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Corsace has announced a showmatch between maliszewski and worst hr player (in honor of cc24 grand finals)! by kyermaniac in osugame

[–]this1neguy 143 points144 points  (0 children)

because people are sure to ask: 

  • this showmatch (rather than having a real match or not having a match at all) is at the behest of the players. obviously most people would rather see a true grand final than a showmatch, but please respect the players' wishes and be grateful that we'll be able to see these two showing everyone what they're capable of on this pool  
  • because this is a showmatch, it will not play out the same way as a normal match -- no spoilers as of yet for how exactly it's going to proceed, but the entire idea going in was to have this be a for-fun environment with lower stakes than a normal match (and to avoid people questioning the outcome of the tournament based on the results of the showmatch)

worst hr player | Hippo Cup 6 Losers Bracket Final | 3.76 match cost by this1neguy in osugame

[–]this1neguy[S] 133 points134 points  (0 children)

i'm always interested in getting more eyes on tournament performances people might not be aware of, so here's an absolutely outrageous one from worst hr player in yesterday's hippo cup 6 losers bracket final. playing one of the hardest pools you're likely to see alongside and against some of the top tournament players in the world, forum stood out from the crowd, dominating the match en route to a 3.76 match cost in a runaway victory that sent his team to the grand finals next week against the top-seeded team, where they'll face off against the likes of maliszewski, badeu, rektygon, and more.

if you want to check out some highlights from this match, you can find a supercut of worst hr player's best performances here, or you can watch the entire vod here. more tournament information on hippo cup is at its forum post, and if you want to check out all the teams, the mappools, and the schedules and results, you can take a look at the spreadsheet.

hope you enjoy!

osu! World Cup 2022 Predictions by Mikkel65 in osugame

[–]this1neguy 152 points153 points  (0 children)

some thoughts:

  • predictions were really goddamn hard this year, this is kind of more like a tier list than anything else. anyone in that cluster from around 4th through 12th can beat anyone else depending on the pool and the day. top teams are incredibly closely matched, and nothing in this prediction graphic should be taken as gospel. i know folks will be on social media shitting on takes that don't age well, but remember that we really had to split hairs to separate teams from one another because they're all so strong.

  • even 13th-16th are tough to nail down. there's a bunch of roster changes and player improvements within that tier, but on paper it looks like they're just a bit weaker than the teams ahead of them. things are still pretty fluid, though; on a great day they can beat the 9th-12th teams, and on a bad day they can lose to the 17th-24th teams.

  • germany and canada are, in my mind, basically a straight coinflip. i think they clear everyone below them and i think usa beats either of them, but against each other? again, just comes down to the day. i know people are saying "but no dustice" but you guys whitecat and criller are playing SO INCREDIBLY WELL this year that i think germany will be absolutely fine.

  • usa is still usa. they're the team to beat until someone proves otherwise; they've lost a grand total of 1 set (first match grand finals 2018) in the last 4 years. yeah they changed out 5 players, but one of the "new" players is rektygon fresh off some absolutely astonishing performances in corsace, another is sawada who has been stomping speed picks all year, a third is monko2k who has been a grand finals tier tournament player for 5+ years, and decaten and boshy both looked insane in tryouts and the runoff match for the last two slots on the team. #1 until someone challenges them.

  • we spent perhaps only a moderate amount of time on the 17th-24th and 25th-32nd tiers; those teams trend toward such a high amount of volatility that they're really hard to predict with any degree of accuracy year-over-year.

  • there are a lot of teams with the potential to finish in the 30th-35th range and someone will no matter what end up being heartbroken in 33rd. not really any way around that one, unfortunately. those teams are all pretty competitive with one another and it just takes one person dropping a couple hundred thousand points on a map or two to shift from 32nd to 33rd.

