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Mighty Meow Cup

Dear Navigators,

Do you want to test your skill and participate in an official open tournament?
Well I'm thrilled to announce I'll be hosting the **Mighty Meow Cup ** where you can compete against some of the best teams around the world!

Tournament Details 🏆

Dates (Times Below Will be converted to your local time!) 📆

Qualifier: <t:1737244800:f> - <t:1737259200:t>, <t:1737331200:f> - <t:1737345600:t>
Knockout Stage: 1/25 - 1/26; 2/1 - 2/2

Prize 💸

Prize Pool: $2000
All Participants: 3600 Dream Tokens
Top 16: 980 Base String
Top 8: 1600 Base String
Top 4 : 2260 Base String
One random participant will be gifted a mythic skin!

Sign Ups 🔍

Duration:
<t:1734940800:f> - <t:1736927940:f>
Each Team needs 5 main players and up to 2 substitute players. Each person may not be a part of more than one team.
Feel free to find some teammates in #1320701965029871616
https://forms.gle/nFaGdcf64cJ4rfSw9

If you have any questions, feel free to dm me. Any game related questions like **format **or **available characters ** will be answers in the upcoming tournament rulebook

Good Luck Everyone!

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Hey guys! BriBri here with a quick Q&A and update on general questions about Mighty Meow cup! (Sry for taking long time! it took a bit to plan everything! )

Q: Is there an restriction on who can participate?
A: There is none, Anyone who wants to play can form a team can join!

Q: How are rewards going to be distributed?
A: For the $2000 main prize pool, its going to be distributed as follow to each team (not player)
1st: $800
2nd: $400
3rd & 4th: $200
5-8th: $100

On top of that, we are going even more rewards!!!

The following rewards will be giving by lottery! Anyone who participate (even as sub) will get in the lottery.

The following rewards are individual rewards (players, not teams)

Mythic skin (will be converted to **9600 **Pablo crystals); Quantity - 1
150 Base String; Quantity - 15
1 Memory Sequence; Quantity - 10
3 Memory Sequence; Quantity - 5

The following rewards are for the team as a whole

**5000 **Bablo Crystals; Quantity - 2
**3000 **Bablo Crystals; Quantity - 2

Q: How will teams deal with ping?
A: Initially, we thought it would be mostly NA players signing up. But thanks to everyone's support, we have way more teams from different regions. So we will be dividing the qualifier into regions! How many region and number of teams promoting within each region will be decided after we finalize all the teams. The time of the qualifier will not change as teams have already signed up for the currently decided time. We will also decide ping issues during knockout stage after team finalization.

GL guys!

(p.s. DM me if you got more questions. if we get more teams than expected, I might be able to bump up the rewards!)

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Quick Update!

Tournament Signups ends <t:1736927940:R>. Make sure to sign up before then!

If you have a change of roster, please fill out the form below! Deadline is the same as the signups

https://forms.gle/wnCsYbPrg5ET9ZP67

Rulebook

Rulebook will be out either later this week or early next week, apologies for taking a bit with this one.

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We will be posting brackets for qualifiers as soon as the signups end. Meaning

Teams will be able to schedule and play against their opponents before the designated time!!!

However, if both teams aren't able to schedule beforehand, then they need to play at the designated time. Failure to do so will result in a DQ.

Hope this allows all regions to play at a more comfortable time.

Sign ups ends <t:1736927940:R>!

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Update for MMC!

Here are all the currently signed up teams!

Please make sure your team is in there and all the members are correct.

🔴 IF YOU DONT SEE YOUR TEAM, I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE APPLICATION!!! 🔴

This is updated as of 12:00 am PST 1/13/25

Captains

If you are the captain for your team, you should have received the <@&1328282389717319730> role. Please lmk if you haven't！

🔴 Deadline for ANY change/signups ends <t:1736927940:R> 🔴

If there are any problems regarding anything, Please fill out the problem form below!
Rulebook coming out prob Tuesday or early Wednesday

Sign up form:
https://forms.gle/nFaGdcf64cJ4rfSw9
Roster Change Form:
https://forms.gle/TaWgd4rN1544aXzL6
Problem Form:
https://forms.gle/sfRSDtEegZ8yi3jT9

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<@&1320706883887042621>
Updated Roster as of 12:00am PST 1/14/25

If you don't see your team/yourself on here, please report immediately!! ⚠️

Report using forms here-> #unofficial-tournament-news message

Everything finalizes <t:1736927940:R>

Nothing changes after this time, PERIOD. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Thank you everyone for the support! we are getting close to 150 teams! This is the biggest open tournament Strinova has ever held!!!

🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌

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Mid day update of all new teams!

SANWA
GachaAddicts
Landmine Girls Researchers
ECTH
ususSquad
Towewew
Spica
i've played these games before
SystemFailure
Simply Chapat
Mighty Cat Ciko
kanami legs
Ghost
The Unnamed
DSMW
Last Minute萌萌
los glorp
Пивовары
ThirstForGlory
Pivozavriki
Femboy Union
We can't all Bottom Frag
os perdedores
Зверохуанчики

important

Team Night Raid and 8 are not signed up due to member conflict. Please fix before the cutoff, thanks! || @hasty locust @river pilot ||

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New teams as of 18:17pst

Team YZ
Team Bingus
Don Pepe y Los Tilines
Los Michis de Michele
Flatlands
PocketWife
OnIce
NovaStronda
WD

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Captain role will be updated later tonight
|| Plz don't bully my DMs more , just fill the problem sheet qwq ||

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<@&1320706883887042621>
Thank you guys soooo much for the huge amount of support for this tournament.

Here is the final roster for the tournament! Total of **179 **teams!

**🔴 NO MORE CHAGES WITH THE ROSTER!!!🔴 ** if there are any **errors ** with the roster due to my mistake , please directly dm me asap .

I know everyone is waiting for the bracket and rulebook

I promised that it will be out Wednesday (pst) and I will make it happen. However, the total amount of teams more than doubled our expectation, with more than 80 entries in the last 48 hours of the signup time. We had to rework our entire format and rewrite a lot of our rulebook. Please be patient as we are sleeplessly figuring this out. But Wednesday for sure! (pst) I will be streaming team placement in brackets so this will ensure fairness. Recording will be available after I do so!

We will also add another week for the tournament due to its shear size.

This should only impact 4 teams and we will take measures so everything goes as smoothly as possible. Sincere apologies to the 4 teams that may be impacted by this. (details will be in the rulebook)

🔽 [A quick brief for what we now have planned (NOTHING IS FINAL BELOW, THE RULEBOOK WILL THE THE FINALIZED VERSION)] 🔽

week 1 (Qualifiers)
Within each region, teams will be split into groups of roughly 5-6 teams. They will play a round robin bo1 within each group and there will be 1 winning team from each group, They will advance to the next stage.
week 2 (Regional Tops)
Teams within the same region will compete for spots for the Global Top 16 in a Double Elimination bo3. Spots for each region will be relatively proportional to the amount of teams that signed up in that region.
week 3 (Global Top 16)
Double Elimination BO3, winning teams will go to Global Top 4
week 4* (Global Top 4)
Double Elimination BO3, where all matches will be streamed (hopefully). Due to the unforeseen extra week, date and time will be as flexible as possible for the teams.

AGAIN, NOTHING IS FINAL HERE, EVERYTHING WILL BE FINALIZED IN THE RULEBOOK.
Sooooooo sorry for the late announcement , I've been at this for over 8hrs by now qwq

Good LUCK!!!

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I'm live making the brackets!!!!

join me at
https://www.twitch.tv/bribri_tsg
https://discord.gg/FxqNBbxj

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so sorry about the re-ping, I made quite a lot of small mistakes during the planning and needed to change some things. everything should be completely good to go.

Dear Navigator!

The long awaited Brackets and Rulebook is OUT!!!

Soooo sorry about takin this long. the was so out of expectation and just really show how dedicated this community is!

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🛑 Make sure you thoroughly read thought the rulebook. there will be many things that can get you disqualified! 🛑

Here are ***some *** of the most important ones to look after

1. make sure all rules in the **custom **is **correct **(4.3 in rulebook)
   2.make sure **all **players on the opposing team is on their roster （4.4 in rulebook)
   3 make sure all match **result ** **submission ** is correct!

