Nobody ever knew this. What happened to revealing the QAT rules to the public.Lust wrote:
We do not disqualify maps upon request. If this map so happens to be disqualified through our own anaylsis then feel free to fix it then.
We will revamp the Ranking Criteria and establish a Quality Criteria that comes from the QAT. This is to ensure that every Beatmap Appreciator is aware of what the QAT is looking at and what they pay attention to. It needs to be predictable what you should pay more attention to and what is more up to your own decision. Surely, you are supposed to keep your personal standards high! Therefore, we can only give out guidelines in different grey shades for you to put into your consideration before nominating any beatmap.
Anyways dq because it is unpassable by HR is irrational. But giving a dq upon request to tweak down the hp drain never seems a bad decision. Rather remaining this set to the ranked section without giving the mapper a chance to make the map passable with hr is violating your purpose.
QATs assure quality of a beatmap. If hr is one of the quality a mapper pursue, the team shouldn't hesitate a dq.