It's fine with me.
Also, if tournament staff needs something like streaming bandwidth (10mbps w00t) or something I'd be glad to help

Why didn't you edit the Tournament Schedule on the wiki if you're gonna postpone it?

- Korean Kiwi - wrote: 2q71z

Why didn't you edit the Tournament Schedule on the wiki if you're gonna postpone it?

The Reason is 1
Just Loctav can do that and he is have problem with his internet right now (hope he is back soon)

Hello everybody! As I predicted, I have to postpone the entire TWC by one week. Therefore, every stage will be one weekend later than actually planned. The streaming of the drawings will be taken over by some helping hand. I try my best to get back fully soon (12th Feb is the scheduled setup by my new ISP), meanwhile I try to compile and check all registrations and will the declared captains as soon as possible!

I will update the wiki and news announcement now.

Moreover, since I need to look into every single registration - and as my possibilities are quite restricted right now - I can not reopen the registration phase itself. I am very sorry for that and hope for your understanding. Right now, I have 118 individual registrations from 20 different countries.
As I can predict, it will most likely be a tournament consisting of 20 or 16 teams, smaller than last year, unfortunately. We will most likely stay with 3v3, but I can not give out definite answers yet. Moreover, we have no Japanese players. Maybe they missed it or had no interest? It's surprising, I expected a huge bunch of Japanese sign ups, there are a lot of players available - maybe someone can investigate?

Thanks for your patience and I try to make the best out of the current situation for myself. Let's hope I can avoid any further hassle resulting from this.

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Moreover, we have no Japanese players.

Holy moly

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Moreover, we have no Japanese players.

Holy moly

No Japan? Suddenly TWC just became wide open!

minhtam1638 wrote: 3j3l5g

No Japan? Suddenly TWC just became wide open!

Taiwan gogo

gegegegegegrgrgrgrgfgfgfgfghgfhghgh

I think that is the matter of language, and most importantly, having Japanese players will make the tournament better.

Niko-nyan wrote: 6m1841

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Moreover, we have no Japanese players.

Holy moly

1st place just became a free-for-all

Let's say the reason is known now. But it's up to them if they wanna comment about it.

Kuro wrote: 27g5g

2nd place just became free-for-all

We all know will get 1st <3

use this bit of extra time for pratice! also DRUM HYPE!

_Gezo_ wrote: 516q3b

Kuro wrote: 27g5g

2nd place just became free-for-all

We all know will get 1st <3

SACREBLEU

Finally Spain will win at least a single round
This extra week is perfect for me to get a mechanical keyboard
ALL ABOARD DRUM HYPE TRAAAIN

All accepted participants should have received a forum PM. Please read this carefully.

Some countries didn't get accepted despite ing enough people. Care to explain that please?

_verto_ wrote: 4j3n28

Some countries didn't get accepted despite ing enough people. Care to explain that please?

And some didn't get ed despite having received a confirmation PM...

i hope that teams list needs some updates...

A lot of teams have only 3 players. That's not good. That means if one person is missing, the other team wins by forfeit. Can't you allow team captains to go and fill their teams to the maximum 6?

Things gonna happen.

, it's your time to shine.
Hard to choose whether wins or Taiwan... or maybe Hong Kong. Inb4 betting game incoming /

RNGesus told me, that group D will be PL, FR, HK, TW
Doesn't matter, good luck, and have fun of course!

minhtam1638 wrote: 3j3l5g

A lot of teams have only 3 players. That's not good. That means if one person is missing, the other team wins by forfeit. Can't you allow team captains to go and fill their teams to the maximum 6?

has been like that for years. Unless you only want 8 teams, the way it is right now is fine

Will we really have group stage as there is only 16teams ? If yes nobody will be kicked out or the brackets will start with only 8 teams ?

I think that the group stage is just to can lay our team in the Ro16. Maybe no one will be delete from tournament after the group stage ^^.