IF THE BRACKET IS CONFUSING HERE IS AN EXAMPLE

1. my team (MLR) is team B in bracket F of of NA, which has 5 teams.
2. I go to ***5 team round robin *** and look for all the matches within my bracket with B on it
3. If the B is under attack, I will start that match attack first; vise versa

If you need Visual guidance, here is a Video

Times of official Matches are as below (times are converted to your **local **time) :

Everything below is considered Qualifiers Stage 1!

Day 1
Match 1: <t:1737244800:f>
Match 2: <t:1737247200:f>
Match 3: <t:1737249600:f>
Match 3.5: <t:1737250800:f>

Day 2
Match 4: <t:1737331200:f>
Match 5: <t:1737333600:f>
Match 6: <t:1737336000:f>

Teams can schedule with their opponents and play matches beforehand!!!

To contact the opposing team, <@&1328282389717319730> can use here to search for their captain. Match Scheduling will be through dms.

DM me if you have any questions.

Week 1 of qualifiers wont be streamed. I will stream my perspective on my channel though

It's such a delight to be hosting this tournament. I'll be looking forward to it!!!!

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NOTE, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT SECTION 4.3.2, SUPER IMPORTANT

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<@&1328282389717319730>
Here is some elaboration on parts of the Rulebook:

2.4.1 Qualifiers Stage One,

"..use a Round Robin format with..."
The winner of the Round Robin will be decided as follows. If more than one team meets the requirement, they shall move on to the next requirement until only one team passes.

1. Have the highest number of wins within your bracket
2. Compare head to head scores (usually with only 2 teams)
3. Compare round score difference within the teams (usually with 3 or more teams)
4. Compare time taken to win
5. Compare the amount of kills on the team.

If the results are still not clear (at the referee and tournament organizers' discretion) a rematch will be taken.

6.2.4 Exploiting Bugs

If the player was not intentionally using a bug and the bug was due to the game error, the match plays on. If you suspect an enemy player intentionally used a bug, please contact tournament officials as soon as the match ends.

[For simplicity sake, you nor your utility (excluding non breakable objects) may not kill nor inflict damage to a player where the opponent isn't able to shoot back at said player nor utility. (I.e. no Michele ult lineups where the enemy can't shoot it). Breakable utilities (like interceptor / Michele bots) must also be placed at a place there it is breakable)]
All bug related rulings will be at the discretion of the referee and tournament organizers.

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Heads up

Due to the banning of Yugiri, teams were able to pick multiple of the same character in the match.

**DO NOT PICK MULTIPLE OF THE SAME CHARACTER ON ONE SIDE AS IT WILL RESULT IN A FORFEIT **

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MLR VS GG Match RN!!!!!!!!

twitch.tv/bribri_tsg

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If a double pick does occur, by technicality your team did forfeit. However, if both teams agree to rematch/redo something, I will have no objections. (If done on official time, please make sure you are able to make it into your next match on time.)

This applies to other things, as long as both teams agree it's fine with me. However, if problems occur (I.e. the opponent was winning 7-1 and the 1 team accidentally double picked. Then both teams wanted a rematch of 2nd half and somehow it became 7-9. The 7 team cannot demand a un-rematch as rematching is a consent that they will not force a forfeit.) screen shot evidence is needed for any debate between 2 teams. If proof is missing from both teams, then it will be a 0-0

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<@&1328282389717319730> if there are any problems that occur during the games, (first game in 40 mins) you guys can also ping <@&1322811463357694074> for any help!

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Important Notice!

Strinova, Mighty Meow Cup Organizers, as well as myself will not tolerate any type of hate speech nor offensive language or actions of any type!
We are trying to keep a safe and comfortable community for all navigators, and we welcome players of any sort to join. However, any action that is taken within the community that will physically or mentally harm another member in is **prohibited **.
For this tournament, any light offense of this will result with a warning.
Any severe offences related to Strinova can and will result in a mute/ban/or kick from the **tournament, event, community, or game. **
Please keep this community healthy and long lasting, many members in this community truly enjoy this environment, don't ruin it please.

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Thank you everyone for participating in the MMC Qualifiers Stage One!

