osu! News

June 2013 Ranking Chart

Makar — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:36:12 +0800

The June ranking chart is here, as well as newCAT! You can see the June ranking chart here, and the packlist here.

Note: The osu!mania chart is bugged due to a new system. Please wait for this to be fixed.

Congratulations to last months winners!

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Taiko

Catch the Beat

Congratulations to the newCAT!

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Taiko

BrokenArrow (welcome back!)
Cristian (welcome back!)
kazukisinx
Kokatsu
Kuro
Stefan

Catch the Beat

osu!mania

If you were not chosen, don't worry. I will add more from the previous applications as needed ~

May 2013 Highlights + Map of the Month

MillhioreF — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:50:25 +0800

Hello, everyone! This is the start of a new monthly thing where we explore some of the awesome things happening in the community this past month. So many great things happen all the time, but only a small fraction of the community ever sees it. Hopefully, with some more public visibility, amazing things can start to get the recognition they deserve. Let's get down to business!

• grumd has released a tool to copy hitsounds between map difficulties! This means that mappers can simply hitsound an Insane and copy its hitsounds down to all the lower difficulties. Granted, they may need some tweaking afterwards, but it can save massive amounts of time, especially on ranked mapsets. Take a look at its thread in General Development!

• Replays no longer miss when they should not have! A rather large bug that's existed since osu! was created has finally been fixed. All replays will no longer combobreak where they are not supposed to, and this applies even retroactively. Go check out Cookiezi's replay on The Big Black!

• osu! hit 10,000 users connected simultaneously! Thanks to Bancho optimizations done a while back, the server was barely strained at all, even with the massive influx of users. Who knows - at the rate we're expanding, we may even see 20,000 simultaneous users next year!

• Piotrekol has created a utility to export and import collections! As osu! currently has no way of sharing collections, besides copying your collection.db and overwriting the other person's collections, Piotrekol took matters into his own hands, reading the file format of collections.db and figuring out how to export and individual collections. Go check it out in the release thread!

• We have two new GMT members! After working hard as chat moderators for a long time, Blazevoir and TicClick have ascended to the Global Moderator Team. Congratulations, you two, and good luck helping out the community!

• Six marathon maps have been approved! We've been seeing quite an influx of approved marathon difficulties, and this month is no exception. Not only that, but of these six marathons, five of them were approved over the course of 2 weeks, setting a new approval record! If you have the time and stamina, go give them a play, as they're all quite high quality, and have a wide range of difficulty.

• osu!mania now has achievements! Three brand new Dedication achievements for osu!mania have been released, requiring 40,000, 400,000 and 4,000,000 keys pressed, respectively. If you've already pressed more than that and see the achievement still locked, no worries - just submit a ranked score on osu!mania, and your achievements will unlock automatically.

And last, but not least, Shiro has graciously offered to do a Map of the Month highlight! Rather than attempt to show the best map of the month, which is far too subjective and prone to discussion, the Map of the Month will attempt to show the most noteworthy map of the month, highlighting the map which was most innovative, progressive, or just simply a wonder to behold.

May's Map of the Month: Rita - Hajimari no Toki by Deif

Shiro wrote:

This is the first standalone CatchtheBeat mapset ranked! With this mapset, the game features a standalone mapset of every playable mode. Congratulations!

Great job, everyone! Let's make June an awesome month, too :)

osu! Beatmapping Contest #4

ztrot — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:12:30 +0800

There has been some requests on when the next osu! beatmapping contest will be, so without further ado, here is #4!
This one has a couple new things changed from the previous contest, including the song selection to fit a larger audience of mappers to participate, so the team looks forward to seeing spectacular results!

Submission Deadline: 2013, 22nd June, 24:00 GMT+0

Rules

All mapsets and their respective difficulties must fit all current ranking standards.
Anyone can participate!
All mapsets must contain 3 difficulties.
All difficulties must be mapped for osu! standard game mode.
You cannot submit backgrounds, storyboards, and custom hitsounds.
You are free to take part in all 3 song brackets, but the number of maps you submit to each bracket must not exceed over 1 beatmap set.
There are three songs to choose from. You can submit entries for more than one song, but you can only win one prize.
No collab maps or guest difficulties. One mapper per entry, please.
Make sure to get your maps in by the deadline! Any submission later than the deadline are invalid.
In the event of a tie, the judges will have the tie-breaking vote.
Do not post, submit, or otherwise publicly share your map before the contest ends, to maintain anonymity of the entries.
Please be aware that you shall not name your difficulties different than "Easy/Normal/Hard/Insane" to keep the judgement unbiased and anonymous.
Also be aware that this contest has three brackets tho it has three 1st places.
There won't be a winner among all songs . All songs can be considered as separated in judgement and therefore in prizing.

Songs

Song 1: Rooftop Run (Classic)
Download and enter here!
Artist: Tomoya Ohtani
Source: Sonic Generations
Length: 4:38, 152 BPM*
Theme: Videogame (Instrumental)

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Song 2: Pink Nightmares
Download and enter here!
Artist: Infected Mushroom
Source:
Length: 3:20, 144.99 BPM*
Theme: Electronic (English)

Youtube Preview (Contest mp3 is shortened)
Song 3: Fuss Fuzz
Download and enter here!
Artist: Kurosaki Maon
Source: Highschool of The Dead
Length: 2:00, 190 BPM*
Theme: Anime (Japanese)

Youtube Preview (Contest mp3 is shortened)

Judges

happy30
Nyquill
Garven
Shiro

Prizes (awarded per song)

1st Place "Elite Mapper" title + $75 Amazon Gift Card (Region Negotiable) + 1 Year of Supporter!
Runner up 3 Months Supporter!