I'm pretty confident at the fact that there were quite a number of registrations that were submitted from the Malaysian team.
So, why isn't our team on the list?

Jerry wrote: 3n3p6t

I'm pretty confident at the fact that there were quite a number of registrations that were submitted from the Malaysian team.
So, why isn't our team on the list?

Asked around and found out that there are AT LEAST 4 successful registrations from our country (Jerry, 1811, buhzidao and mine), which is more than the 3 that most accepted teams have

I'm pretty sure that all of our registrations were "valid and serious", since the four of us had participated in the previous TWC

So, care to explain why isn't our team on the accepted roster??

So it turns out actually , the team is formed by TM?

I finally know why no Japan player ing

TM didn't form the teams. Loctav sent the list of all participants to be checked and some of them have been rejected, that's why we have less players in teams that players that actually ed. And as you can have 6players per teams, if your country only get 6 or less validated player the team is obviously completed automatically.

Reasons for rejection will not be made public, so the best thing to do is that concerned players (rejected ones) send an email directly to TM to try to clarify the situation. Trust me it makes me feel sad as well but starting a drama here based on assumptions is not the right thing to do atm.

Wooo go USA take it home

glad you could make the team kuro!

check your own if you have a map with HDFL

I believe they didn't want to allow players that can do HDFL to this tournament~

I smell some relationshit why can get their full power in their team rosters and believe that they can get the #1 place with easily :c

People breaking the of services have been preliminarily filtered, as well as people who had a ranking below #8000. You may say majority of the teams were formed by me, this is true, but this only applied to those who had less than 6 ed s anyways. Why should I ask a TM to pick 5 people from a list that only consists of 5 people or even less?
If majority would simply stop breaking the osu! of services, we wouldn't have this discussion. It's not hard to stop creating multi s or let your be basically a whore where everybody plays on.
Not allowing cheaters is obvious, I guess. Filtering these people has been done for 3 years already. Whoever got filtered knows very well why. Who claims otherwise, blatantly lies.

The only countries who had more than 6 ed s remaining after filtering all registrations were and USA. In these cases, we declared a captain (MMzz and Nashmun in specific), presented them a list of all registrations and let them choose.

There is nothing wrong happening here. Japan did not because they misunderstood the ruleset, as explained by TKS to OnosakiHito.

Lightning Wyvern wrote: 1a6v36

check your own if you have a map with HDFL

I believe they didn't want to allow players that can do HDFL to this tournament~

I smell some relationshit why can get their full power in their team rosters and believe that they can get the #1 place with easily :c

pls i hdfl'd saitama does that count

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Filtering these people has been done for 3 years already. .

I still don't understand why our team got filtered despite the fact that we ed for the past 4 years without any issues at all.

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Whoever got filtered knows very well why. Who claims otherwise, blatantly lies.

"If you disagree you lie lol"

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

There is nothing wrong happening here.

So not allowing a country or two to participate because it's more convenient to run the tournament with 16 countries instead of 18 isn't wrong at all. Please remove your country from the world cup and allow an excluded country to participate instead if you really think there is nothing wrong happening.

cdhsausageboy wrote: 4qv6e

pls i hdfl'd saitama does that count

ofc that count
that's why there's only 4 people from my country from a total of 12 ed players orz

also

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Not allowing cheaters is obvious, I guess. Filtering these people has been done for 3 years already. Whoever got filtered knows very well why. Who claims otherwise, blatantly lies.

If you know which one is cheater and which isn't, why don't you ban them from a long time ago ? :<

Well at least you have 16 teams now (p. sure it was 15 when first announced but maybe I miscounted or you were able to get 1 more team)

good luck to the participants o/

keep calm and grab popcorn

Jerry wrote: 3n3p6t

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

Filtering these people has been done for 3 years already. .

I still don't understand why our team got filtered despite the fact that we ed for the past 4 years without any issues at all.

Maybe your decided to break the ToS between the last TWC and the current TWC?