Here are some new for you all

Promoting teams :

APAC:

GachaAddicts
Malevolence
Last Minute萌萌
Become Paper
Spica
FATDOGs
Say_Gegs
GUGF(give us girlfriend)

EU:

Abobus Team
Drillas
何ですか
Floridiana FC
Kwan Grindset
ThirstForGlory
Drillas Academy
EuroPEEans

NA/SA:

glorpnation
taco tuesday
Sellouts
The Cat Collectors
Temu Avengers
MLR
WOC
Low Ping Enjoyers
Meowzzii
AAAAAAA
KITTEN ROLL CALL
McDonalds
Rhodes Island
Strinova Sigmas
Espresso
The Grustlers

Revival Match / 2nd Chance

In the **original format **I've planned, there were a repechage matches that gave you a 2nd chance if you had bad luck. However, due to the exploding size of the tournament, we had to take it out for organization and **time **sake. We are currently still discussing on the possibility of this as it is being highly demanded.

Qualifiers Stage 2

Here is what is coming for Qualifiers Stage 2:

1. All matches will be BO3 (I'm changing rule book) with ban picks!!!
2. Match time will be Regional Times , meaning it will be better suited for each region.
3. First to 2 Swiss rounds, with No seeding (streaming bracket making tonight PST). 8 Teams promote from NA, 4 from EU, 4 from APAC
4. Matches will be Streamed (Twitch.tv/bribri_tsg) with @austere frigate and @covert stump as casters

Currently thinking of match time as follows (lmk how it is for your region as its my first time doing multiple regions)
APAC: UTC +8 7pm
EU: UTC +0 7pm
NA/SA: UTC -8 5pm

Dream Token for any participants will be given around this week

(supposedly, that's what the Strinova staffs told me, so....)

Other rewards will be given out towards the end of the tournament, raffling on stream

If you have an problem with the promoting teams or any questions in general, feel free to DM me

MEOW!

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Update on Qualifiers Stage 2

Due to high demand, we are ADDING A REVIVAL MATCH!!!!

This will be implemented into Qualifiers Stage 2. Teams that qualify one of the standards below are able to signup and play in qualifiers stage 2.

1. Placed 2nd in your bracket in Qual 1
2. Placed 3rd in your bracket and had a close game with 2nd place in Qual 1 (5-9 or higher)

To keep things fair

ALL teams from the revival match will start with a standing of -1-1
please refer to picture for more clarity (picture is NA, divide all numbers by 2 for APAC/EU). （TLDR, If you lose 2 times, you're out, if you're from revival, you only get to lose once before getting out.)

There are limited amount of spots for the revival match!!!!

(8EU, 8APAC, 16 NA)

Sign ups will end on Thursday noon PST

Make sure you sign up!!!
link is here:
here

Brackets will also be made at that time, sorry about the delay.

The list of teams that can sign up are as below:

[AL]TEAM
2Dcutts
AeRo Gaming
Asian Avengers
burningstar kokona krihcity krihville
Butter Dog
Dailies In Queue
Dream Token Lover
ECTH
FlamDogs
Ghost
Golden Guard
Inceptionist
jokers
kanami legs
Kokonut
L33T d0r1t0z
Loyalist
Menhera
Merendah
Michele's Ekittens
Michelle's Kittens (MK)
Ming
Mingers
NekoKoneko
Night Republic
Resonation
Rovers
Shadow Syndicate abb. (SS)
Shadow Wizard Money Gang
SIGMA BOIS
SMH Consortium
Stringifries
Submissive
Team YZ
Viri Unitis
Virtual Virtue
We can't all Bottom Frag
アジマ (Ajima)
電子寵物

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Brackets for Qualifier Stage 2 is OUT!!!

If you don't see yourself on the Revival bracket, you didn't make it in the available spots qwq.

Things to note:

1. You may play your first BO3 early. However, the 2nd match can only start after every team finish, so you will play at the official time (Matches highlighted in green will be STREAMED. Same rules as Qualifiers 1
2. Official time for each region is different, please check your time below please!!!
3. For the **2nd **match, teams that win their **first **match from revival bracket will fight teams that **lost **their first match from normal bracket. This is to ensure fairness to the teams that won Qualifiers 1.
4. I abbreviated all the team names so they can fit on the bracket,, the list of **abbreviations **can be found here!

