Triple Cross Battle Royale 2026: Steppers Cup (SIGNUPS OPEN)

Hello!

Triple Cross is gearing up to run one of our flagship tournaments of the year, our annual Battle Royale, but this time around we have implemented a bunch of changes to completely flip the traditional BR style contest on its head, whilst still maintaining that competitive edge that BR always brings out of people!

This year, after a round of qualifiers, players will be matched up against other participants in this new contest format with drawn groups, tournament arcs, and exciting, unpredictable matchups!

This contest will run in a new multi-stage tournament format designed to be more dynamic, more competitive, more accessible, and more exciting to follow from round to round, and here is how:

QUALIFICATION & GROUPS
🟢 Round 1: Qualifier
This is the beginning of the contest, and everyone enters together!
All submissions are scored, and the field is ranked. By submitting and participating in this round, you are already guaranteed to participate!
The results of this round determine seeding for the groups, the main stage of the contest. This is done by splitting all competitors into 4 equal pools based on their Qualifier performance:
Pool 1: First Top 25%
Pool 2: Second quartile
Pool 3: Third quartile
Pool 4: Bottom 25%

🟠 Rounds 2 & 3: First Group Stage
ALL Participants are placed into groups of 4, with one person from each pool (1, 2, 3, 4) in each group. Each group competes across 2 rounds. Scores from both rounds are combined, the top 2 in each group move on, the bottom 2 are eliminated. That means that every participant is guaranteed to be able to submit 3 files!

🔵 Rounds 4 & 5: Second Group Stage
Everyone who advanced then gets shuffled into new groups of 4 - you stay with the other participant in your previous group who made it out together with you!
Again, there are 2 rounds, combined score determines ranking, and top 2 from each group move on.

🟣 Rounds 6 & 7: The Final
After the two group stages, the remaining participants (about 1/4th of all participants) compete together in the final stage. Everyone submits in 2 final rounds, and combined score from both rounds determines the winner of Battle Royale 2026: Steppers Cup, who gets to host and choose themes for Summer Contest 2026, alongside the winner of Summer Contest 2025, chrononical!

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So if you are a simfile artist, be it a newcomer or a veteran, feel free to join us if you can! The users within Triple Cross are extremely good at providing quality written and constructive feedback of your charting abilities every week, so even if it seems a bit daunting to some of you there is an extemely high chance that you come out of the experience with some new charting knowledge!

We revealed this contest on our Discord about 5 hours ago and we already have 36 charters signed up! We would love to have more people involved, and even if you don't want to participate in the charting side then you can still play and vote on a bunch of exclusive, new simfiles by those authors signed up almost every single week!

Thanks and best of luck! To join us please visit the link below (you'll need to copy/paste as ZIv url coding seems broken at the moment)

www.discord.gg/TripleCross