If you have any questions regarding this contest, feel free to contact ztrot or Loctav.

2013 NewCAT Applications

Makar — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:04:07 +0800

The Chart Assembly Team (CAT) is currently looking for volunteers! The CAT is responsible for selecting maps for the monthly and themed charts. We are looking for dedicated and active members who have the confidence and judgement required in order to nominate, vote, and criticize maps for these charts.

Some basic information to know before applying:

No modding experience is required, but it is a plus. We are primarily looking for members with a good amount of playing experience; however, modding shows that you have the ability and experience on judging maps, which is a essential part of what the CAT is responsible for.
Actively play maps, especially new ones! Monthly chart picks are chosen from maps that were ranked in the most recent month. Themed chart picks are chosen from maps that fit a specific theme which is chosen by the CAT staff.
You do not have to have experience in all modes. Being active in just one mode is sufficient, but the more the better.
We are looking for osu!mania applicants as well. Maps for this mode will be included in the next chart.
Be friendly and open-minded to the people around you; it's an important part of being cooperative on a team like this.

If you are interested in applying, you can do so here. Afterwards, send me a forum PM with the subject line: "CAT Application Verification." The forum PM requirement is to prevent others' from applying for other users, so please don't forget to do so as it is mandatory.

Application deadline: June 1st, 2013 at 00:00 UTC
New members will be announced at the same time the June monthly chart is released (which is approximately June 14th)

As a side note, DeathxShinigami has stepped down from his position as manager, and I will be taking care of the team. If you have any questions about CAT, feel free to PM me on the forums or in-game. I look forward to seeing your applications!

Regional Team Management

Ephemeral — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:37:51 +0800

As of now, the BAT is now officially managed by three enterprising individuals, hailing from every end of the planet!

NatsumeRin represents Asia/Oceania,
Kurai represents Europe and,
Garven represents America.

Together, they manage the Beatmap Appreciation Team and will be responsible for overseeing all major changes to the Ranking Criteria, and also handling the recruitment of new modders and mappers into the BAT. Expect more announcements shortly as they begin accepting BAT applications!

May 2013 Ranking Chart

DeathxShinigami — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:03 +0800

Another month another chart~ Hope you all enjoy the May 2013 chart!

Chart

May 2013 Chart Packs
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Taiko
Catch the Beat

Also my apologies for not having anything else of note to really say but congrats to our winners of the April chart!

April 2013 Chart Winners
osu!standard: Rain
Taiko: Ca Calne
Catch the Beat: DeathXHunter

osu! Public Release (b20130509)

peppy — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:39:22 +0800

In order to push updates more regularly, it is important to me that the update system doesn't piss the user off. I've spend a bit of time reworking it to ensure this is the case. From the next version, you will notice the new update system in action, which will almost never force you to restart osu! unless you are willing to. Also in this build is a fix for all most previously broken replays, and the ability to spectate someone who is spectating someone else.

I've been spending a lot of my time recently on the new modding system, which is coming along quite nicely. Expect more client-side updates once that is finished!

The end of the MAT

Ephemeral — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:52:41 +0800

It has been a long road, and a hell of a journey. From the team's beginning as a measure to help address the slowing ranking cycle many years ago, the MAT have gone through a number of changes to become what they are today.

Or rather, what they were.

Effective immediately, all previous MAT have been promoted to members of the Beatmap Appreciation Team with full privileges and permissions, and the Mapping Assistance Team has been permanently dissolved, gone forever.

Members of the MAT who had a particular role (such as mania-only MAT or taiko-only MAT) will adopt that role amongst the BAT, and their forum titles will be updated in the coming days to reflect this.

No changes have been made to the ranking cycle. A map still needs a bubble before it can be ranked, and approval maps need at least two.

Let's all welcome the following 27 members to the team!

bossandy
Byakugan249
chonicle
DJPop
Elly-chan
Entozer
Frostmourne
Gabe
happy30
Jacob
Kei
Kenezz
Leorda
lovhin456
LunarSakuya
Makar
Melophobia
Nymph
Nyquill
popner
Roddie
Shulin
spboxer3
Strawberry
Teara
wcx19911123
xxheroxx

April 2013 Ranking Chart

DeathxShinigami — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:35:01 +0800

Hi everyone! DxS here as the new Chart Manager presenting the new April 2013 Chart.

Chart

April 2013 Beatmap Packs
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Taiko
Catch the Beat

And shout outs to our latest chart winners below~

Video Games Winners
osu!standard: AmaiHachimitsu
Taiko: kanopu
Catch the Beat: CLSW

March 2013 Ranking Chart Winners
osu!standard: Swatty
Taiko: Ca Calne
Catch the Beat: Dusk

Another note that there have been some difficulties in rewarding the latest chart winners their monthly supporter tags. Hopefully I can get that all sorted out in the next upcoming days.

osu! Public Release (b20130328)

peppy — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:23:51 +0800

Due to a largely negative response to the "unified ranking" change I made, I have since made further adjustments by separating the ranking types into a new dropdown. As of this release, country ranking is also available! Keep in mind that even though these features are only available to supporters, there is a chance they will still take a while to display due to the amount of processing necessary.

The ranking display also shows 8 instead of 7 scores without scrolling. I'm also experimenting with removing the load delay for supporters, which should make rankings feel a lot snappier at the song select screen (this may be reverted depending on load).

Lots of bug fixes too.