Dairyland Duel 2025 : beatmania IIDX
Ruleset revision #2

Date: September 6th, 2025
Location: Round 1 Southridge Mall
5200 S 76th St, Greendale, WI 53129

Head TO - @no_anime on Discord

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Tournament Format:

Initial entry capped to 16 players. If a waitlist is created, the player count may be increased to accommodate.

Waterfall Double Elimination:



Stages/placement will be based on seeds per Qualifiers below

Ruleset is subject to change - I want this event to be enjoyable for players at all skill levels!

Qualifiers:

- Can be submitted from August 4th to August 29th (when registration ends).

Level 8: fairy cocktail [A] (Tomggg - Heroic Verse)

Level 9: Psycho Sheep Riddim [A] - (Bemani Sound Team “SYUNN”, Rootage)

Level 10: HEARTACHE [A] - (BEMANI Sound Team "HuΣeR" feat.ゆきまめ, CastHour)

Level 10: Backyard Stars [A] - (TAKU INOUE, Heroic Verse)

- Qualifiers do not have to be played in the same set, and there is no limit on submissions (highest scores will be kept).

- E-amusement scorecards from the app, or a result screen picture that contains your DJ name are required.

- Qualifier sets can be played on any official E-AMUSEMENT cabinet, or IIDX INFINITAS.

- Sum of placements will be used (not total ex-score) using your placements on the four qualifier songs (total EX will be used only as a tiebreaker if two or more players end up with the same sum of placements)

• For instance:
  Player A places 2nd on song A, 5th on song B, 6th on song C, and 10th on Song D which gives them a sum of 23.
  Player B places 4th on song A, 4th on song B, 8th on song C, and 6th on Song D, which gives them a sum of 24.
  Player A would be the highest seed, followed by player B.

Format details:
Best of 3 - BPL battle head-to-head; 15 song card draw

- Any options that allow scores to save are allowed. No restarts will be granted for players failing out on HARD or EX-HARD gauge.

- In the event of a cab malfunction, please report the issue to a TO immediately - matches/songs will be replayed/restarted at TO discretion.
- Grand Finals will be a best of 3 card draws (3 matches)

The player is responsible for their own settings before the match starts. If a player has the wrong settings or fails and they intentionally hit the first note of the chart, the song is considered started and you are not allowed to ask for a restart.

Card Draw:

- Base Pinky Crush songlist - anything that a fresh e-amusement profile would have access to (no EPOLIS unlocks). Card draws after Round 1 will pull from ANOTHER difficulty charts only. (no LEGGENDARIAs)

Card Draw Ratio Per Stage:
Stage 1 + Stage 2 Losers R1/QF: Level 6 (40%), Level 7 (40%), Level 8 (20%)
        - Hypers included in this round only!

Stage 2 Winners: Level 8 (60%), Level 9 (40%)

Stage 3: Level 9 (20%), Level 10 (60%), Level 11 (20%)

Within Stage 4:

Winners Round 1,  Losers Round 1, Losers QF: Level 11 (60%), Level 12 (40%)
Winners SF, Losers SF: Level 11 (20%). Level 12 (80%)
Losers Finals, Winners SF/Finals: Level 12 (100%)

For standard double elimination (Best of 3 - BPL battle head-to-head; 15 song card draw):
- Higher Seed gets to choose either cab preference,or to go first or second in the below process:

Card Draws will be done following the rows as shown below:

Column Veto - Player vetoes an entire column of their choice.

Songs are played in order that they are chosen. The card leftover is considered the Tiebreaker and will always be played last no matter how it appears on the card draw!

The song order will be: Red’s Protect, Blue’s Protect, Tiebreaker

An entire set redraw may be decided if both players agree to doing a set redraw before the first phase begins. Only 1 set redraw may be done per match. Any charts repeated in the card draw will be individually redrawn.

Example Card Draw:

Player 1 opts to go first in the draw as the high seed, meaning player 2 has cabinet choice and picks the right cab, and goes second in the card draw process (red player)

Player 1 bans column #5 (TOMAHAWK, RAIN, Colorful Cookie).

Player 2 bans column #2 (EVANESCENT, StrayedCatz, Invitation from Mr. C), and protects sakura storm.

Player 1 protects One More Lovely, and vetoes Please Welcome Mr. C.

Player 2 vetoes Empire of Fury and Sounds of Summer.

Player 1 vetoes innocent revolver and #CMFLG.

Player 2 vetoes Rave Cannon.

The song order will be sakura storm (Player 2’s pick), One More Lovely (Player 1’s pick), and then BEAT PRISONER (the last unvetoed song)

- BPL Battle rules/scoring will apply; per song, the player with more EX will get the win for that chart. The player with more song wins at the end of the set will win the match. If a player wins 2 songs consecutively, the 3rd chart will be skipped in the interest of time.
In the event of a 1-1 match then ending on a tie on song 3, a tiebreaker card draw of 3 songs will be drawn, with each player vetoing one song, starting with the player who had a higher EX score total in the set.

Prizes