User blog:712a/Garupa Cup 4

Garupa Cup 4
The fourth season of Garupa Cup retains most of the rules and format from the previous season, including Individual Competition and Team Competition (players form teams of 3 by entering the Player IDs of their 2 teammates).

Official Website: https://bang-dream.bushimo.jp/event/garupa-cup4/

First qualifying round
Will run from 2022/7/2 12:00 JST to 2022/7/4 11:59 JST.

Contestants/Teams challenge to the two songs without limit to post their highest score for each song.

Songs:


 * CORUSCATE-DNA-
 * Melissa

(any difficulty can be played, and are the same for Individual/Team Competition)

Up to 1,000 contestants & up to 100 teams with the highest combined total score (and fastest play time, in case of tied score) progress to the second qualifying round.

//During the first qualifying round, those who use Data Transfer more than once will be disqualified to strengthen the prevention of fraudulent play by others.

Second qualifying round
Will run from 2022/7/30 12:00 JST to 2022/8/1 11:59 JST.

Contestants/Teams challenge to the two songs without limit to post their highest score for each song.

Songs:


 * R・I・O・T
 * Goodbye Sengen

(any difficulty can be played, and are the same for Individual/Team Competition)

25 contestants & 4 teams with the highest combined total score (and fastest play time, in case of tied score) progress to the championship.

//During the second qualifying round, those who use Data Transfer more than once will be disqualified to strengthen the prevention of fraudulent play by others.

Championship (Individual)
Will run on 2022/9/11, in a studio in Tokyo.

Quarterfinals
Each group of five plays one common song and one song unique to the group.

Common song: Donten (EXPERT 27)

Unique songs:


 * Sorairo Days (SPECIAL 27)
 * Asu no Yozora Shoukaihan (SPECIAL 27)
 * SURVIVOR Never Give Up! (SPECIAL 27) - returned from GC3 Individual Quarters
 * Maware! Setsugetsuka (EXPERT 27) - returned from GC2 Semis
 * Repaint (EXPERT 27)

Two contestant with the highest combined score in each group (for a total of 10) move onto the semifinals.

Semifinals
Each group of five plays one common song and one song unique to the group.

Common song: R (SPECIAL 28)

Unique songs:


 * Hey-day Capriccio (EXPERT 28) - return from GC2 Semis
 * flame of hope (SPECIAL 27)

One contestant with the highest combined score in each group (for a total of 2) moves onto the final.

Final
The two finalists plays two songs. The finalist with the higher combined score wins the 3rd Garupa Cup Individual Competition.

Songs:


 * Setsuna Trip (SPECIAL 29) - returned from GC3 Team Finals
 * ??? (SPECIAL 30?)

The second song will be revealed on the day of the competition. It will be one of the songs released in the game, with the SPECIAL chart being seen for the first time in the tournament. SP notes (curved slides & directional flicks) will appear in the chart as well.

Championship (Team)
Will run on 2022/9/11 at the same venue as the Individual Championship.

Overall rules
Each match consists of 2 teams playing 5 games, and the first to win 3 games win the match.

For each game:


 * The song for the 1st game is randomly selected, then the team that lost the previous game can choose one of the remaining songs.
 * One player from each team will play against the player from the other team.
 * Each team member can play up to 2 games. Once a member has played a game, he/she cannot play the following 2 games.

Semifinals
4 teams are divided into 2 matches. The winning team of each match moves onto the finals.

Songs:


 * Sugar Song to Bitter Step (EXPERT 28) - returned from GC3 Team Semis
 * God knows... (EXPERT 28) - returned from GC2 Finals
 * Zettai Sengen ~Recital~ (SPECIAL 28)
 * Daylight (SPECIAL 27) - returned from GC3 Second Qualifiers
 * Kyouen Red x Violet (EXPERT 28)

Final
2 winning teams in the semifinals compete, and the winning team wins the 3rd Garupa Cup Team Competition.

Songs:


 * GO! GO! MANIAC (SPECIAL 28)
 * Ringing Bloom (EXPERT 28) - returned from GC3 Individual Finals
 * Amanojaku (SPECIAL 29)
 * HELL! or HELL? (SPECIAL 30) - returned from GC3 Individual Finals
 * CATASTROPHE BANQUET (EXPERT 29)