1) Expect full info posts to be made in mid May, with entries due sometime in June.
2) There will be separate divisions as usual, and there
will be a Keyboard division. However, I'm considering whether to merge DDR and ITG into a 'pad' division or not - I really want to encourage more experimentation with styles, something the DDR and ITG brackets system don't really encourage.
3) The name is currently tentatively going to be:
Original Simfile Contest NEO
DDR is explicitly removed as even four-panel simulation has gone far beyond DDR (regardless of what Konami thinks), there's a slim slim chance of the introduction of Pump It Up as a division. Why NEO, then? Because I consider the changes from OSC 5 to the new competition to be comparable to DDR 5th vs. DDR MAX. Why
NEO and not
MAX? So that there are absolutely no references to DDR trademarks in the name
The rules are going to have some similarities to BoNG, but also some further enhancements based on feedback received from that competition.