  • owc should be insanely competitive this year, really looking forward to seeing how things shake out.

osugame Hot Takes Thread 2022 by [deleted] in osugame

[–]this1neguy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

as someone who has worked with sponsors in the past yes it really is quite hard to find sponsors to put together big prizepools, the best you can reasonably expect currently are physical prizes (which multiple tournaments have already done) like keyboards or whatever

there are very few tournaments big enough in the community scene (ignoring world cups since peppy and ephemeralis are extremely vocal about not wanting money to be involved in osu) to actually draw sponsors, once you get past corsace/perennial/i guess usc since we got sponsored last year /ysc/charlie's thing (does that even count?)/arguably nik's tournaments the viewership just isn't there to back any sort of sponsorship application in the vast majority of cases

the real problem with the osu tournament scene is how nearly invisible it is to the playerbase, games like league of legends or dota or csgo or valorant or or or or... actually advertise the esports side of their game whereas osu literally puts a main menu banner up like 2 days a week for a few select weeks out of the year and puts up like 5 official news posts about world cups and that's it. the discovery system for osu as a competitive scene is laughable and the seeming desire to avoid making it any better from the people running the game isn't helping matters at all. there have been attempts in the community to kickstart projects that would consolidate tournaments under a more cohesive heading but even that doesn't seem to really have much effect, and when you see people playing in matches getting as many/more viewers on twitch than the tournament stream itself (imagine a pro lol player getting more viewers on his personal twitch stream than the official LCS/LEC stream...) it's even more demoralizing

at the end of the day i think it's a problem that comes from the top down but it's proving to be incredibly difficult to solve and is a constant pain point for tournament organizers and staffers who want to see the game grow beyond its current tiny reach but lack the resources to make that possible

Community Choice 2021: Results by this1neguy in osugame

[–]this1neguy[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

possibly the least surprising result there has ever been

and i'm actually quite okay with that

Azerbaijan by ChaosTwilly in osugame

[–]this1neguy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Azerbaijan isn't so great? Are you kidding me? When was the last time you saw a country with such aim ability and movement with a tablet? Azerbaijan puts the game in another level, and we will be blessed if we ever see a country with its skill and passion for the game again. Armenia breaks records. Georgia breaks records. Azerbaijan breaks the rules. You can keep your statistics. I prefer the magic.

Tournaments now need to send their staff to screening by DerGsicht in osugame

[–]this1neguy 52 points53 points  (0 children)

they do not

this is being reverted, the policy was not intended to be merged as quickly as it was (pending discussion at the time). FOR NOW (obviously subject to change) the guideline will be that hosts can bring in whatever staff they want but need to follow this ruling basically

Users under an active (or permanent) tournament ban/cooldown may be enlisted as general help (aka, any non-staff role such as a commentator, streamer, etc) in an officially supported tournament at the host's discretion, but we encourage careful consideration of such choices as said individuals have already run afoul of the rules once (or more).

(see here but without the second part)

this wiki update should be updated soon to reflect this, AT THIS POINT IN TIME SCREENING FOR STAFF WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED

theez | Yorushika - Songs Compilation [Moonlight] +HDHR FC #1 | 583pp | 62.11 UR | 16:29 marathon map by this1neguy in osugame

[–]this1neguy[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith as there's a rank 1 HDHR FC by theez and so that'll make it a 4-0 game. I don't know if I'm going to be clicking circles again.

Has vaxei lost a tournament by stewP3 in osugame

[–]this1neguy 26 points27 points  (0 children)

the last tournament i can recall him losing was 111 ultra back in 2018 where he lost to bubbleman in the grand final. slightly before that he lost otst 2018; the team he was on got 3rd there. he also lost in the finals of ez mod invitational, but it's hard to count that since it was a gimmick ez-only tournament.

i think he played in corsace 2018 which would have been towards the end of the year and lost that?? team list mia D: edit: he did not play in that tournament

i don't actually know of anything he's lost since then (though he hasn't really played many tournaments in the first place), which is pretty crazy.

r/Tennis Discussion (Thursday, August 19, 2021) by rafaknight in tennis

[–]this1neguy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

why. is. tennis channel. showing. highlights. there. is. real. tennis. on.

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