Dear Loctav,

I just read the tournament rules carefully, and I didn't found a single word about " of Service", "Multi" or so.
If some of the applicants have broken the ToS, peppy should take care of them applying the current Osu! ruleset and the staff of this tournament should take care of his own rules.
Because of this, applying a simple rule inherit system, this tournament staff can't keep out an with multi (for example) because following Osu! rules their multi should have been erased long time ago (You even itted you know their multis by rejecting them), not banning their primary .

If even with this staff keeps rejecting more s, Spain (and not just Spain) will leave TWC 2015.

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

Dear Loctav,

I just read the tournament rules carefully, and I didn't found a single word about " of Service", "Multi" or so.
If some of the applicants have broken the ToS, peppy should take care of them aplying the current Osu! ruleset and the staff of this tournament should take care of his own rules.
Because of this, aplying a simple rule inherit system, this tournament staff can't keep out an with multi (for example) because following Osu! rules their multi should have been erased long time ago (You even itted you know their multis by rejecting them), not banning their primary .

If even with this staff keeps rejecting more s, Spain (and not just Spain) will leave TWC 2015.

+1

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

as well as people who had a ranking below #8000

How to kill non-popular countries

dani wrote: z336b

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

Dear Loctav,

I just read the tournament rules carefully, and I didn't found a single word about " of Service", "Multi" or so.
If some of the applicants have broken the ToS, peppy should take care of them aplying the current Osu! ruleset and the staff of this tournament should take care of his own rules.
Because of this, aplying a simple rule inherit system, this tournament staff can't keep out an with multi (for example) because following Osu! rules their multi should have been erased long time ago (You even itted you know their multis by rejecting them), not banning their primary .

If even with this staff keeps rejecting more s, Spain (and not just Spain) will leave TWC 2015.

+1

+2

Having multis place you with appropriate consequences. That we reject players due to ToS violation has been done for three years already and you never had a problem with it.

This is an official tournament. If you wish to participate in officla tournaments, you have to at least respect the simple of services you agreed on when g up to osu!. We do not let people participate in tournaments we invest in, if they can not even follow our simple ruleset. It's not much we want. We just want you to stop shitting on the community, the staff and our rules if you want to take part in something we put effort in.

Keep in mind that we only pay attention to offenses happened within the last year. If you stop disrespecting our rules now, you can freely participate next year.
I am sorry that you dislike that some of your friends were expelled, but it is their fault if they couldn't follow a simple ruleset. I am not the one to blame here. And stop acting like this is news to you. Because it isn't.

does it mean that the limitations of exchanging players are going to be removed from all other mode world cups in future as well? really curious cause i see it for the first time

world cup
16 countries

i dont have multi, why do i got rejected?

Elementaires wrote: 1q3e37

world cup
16 countries

Hey, it could be worse. The World Cup of Hockey only has 6 countries, and they had to make up 2 artificial teams among the rest of the good players.

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

Hey guys, Mr Color here coming in a little bit before this whole ordeal starts. As you guys know I'll be once more taking part in the play-by-play commentary for the event. I just wanted to introduce myself to the community once again in the middle of all the pre-cup drama. If you guys want to send me any pointers of things you feel I should mention on air about certain players, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the maps that will be used, I will of course be studying up to offer the most insightful commentary possible, but I won't refuse a little help doing that, so by all means feel free to hit me up with a forum PM and I'll make sure to note down any interesting info you guys will send my way.

You guys have a good one, and I'll see you for the drawings!

TWC needs your sexy voice, Mr Color.

Mr Color wrote: 2r8t

any pointers of things you feel I should mention on air about certain players, their strengths and weaknesses

B-but is this a good idea? Just hope there won't be any spies on the stream

inb4 - He's a HR monster, don't pick HR maps. Pick HD, because they are bad with it

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

peppy wrote: 73101g

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

That'd be very nice. It's a shame that countries like Russia, Japan, Ukraine or other countries with good players are not represented

peppy wrote: 73101g

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

This wouldn't change a thing.
Even with 2 weeks more, the outcome would have been the same.
This is about motivation, not time.

