Additionals to ThankYou's tournament hosting ban statement
Additions to the morning's statement will also be sent to the Tournament Committee (TCOM):
Now, I am obliged to inform you on which tournaments, including international ones, this decision will have an impact.
Critical priority (the tournament will be canceled, the chance is 90%, or has already been canceled):
- 4 Digit Catch World Cup 2025 (4CWC)
- Unannounced offline tournaments in three regions of Russia as part of a festival or other venue
- Unannounced tournaments for russian-speaking community on 7K Mania, CTB
- Unannounced series of fastcups for the international segment of community
High priority (the tournament may be canceled, the chance is 50%, or the quality of the event may be reduced/more staff will be needed):
- #russian osu cup 2025 (#roc)
- Play-Osu.RU Taiko Open CIS Tournament 2026 (TOCT)
- Play-Osu.RU Masters Open CIS Tournament 2026 (MOCT)
- Play-Osu.RU X-Project 3 4K Tournament (XP4KT3)
- #russian osu cup klassic 2026 (#rock)
- Play-Osu.RU CIS Open Lazer Tournament 2 (COLT)
Medium priority (the quality of the event may be reduced and/or significant amount of the tournament staff will be required):
- A series of fastcups from Play-Osu.RU by 4k Mania, 7k Mania, Taiko
- A series of fastcups from Play-Osu.RU by OSU! in Newcomers, Amateurs, and Masters categories
- Preparation of qualifying stages, including those depending on other tournaments, for Moscow osu! Event 2026
- An unannounced international tournament
Such affects are related to the fact that, where possible, the tournament staff will have to deal with my part of the work. In some cases, I cannot be replaced, for example, due to my geographical location and accessibility, or due to the refusal to host the tournament due to my personal absence.
Also, we will discuss with the hosts group the possibility of withdrawing further official tournament support, because there is no support. Points:
- long-term reviews of tournaments with a low level of quality (worse than in 2024)
- terrible communication (lack of timely responses to emails, lack of specific answers to questions in the official discord channel, deception in answering questions, inconsistent answers with a large number of logical errors)
- lack of support in cases of suspected foul play (the tournament committee does not resolve issues of foul play at tournaments and does not contribute to their resolution. please think about the meaning of this phrase)
- violation of procedures and their own regulations for issuing badges (this is worthy of a separate document so that the hosts who did not receive three badges would ask some questions about this procedure, since I personally checked some tournaments on your checklist that received or did not receive three badges)
- lack of sufficient information support for tournament coverage
- lack of transparency in questions related to recruitment to the tournament committee (absence of any responses to applications within 6 months from the date of submission)
- lack of transparency in other regulations and procedures which were referred by chiv in his report
We will definitely return to the points that chiv indicated in his document. Last time, none of us signed an agreement with his document. Apparently, it was a mistake. Since the beginning of the year, the trust of the tournament committee as a structure has been completely undermined. In the early years, we were ready to defend you in controversial issues and discussions where it was really possible. At the moment, there is nothing but criticism left. We appreciate the work of individual TCom members who have repeatedly helped us in some particular situations, but it is the committee that can only be described in two terms.: "lack of competence" and "inappropriate position".
Further notifications will only be made personally to one of the members of the tournament committee, whom we trust, and other key members of the game staff.
I would also like to say a personal "ThankYou" for the tool for checking mappools, thanks to which I received your notification about the ban on holding tournaments with official support. Because this incident finally made it possible to verify the points above in a negative way. Moreover, it did not allow me to get enough sleep because it came at 2am Moscow time.
Best regards, ThankYou