Tryout Disasters: 4WC & OWC
29 July, 2025Last year near the end of 2024 I decided to try out in some tournaments and see how I could do. This will be a pretty short log for today.
osu! World Cup
Okay I wouldn't call my OWC tryout performance a disaster. I obviously knew I wasn't capable of playing in OWC yet. I decided to do this to see how I would do against others and to just have some fun.
The US does tryouts by having two pools, First week lower star (similar to a round of 32 or ro16 pool star rating) and next week higher star (Close to finals star rating), both weeks contain an A & B pool. I only played the first week since after the first week the maps got too hard for me and I really wanted to play MineCraft instead.
Pool A:
I am pretty happy that I almost nearly beat BTMC even though he was sight reading the pool and was already playing for multiple hours.
I did manage to set a really nice score on the HD2 map and managed to get 2nd in the lobby.
Other than that I didn't really have any other notable scores in the lobby. They were either all average or ( in the case when playing Hard Rock) completely died.
Pool B:
MP Link
Pool B was a much smaller lobby, which made it go a lot faster, and I found the maps more comfortable in this pool.
I managed get one of the top scores out of everyone who played the pool on Suzumiya's beautiful Kirby Mix like map.
4 Digit World Cup
4WC is very similar to OWC except only people ranked #10,000 - #1,000 are allowed to join. I was quite confident that I could stand a chance in this and potentially even be considered on the team but I unfortunately fumbled quite hard and it demotivated me enough that I didn't bother playing the second week pool. 3:
I placed 27th out of 65 players. It's not too bad but still quite a ways away from being considered for the team. I think I really could have done a lot better in my multi lobbies but due to my motivation and skill at the time I fumbled. My mouse fell of my mouse pad twice on accident since I had it in the wrong position xD.
That's about it for this log. A pretty short one that I have been meaning to write for months now but as a professional procrastinator I had to. I plan to write about my USC 2025 experience, my recent goals, and pop-offs i've had.