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

That'd be very nice. It's a shame that countries like Russia, Japan, Ukraine or other countries with good players are not represented

Japan didn't understand or didn't want to participate and Ukraine wasn't motivated.

Yup, we had a lot of countries with 2registrations, maybe we can PM them so that they can search for a third player ? We had registrations from 32 countries of so I guess we could easily gather more of them

The motivation is absolutely there (@Arrival) but all of them have either too less players (e.g. Ukraine), misunderstood the rules (e.g. Japan), don't have time (e.g. Netherlands) or their players got retired (e.g Russia). Some didn't even know about the TWC since they missed the information. So it's less about the motivation and more about the other things. I will also give a little transparency to you guys, so you are more certain about what has been done before (to come to Nashmuns suggestion):



I hope this could clear the air a bit. Will talk with Loctav about this.

Countries not having enough players are myths. A LOT of people doesn't want to because they think they'll loose anyway. Along the year I've been told hundred of times that countries like Italy don't have any players and that we should allow multicountries team, and what do we see here ? An Italian team within the 16participant.
Even Hungary could gather a team because they had the motivation to, don't tell me countries like Russia/Ukraine/Brazil do not have enough player, I know by fact they have.

EDIT : Before someone points it out : I do not say every country of the world can gather a team so no need to point out a country saying "You see, no players". But there are way more than 16countries with players <#5000, just by playing multiplayer mode you should be able to see that

I absolutely agree with that. I've just put the information in a compact way. But even so, there is more than that sometimes - proud, certain rules, wrong view about mappools and more. There are more factors which effect the opinion of players in a country. I ecountered alot of them. So I think it is also about how we represent this TWC?

OnosakiHito wrote: y4t4u

The motivation is absolutely there (@Arrival) but all of them have either too less players (e.g. Ukraine), misunderstood the rules (e.g. Japan), don't have time (e.g. Netherlands) or their players got retired (e.g Russia). Some didn't even know about the TWC since they missed the information. So it's less about the motivation and more about the other things.

Well when you have the motivation you're able to find players (Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K), or to find "time" (hey the whole NL team doesn't have the time, although all the other countries can , really ?). And come on, there are like 300 Japanese who are able to play in the TWC, don't tell me only ONE of them understood the rules...

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

I guess Kurai is right. I just wanted to show some transparency anyway, not debating about it. lol

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

OnosakiHito wrote: y4t4u

I guess Kurai is right. I just wanted to show some transparency anyway, not debating about it. lol

I guess you're both right. But I'm still wondering when will we have the justification for why we have been rejected ? It has been 2 days I sent an e-mail, and I still don't know what I did wrong. But as Loctav said, I must be lying...

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

So Japan wasn't proud of winning last year because no Taiwan team ? Taiwan has a better TWC history than Japan (2wins out of 3participations), people tend to forget that and think Japan is some kind of superior entity that cannot be defeated while it's not.

Anyway, I think we all agree that we'd like to see more countries represented, but we cannot force them to participate, even more when some of them do it on purpose just because they hope it will lead to allowing multicountries team

And we demand to ban those multi when discovered

If someone want to the match and found out they have multi and being kicked, it looks like the official is just making up reason for banning some player to .

If they have been banned before they can send the registration letter, no one will think they are selectively excluded.

Does this mean I can invite my friend from the same country to increase my country rosters ?

If Indonesia had XK / Nishi / Aesa / GH / LW / pmriva team combination then we're equally as strong as 8D

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

As explained by peppy, we decided to extend the registration phase for another two weeks. Make sure to this competition to your friends and everyone who is a potential candidate for your country's team

How does the registration work exactly now? 2t2246

1. Everyone is g up individually for their country by sending a forum PM to me.
2. We roughly filter the ed s by their play performance and/or if they violated the osu! community rules (see below for details)
3. Whenever we finished filtering the ed s, the players who ed will be put on a candidate list for their country
4. The Tournament Management declares a captain from said list. This captain receives the list with the remaining candidates. Captains can freely pick from this list and found their team as they wish.
5. After sending the Tournament Management the compiled team, your team has been successfully created.