If you don't know how to find your team/ban-pick, here is a video explaining it!

Match Times ⏰ (Time stamped to your local time!):

Each one is a BO3!
Match 1
APAC: <t:1737802800:f>
EU: <t:1737831600:f>
NA: <t:1737853200:f>

Match 2
APAC: <t:1737808200:f>
EU: <t:1737837000:f>
NA: <t:1737858600:f>

Match 3
APAC: <t:1737889200:f>
EU: <t:1737918000:f>
NA: <t:1737939600:f>

Match 4
APAC: <t:1737894600:f>
EU: <t:1737923400:f>
NA: <t:1737945000:f>

<@&1328282389717319730> , make sure you submit your match result 10 min before your next game/deadline. Deadline for your final game is Within 20min after you finish your final match

if you start a match less than 30 mins before your next match, please notify me or <@&1322811463357694074> so we wont DQ you.

DQ time for failure to show up is changing from 5 min -> 10 min for BO3

LMK if you guys have any questions!

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Due to a mess-up on my part, the team Night Republic was accidentally placed into the revival group instead on the team Shadow Wizard Money Gang. Team SWMG will take team NR's placed in the bracket. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused,.

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<@&1320706883887042621> <@&1328282389717319730>

Breaking News for Mighty Meow Cup!!!

We got a HUGEEE bracket for next weekend!

3 of the BEST teams in NA and 1 of the top team in APAC are competing in the same bracket, only 2 teams make it out!!!

Join us on <t:1738440000:f> and <t:1738526400:f> and watch it LIVE here

Good Luck Everyone!

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Brackets for Top 8!!!

Match 1-4 and Match 12 can be scheduled at a earlier time. Match 15 is TBD if it happens.

Reasoning for the time:

After thingking for 2 days and taking advice from experienced organizer, we came to this decision. Currently, the top 8 teams have 3 NA, 3 APAC, and 2 EU. Meaning there a relatively even number of teams from each region. Trying to find an optimal time for all people in nearly impossible considering teams can play up to 3 BO3 in a single day, which is about 5ish hours.
I do know that MMC was originally planned as a NA tournament and its difficult for NA teams to make this time. However, It would be irresponsible of me to ask APAC teams to play until/from 10am on a Monday morning, Putting the date on Friday would also cause problems since the dates of tournament was posted to be 2/8+2/9. This is the reasoning behind the timing of this the top 8. I personally rather have teams complaining about timing but still be able to make it rather than putting a time that hard stops a region completely and still get complains.

I sincerely apologize to any teams who are uncomfortable with this time slot. For future tournaments, it will be regionals instead of entirely global.
-BriBri

bracket making vod is available, did it on discord this time so its a recording.

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Congratulations to all the winners of the Prize Lottery! 🎉

Here are the list of the winners!
Please respond to me in dms within 72 hours as of this message. Only team captain need to dm me for team rewards.
Failure to do so will be taken as a forfeit on the prize, then a re-roll will be taken for unclaimed prizes.

Individual Rewards

150 Base String

@grand arrow @tidal kite @nocturne gazelle @tawny vale @lament spear@forest hound @pale geyser @mystic pendant @eternal canopy @halcyon karma @manic scaffold @neat depot @warm falcon @fair flicker@gilded vault

1x Memory Sequence

@obtuse coyote @devout elm @untold nebula @kind mica @cherrylan ( @crisp pagoda please contact your teammate) @summer iris @delicate night @neon jasper @severe iron @final harbor

3x Memory Sequence

@compact perch @wz79 （@dim crystal please contact your teammate) @empty magnet @grave moss @lavish jay

9600 Bablo Crystals

@crude frigate

Team Rewards

3000 Bablo Crystals

GachaAddicts @past mulch
Merendah @hard plume

5000 Bablo Crystals

Saper Pex @silver sedge
Team Onigiri @rose vault

Again, huge thanks to all participants! Future tournaments will have even more rewards so stay tuned!!!

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APAC Ayatori Cup

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NA Mighty Meow Cup 2

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EU Origami Cup 2

TBD