Beatmap Appreciation Team
The Beatmap Appreciation Team, formerly known as the Beatmap Approval Team and more commonly referred to as BAT, is a team in charge of ranking beatmaps foremost, and moderating the community.
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Structure
Before the staff restructuring on the 20th of March, 2013, the "Beatmap Appreciation Team" functioned primarily on a democratically inspired consensus for resolving issues and addressing changes to the ranking criteria. After the restructuring however, the team has been shifted into a subordinate role. Members of the Beatmap Appreciation Team formulate and debate ideas amongst themselves, with conclusions drawn from the conversations by a third party to the process.
Becoming a BAT
Becoming a member of the Beatmap Appreciation Team is often a difficult and drawn-out process. Potential members are first nominated by a member of the team, and are discussed as to their initial viability and potential for the role. If the majority of the active team agrees that a member has potential, they pass on to a second round of vote, where deliberations are considerably more intense and often involve heated debate between team members. A decision is then made by an external third party to the process whom takes the previous deliberations into consideration to make his/her choice as to whether a candidate is allowed to join the team.
Roles and Responsibilities
Members of the Beatmap Appreciation Team with a predominately red name on the forums (there is no designation between the two in game chat - all BAT are red ingame) are responsible primarily for managing the moderation of pending beatmaps into the ranking cycle. BAT are the people to go to for any modding or advice requests about anything mapping or gameplay related.
Team Members
Please note: All BAT speak English unless otherwise noted.
| Name | Specialization | Additional Languages Spoken | Taiko | CTB | osu!mania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -kevincela- | Flow, Rhythm usage, Hitsounds, Aesthetics | Italian | Taiko | ||
| abalee | Storyboard(coding) | Chinese(Putonghua & Cantonese), Few Japanese | |||
| Aleks719 | Flow, timing, hitsounds | Russian | |||
| Armin | Italian | ||||
| blissfulyoshi | Timing, Video Encoding | None | |||
| bossandy | Flow Rhythm Aesthetics | Chinese | Taiko | CTB | Learning |
| Byakugan249 | Flow and Consistencies | A bit of Filipino | Taiko | ||
| Charles445 | Flow, Symmetry, Timing, Insane maps | None | |||
| Chewin | Flow, Hitsounds, Aesthetics & Structure | Italian | |||
| chonicle | Chinese | osu!mania only | |||
| Colin Hou | Storyboard, Metadata, Encoding | Chinese, a little Japanese | Taiko | osu!mania | |
| DJPop | osu!mania | ||||
| Doomsday | Timing, hitsounds, high-level player | None | |||
| Elly-chan | Flow, Hitsounds, Aesthetics, Consistencies | French (studying/learning) | Taiko | ||
| Entozer | osu!mania only | ||||
| Faust | Flow, Aesthetics, Storyboarding & Timing | Very bad Chinese | |||
| Frostmourne | Thai | ||||
| Gabe | Flow, Hitsounds, Consistencies | French | |||
| Garven | Easy/Normal simplification, Flow | Some Japanese | Taiko | ||
| Gens | Storyboarding, skinning | Spanish (?) | |||
| Gonzvlo | General Beatmap & Pattern Design | Spanish | Taiko | CTB | |
| grumd | Russian | ||||
| happy30 | Rhythm, resources | Dutch | Taiko | ||
| Hitoshirenu Shourai | None | ||||
| Jacob | Flow, consistency, folder checking | Taiko | |||
| James2250 | None | ||||
| jericho2442 | |||||
| kanpakyin | Flow, Hitsounds, Aesthetics | Chinese (Both mandarin and cantonese) | Taiko | osu!mania | |
| Kawayi Rika | Flow,Symmetry | Korean,Chinese | |||
| Kei | Flow, rhythm, aesthetics | Spanish | |||
| Kenezz | |||||
| Kiddo-kun | Flow and Consistency | ||||
| Kurai | Flow, Readability, Aesthetics & Structure | French | Taiko | CTB | osu!mania |
| Leorda | Flow, Hitsounds, Storyboard, Skin | Indonesian | |||
| LKs | Innovation | Chinese | Taiko | CTB | osu!mania |
| Loctav | Aesthetics, Rhythm, Flow, Storyboard | German, Swedish, little Japanese and Korean | Taiko | osu!mania | |
| lolcubes | Flow, Hitsounds, Rhythm, Storyboard, Timing | Croatian and similar languages | Taiko | ||
| lovhin456 | |||||
| LunarSakuya | |||||
| Lybydose | Timing | ||||
| Mafiamaster | Storyboarding, skinning | Japanese (?) | |||
| Makar | Flow, Consistency, Aesthetics, Storyboard | A bit of Spanish | Taiko | ||
| mancusojuanmattos | Flow, Hitsounds, Rhythm | Spanish | Taiko | ||
| Melophobia | Hitsounds, Flow, Aesthetics | Japanese | |||
| minyeob | Korean | ||||
| MMzz | Flow, Timing, Structure, Hitsounds | None | Taiko | ||
| narakucrimson | Flow when using Symmetry, Structure | Spanish and some Italian | |||
| NatsumeRin | Mapping ideas. | Chinese | Taiko | ||
| Niva | Aesthetics, Timing, Instrumental songs specialist | Indonesian | Taiko | ||
| NoHitter | Aesthetics, Consistency, Flow | Filipino | |||
| Nymph | Chinese | ||||
| Nyquill | Flow, Hitsounds, Consistency, Rhythm | Chinese | Taiko | ||
| p3n | Flow, Aesthetics, Playability, SBs | German | |||
| Pokie | Hitsounds, Aesthetics | Chinese (Cantonese), Japanese | |||
| popner | |||||
| RandomJibberish | Symmetry, Structure, Aesthetics | None | |||
| Roddie | |||||
| Sakura | Sliderart, Symmetry, Flow, Aesthetics | Spanish, Portuguese | Taiko | ||
| SapphireGhost | General mapping questions, difficult maps | None | |||
| Scorpiour | Flow, Aesthetics, Storyboard & Skin | Chinese | |||
| Shiro | Hitsounding | French, Spanish, a bit of japanese and chinese | Taiko | CtB | |
| Shulin | |||||
| Sinistro | Greek, some French | ||||
| spboxer3 | Consistency, Aesthetics | Chinese | Taiko | CTB | |
| Starrodkirby86 | Storyboard | None | |||
| Strawberry | Flow, Aesthetics, Rhythm and Hitsounds | Chinese | Taiko | ||
| Sushi | |||||
| Suzully | Storyboard | Japanese | CTB | ||
| Sync | Beat Placement, Difficult maps | None | Taiko | ||
| Teara | |||||
| those | Chinese (Cantonese) | Taiko | CTB | osu!mania | |
| whymeman | |||||
| wmfchris | Chinese(Cantonese) | Taiko | CTB | ||
| wcx19911123 | |||||
| xxheroxx | Flow, Rhythm, Aesthetics | Italian | Taiko | ||
