osu!weekly #56

For the first time this month, flyte has a new design drop for us! An unlikely contender has made its way through to the winners' finals of the osu!Taiko World Cup, and a long-awaited modding update has finally made its way into live testing. If that wasn't enough to satisfy your thirst for details, you're just going to have to read on for more!

The long-awaited "Modding V2" is finally in public testing! While the previous iteration made for the current website has long been unveiled, the entire system has been rebuilt for the sleek and modern new.ppy.sh. We have some maps for modders to try it out first hand, so if you want to take part in some osu! history, head on over and check it out!

Look at this lucky guy get free mods!

Flyte has given us a new design drop! We haven't had one in a rather long time considering how frequent they used to be, but this one seems rather exciting! It appears to be a couple of snaps at the different aspects of the new replay viewing interface, as well as the spectator's interface that comes with it. In my personal opinion, this new design gives the entire spectating and replay experience more of a professional and exciting feeling!

Don't choke... don't choke........

The 8th OCWT (osu! China Winter Tournament) is coming your way! Despite how nicely named it is, it is important to note that this tournament is neither exclusive to Chinese players nor does it take place during the winter. That's right, this is an open tournament, and quite a large one at that! If you think you and your group of friends have what it takes to take home the grand prize of a supporter tag and a neat profile badge, you should head over and sign up soon. The deadline is on the 14th of May!

Registration for the osu!catch World Cup 2016 is now underway! With registration for the osu!Taiko World Cup 2016 turning out as a great success using the new system, it looks like the process is now pretty standardized and set for the 2016 tournament year. Anyone ranked above 5000 globally has the ability to sign-up for their country's team, so sign up before the 30th of April to get a chance at representing your country!

-KousakaHonoka- is back with more impressive plays of the week for us!

• [224]Hyperw7 took home a 972 pp score this week in osu!catch with a Hard Rock full combo on koliron's DystopiaGround - AugoEidEs [Freezing].
• It looks like veteran player Cookiezi aced the almost equally venerable mapper grumd's goreshit - burn this moment into the retina of my eye [extra] with a Hidden full combo!
• Top Taiko player _yu68 once again breaks new ground in performance rating, setting a full combo record on Nishizumi's SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Gemie - x.U. (ETIA. Hardcore Bootleg Remix)[Inner Oni] with Hidden and DoubleTime! This is also the first time any taiko player has made it past 11k performance rating.
• UK 4 Key osu!mania World Cup player Pope Gadget went and tore apart spy's dj TAKA meets DJ YOSHITAKA - Elemental Creation [4K EXTREME] with an SS rating!

Teams Japan and Canada are both now guaranteed a top 3 finish on the biggest stage of drum bashing of the year! From here, the two teams will play each-other for the first spot in the Grand Finals. With stakes this high, teams across the board are sure to be bringing their A-game this weekend, so you definitely do not want to miss the action! For a complete schedule, as well as current standings in the tournament, be sure to check out the wiki page for more information.

As usual, a detailed list of statistics are being updated here! A big thanks to Deadbeat for keeping up with every single match to bring you guys cool numbers to dig into.

It hadn't occurred to me until now, but we are now well over into a year of the osu!weekly! It's slightly unceremonious to mention something like this so late, but I wanted to thank you all for your support of this newsletter up to now. On another note, this month's poll is still running strong. Over 800 of you guys wrote down your vote already, but keep those responses coming in!

If you have any news you would like to share with us, including tournaments you are running and cool things you see other people doing, please send us an email at news@ppy.sh! I really would like to show off as many things as possible, so if you could help it would be doing me a great service!

—Nyquill