is not available, the team will designate a substitute captain to make the roll.
11. The winner of the roll will Protect Second,Ban Second, and Pick First.
12. The loser of the roll will Protect First,Ban First, and Pick Second.
13. Protects are used to make a map impossible to ban.
14. Protected maps can be picked at any point of the match by any team.
15. Bans are used to make a map impossible to pick, effectively removing it from the mappool.
16. Picks decide what map gets played next.
17. A timer of 90 seconds will be enforced on each protect and ban.
18. The amount of bans will depend on the round.
19. If the amount of bans is 2 per team the ban order will be ABAB.
20. After 4 maps have been played, both teams will each ban a map, with the losing team banning second. If the score is tied after 4 maps, the team that lost the 4th map will be banning second.
21. In the Finals and Grand Finals, there will be another banning phase after 8 maps have been played. The same rules will be applied as the second banning phase.
22. The same team is allowed to ban and pick the same mod category twice.
23. A timer of 90 seconds will be enforced for every pick with an additional 2 minutes given afterwards to prepare and ready up.
24. If a team fails to pick a map after 90 seconds, the referee will give that team a warning. If further infringements happen, that team will forfeit their pick to the other team. All other pick sequences will stay the same.
25. If a team has repeatedly and maliciously gone over the timer, the referee is allowed to award that point to the opposing team.
26. Picks are in an alternate order (ABABAB…).
27. Teams are free to substitute in any player they want between each map without restriction.
28. In the rare event of a tie, the result will be nullified and the map will be replayed.
29. If a player disconnects within the first 30 seconds of a map, the map will be aborted and replayed. Aborts are only allowed once per team in each match.
30. In case of a disconnect followed by an Abort, the disconnected player may be substituted out, but all other players must remain in the lobby.
31. If the disconnection happens after, then only submitted scores will be counted.
32. For FM maps, every player needs to take NF, one player must go HR, one player must go HD, one player is allowed to choose any valid mod combination other than NM, and the final player is allowed to choose any valid mod combination including NM.
33. HDHR is not accepted as a substitution for either the HD or HR requirement.
34. Valid mods are EZ, HR, HD, FL, and any combination between these for mods.
35. EZ is multiplied by 1.8 in any context (on top of the in-game multiplier)
36. Each team can call a 2 minute time-out per match. This time-out can be called at any point during the match after the first map has been played.
37. If both teams are one point away from winning, the TB (tiebreaker) will be played.
38. Any valid mod combination, including NM, is allowed on the TB.
39. If any player breaks the FM rules during a map, their score on that specific map will be counted as 0.

Host: Mashyuf
Admin: TerliManor, diorytt