osu!mania 4K World Cup 2016 - Registrations now open!

We'd like to welcome all of you to this year's official osu!mania 4K World Cup. As usual, the rules have been adjusted from the previous MWC 4K, so please read them carefully before registering for this tournament.

For more details, refer to the osu!mania 4K World Cup 2016 wiki article.
You can discuss this event in the official forum thread.

Tournament Schedule

• Registration Phase: 28 Jun - 17 Jul 2016
• Live Drawings: 31 Jul 2016 14:00 UTC+0
• Group Stage: 06-07 Aug 2016
• Round of 16: 13-14 Aug 2016
• Quarterfinals: 20-21 Aug 2016
• Semifinals: 27-28 Aug 2016
• Finals - Week 1: 03-04 Sep 2016
• Finals - Week 2: 10-11 Sep 2016

What has been changed?

• We added more clear regulations regarding disconnects and inappropriate behavior during the matches.
• We added a cash prize pool for this competition! Additionally, everyone is able to support funding this prize pool by purchasing support banners for their user profile when available.
• We adjusted the mappool structure. There is no a NoMod and a FreeMod bracket, where FreeMod allows the usage of HardRock and Flashlight. One player per team must play with one mod on a FreeMod beatmap. NoMod forces everyone to play NoMod. Optionally, everyone can activate Hidden or FadeIn at any map they choose.
• We adjusted the mappool size and ban amounts for balancing purposes. Teams may only ban 1 beatmap each per match now. All mappools now have a constant size of 15 across all stages, with 10 NoMod, 4 FreeMod and 1 Tiebreaker beatmap.
• We will use ScoreV2 for this tournament. Check out this thread for more information.

Prizes

We are aiming to have a $1,900 cash prize pool for this world cup. You can support raising this amount of money. We will publish a method for that, as soon as we have it available!

• 1st: 50% of the raised prize pool, profile badge, "osu!mania Champion" user title
• 2nd: 38% of the raised prize pool, profile badge
• 3rd: 12% of the raised prize pool, profile badge

How do I register?

• Click here to sign-up!
• Do not create teams in advance! Teams will be formed after registration phase concluded by country's team captains.
• Hand in your registration before 17. July 2016.

Note that you can only participate if you are of a osu!mania global ranking of #5000 or higher and did not violate the osu! community rules in the past 12 months.

If your registration was successful, you will be put on the candidate list of your country. Whenever a captain for your country has been assigned, the list will be sent to them. This may take a while, so please be patient.

Remember that any registrations past the deadline will not be considered under any circumstances - so get your registrations done early to avoid any last-minute issues.

—Loctav