Obviously, people who ed successfully already do not need to re-. They are already recorded.

What do you filter ed s by? m105k

We filter by:

1. Taiko performance ranking. Whoever has a global Taiko performance ranking below #8000 will be filtered out. While we want to let participate as many people as possible, the mappools are designed around a certain difficulty level. It's very likely that people below a performance ranking below #8000 will not be able to play the tournament's maps at all. If they improve, they are free to !
2. Violation of the community rules: https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/wiki/Rules - In order to take part on any official tournament that is sponsored and organized by the osu!staff, you need to obey the community rules. Even though violating some of these specific rules do not lead to a full ban immediately, we still exclude everyone who offended within the last year. This includes creating multi-s, sharing your with others or using third-party software or other illegal software modifications. Not every rule is directly involved into the tournament outcome, but as long as you can not follow the community rules, we are not willing to let you an official competition. We would like to mention that we have been holding that requirement up for several years already and have been performed these checks ever since then. This is nothing new and moreover nothing arbitrary. We just want to inform you again that ing the TWC has these requirements. If you ever want to compete in the TWC, we advise you to stop violating the rules now.

Due to privacy issues, we will not reveal to the public who was rejected. Whoever wants to know or dispute the fact that they have been filtered by either of the above criteria is free to [email protected].

As by today, we extend the registration phase till 22nd February 2015, 23:59:59 UTC+0. Please send your forum PM titled "TWC Registration" to me till then. Please add your time zone to the message, so we can schedule you properly later.

All other parts of the tournaments will be, obviously, postponed according to this. We are sorry for the incovenience, but we want to make this TWC the best it can be.

As more countries and people are ing this competition, we are increasing the maximum number of teams. Whoever didn't appear on the team listing so far (Chile and Hungary) will be added later. We want to await more registrations from said countries.

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Loctav I think everyone here understand the rule, so no need to keep repeating the ToS here.

We all know using third-party software or multi or blahblah should get banned.

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

- Korean Kiwi - wrote: 2q71z

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

when i see your pp rank, your taiko rank is #16,890 that still far

MMzz wrote: 2g46e

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Only with a 4v4 TWC, which depends on the number of ed s

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

MMzz wrote: 2g46e

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Only with a 4v4 TWC, which depends on the number of ed s

So you want to be sure there are enough back ups, but don't want to increase the limits ?

It could be a good safety net for some matches imo...

I think 3 backups is too much for just 3 players. Maybe with only 1 backup we could gather more teams where the entire team plays. This could even able 4+2 teams

Niko-nyan wrote: 6m1841

- Korean Kiwi - wrote: 2q71z

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

when i see your pp rank, your taiko rank is #16,890 that still far

Yeah, I realized that I dropped to that rank...

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

I think 3 backups is too much for just 3 players. Maybe with only 1 backup we could gather more teams where the entire team plays. This could even able 4+2 teams

But the maximum 6 players in the team will decrease the risk of getting a win by default.

I made this year another banner. Hope you guys like it and can find good use for it!

But it's called 2015, not #5 :C you should at least use the correct name

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Still haven't gotten a confirmation PM even though I formatted everything correctly, should I be worried?

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Is this the reason why we only have 16 countries in? well that's sad
If the limit is 8k I don't see the problem.
You don't sign up to show off your high ranks, you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...
or I'm too naive, welp

Earine wrote: n5d1u

you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...

This is the kind of players we need in a dying gamemode community.

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

Earine wrote: n5d1u

you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...

This is the kind of players we need in a dying gamemode community.

This gamemode is more active than its ever been.
#6yearobservation

Earine wrote: n5d1u

or I'm too naive, welp

Yes you are

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Are you trolling, or just stupid ? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

In that case let's make only one final with JP and TW to decide who will win this TWC. No ?

It's because of people like you if this tournament is stuck with 16 countries or so. If you play with the top #4K you can go to the RO16 easily, but Mister Pagliacco's ego looks a bit too high and overdeveloped to play with 4K players.. That's sad...

Oh btw the #6 in Ukraine is #1300. But still too noob fo you huh ?

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Are you trolling, or just stupid ? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

In that case let's make only one final with JP and TW to decide who will win this TWC. No ?

It's because of people like you if this tournament is stuck with 16 countries or so. If you play with the top #4K you can go to the RO16 easily, but Mister Pagliacco's ego looks a bit too high and overdeveloped to play with 4K players.. That's sad...

Oh btw the #6 in Ukraine is #1300. But still too noob fo you huh ?

Are you just trolling, or just stupid? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

If your team is not well-balanced by level of players, you're just sucker.

Most of teams have a balanced roasters with a close rank gap between a players.

If you gonna play TWC with 4k ppl, you just gonna rage cuz of you cant with by yourself.

If you gonna play TWC "just for fun" - go and play MP then with noobs.

Shut the fuck up noob and don't say any stupid things more.

^ if a true 4k ranked player (just about his skill) plays the tournament and can barely clear simple Oni, it probably won't be that fun to play for him. Just like me playing some Firce Force difficulties, i honestly won't have fun doing it just because this is too far from my "skill" yet. pagliaccio maybe meant something like that.

Then if there are enough "good" players in his country, they also might not be active or want to play the TWC. Well i have no idea about his real situation but it is not hard to understand him if he does not want to play the TWC for any of these reasons. Also i will never know the feeling but i can imagine that it is not that fun to lose as a team, even when you did reallly good, because you don't have enough "good" players (that's why i am afraid if i have to play a match here lol, i don't want to make my team lose).

Also is there a way to remove someone from a full team to get someone else in ? In case i should leave for someone stronger.

edit: ok nvm posted 2 l8

If you think you need a team <#500 to play TWC then you are completely wrong, and Arrival is right, you are making TWC fails.

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

If you gonna play TWC "just for fun" - go and play MP then with noobs.

So nobody should be able to participate then ? Because even with 3 Pagli in your team you would still not be able to win the tournament, so it wouldn't be worth playing either ?
Keep in mind that if a majority of teams sign up with players 1-2k, all of these teams have more or less equal chances to get through group stage and win 1 or more match in knock-out stages.

No need to insult people and especially when your argumentation is pointless.

;_;

lolcubes wrote: 331p4a

SPOILER

;_;

oh god.. o_o'

such a shame

Didn't mean to start a flame so pls no

But yea, what I meant was pretty much what Nashmun said
More people, even with 1k and +, means more fun for their equals
We already know high rank players will be stronger (you can't deny skills ofc) but I don't see nothing wrong in having a little fun before they take the spot

Earine wrote: n5d1u

Didn't mean to start a flame so pls no

But yea, what I meant was pretty much what Nashmun said
More people, even with 1k and +, means more fun for their equals
We already know high rank players will be stronger (you can't deny skills ofc) but I don't see nothing wrong in having a little fun before they take the spot

I highly ire your mindset. People should think more like you.
Everyone who wants to play shall sign up! Stop being afraid of being too weak. You better earn your tournament experiences now~

Well, people might be ignoring one simple fact which is that some people, despite their rank, don't enjoy this tournament.
Just because they don't, it doesn't mean other people from the same country are prohibited to as well.

lolcubes wrote: 331p4a

SPOILER

;_;

<3 this one so cute

btw please don't blame anyone if you don't like him/her. this event only for fun

As long as players and stuff think that TWC is "just for fun" event, and force players to it with no reason, it sucks compare to OWC.

Anyways as captain of Ukraine team of previous TWC, after discussion with other active players we decided not to take part this year, the reasons is explained above. Now stop the flame about Ukraine team.

cutecubes <3