osu!mania
_underjoy written by Maxus
_underjoy written by Maxus
- Showing his experience in handling high level 4K pattern in a clever and technical way, each of _Underjoy's chart have its own gimmick and distinct theme that makes it really fun to enjoy the mixture of variation that he brought each time to the ranked section. Most of his X icon chart features dense jumpstream with some of the long trill and stacks to add some technicalities and differences for the pattern. However in his latest ranked map, he proves that he can change his style really differently by bringing purely jack concept map which is really different from his previous map. The flexibility of the content he brought to the community surely deserves compliment and bigger recognition from the others.
- Entering the mapping scene in early 2016, - Aries - has improved and refined the simple and clean cut style of many newer mappers to create something that may not be what high level players find challenging, but is meant for casual and quick play. Even so, he's still expanding his style to include some trickier LNs for the lower skilled player.
- After started mapping in 2016, - Ly0572 - has finally started to widen his mapping experience by trying tackling into the anti-meta 5K beatmap and having unconventional electronic genre song as his choices. with the usage of LN stream combined with clean chordstream pattern really bring his map to the A game.
- One of the first mappers to rank a map in 2017, -[Apple]- finally broke through the ranked scene in early January with his map, We're So Happy (P*Light Remix) after a tumultuous two months in pending and help/wip after the first time it was qualified in September of 2016. As many novice mappers tend to do, his style is a simple mix of streams with some overlapped LNs for longer held sounds. Conventional but clean!
- An old mapper that's notable for having really clean and rigid structured style mapping, -Soragami- already proves his experience in how he handle each section and each part of the song effectively. as shown in his MariannE map where he mixing unorthodox wall LN pattern and stream effectively, reflecting the song that build up slow but more intense leaning towards the end.
- Veteran mapper [ A v a l o n ] wasn't as active this year as he was in the last but when he does occasionally release a map, he's sure to impress with a clean and easy to follow style that has influenced many aspiring mappers. The effort he puts in his maps doesn't go unnoticed, which has rightfully earned him and his maps much positive attention.
- Despite not being stand out in the community, however his Hitorigoto map has some promising feature with complex but conventional LN mapping that following the vocal and gradually becoming trickier for each part.
- As one of the older mapper and BN from the early era, Shana makes a rather diverse attempt and approach with her song choices and mapping, started from mapping conventional anime map into a more controversial other rythm game song. and despite that, she already makes a rather succesful map that reach multiple dimension of mapping era.
- Known for his unranked technical maps and quiet presence in the mapping scene, Abraxos entered the ranked section for the first time this year, bringing along his unique use of short long notes and streams. It's an interesting new perspective of mapping and it won't be the last from him.
- A rather well known Qrispy Joybox Mapper that also start relatively new, AchsanLovers brings a rather simple and yet profound chart that utilize conventional LN and double LN following both vocal and background song, and it got executed rather well and player friendly.
- The 'Pump It Up' mapper once again makes his appearances in the ranked section after being hiatus for 2 years. Enacted his pattern style to be more anchory and unorthodox shield pattern with out of the box burst pattern for higher difficulty song, AJIekceu definitely brings something much more fresh in pretty much overall aspect into the mania ranking community.
- Sporting an impressive 86 submitted maps to date, ALEFY is a mapper well known for his SV and LN heavy maps. He continues to impress with a keysounded LN centered chart, a welcome addition to the ranked mappool of mania.
- Going above and beyond when it comes to making charts accessible to players of all levels and keymodes, AlisceaSparku added an impressive 16 difficulty mapset including keymodes from 4k - 7k with difficulties ranging from Easy to Insane to the ranked section this year, with many more in the works. Here's to more multi keymode maps!
- Having his first ranked map at the early 2017, Alsty- makes a quite distinct impression by mapping Indonesia vocaloid remix song that he combined with unusual SV progression both in calm and agressive part, and yet friendly enough to grants him a lot of positive reception and huge favourite support from the players. His first map already grants him spot in the top 10 of the Community Choice Awards 2017.
- Though with only 2 maps ranked last year, Amiichii still showed his experienced skills in mapping both 4K and 7K. His maps are especially neat, and styles inside are very clear. However, unlike other normal anime maps, with key features like SVs in 4K and LNs in 7K, his maps are also fun to play.
- Despite being new in the mapping field, he already showcase his knowledge by mapping diverse keymode started from 4K to 7K with his Zen Zen Zense map. the passion to keep learning even the anti meta keymodes makes him grow to be one of the more potential mapper in the future.
- Being another SDVX mapper in the community, Aras proves that he is not afraid to going aggressive but also fun with his pattern approach that utilize irregular and yet effective staircases and mini LN placement. the SV bump and slowjam that's been used in high leverage and yet proves to going with a great efficacy.
- Archerlove's prominently LN based style of mapping is a prime example of never trusting SR, and he makes players work for their score. Utilizing a lot of long note overlaps and inverse patterning, it's sure to challenge how good a player thinks they might be. This patterning is not just exclusive to his 7K maps, but also includes his 4K maps, and it's always inpsiring new mappers to step out of accepted standards of mania mapping.
- An ex-BAT member that's well known for his service contribution as well as joining mania world cup multiple times since 2014, arcwinolivirus brings some of the chart that's really outstanding and got massive popularity to the point it got played countless times in its era. although he did has hiatus moment for quite long period, he always go back and rank full spread 4K and 7K difficulties, which seemed to be his preference for most of his map. Definitely his presence in the community is something that's really respectable for many players and mappers.
- Not to be confused with Lazyboy007, Asherz007 first appeared in the ranked section this year in July with a simple keysounded map, kicking off his quick rise to prominency in the community when he became a BN only two months later in September. Now a well involved and integrated community member, he's shaping and moving the future generation of mappers into new and exciting fronts for the better.
- Well known for his 30 seconds and unusual america cartoon song choices, Ayachi Meme brings conventional and yet consistently friendly pattern for players that playing the game in much more casual way.
- Ayachi- ranked a lot of anime songs and music game songs in the past years, especially in 2015 and 2016. His maps feature really balanced and smooth patterns which are quite easy for beginners to enjoy. The map he ranked this year is also for a famous anime song, of which 4+7K spreads give beginners for both keymodes a sweet time.
- Not one to leave out the newer players, Benzopirene's impressive 12 difficulty set includes plenty of weak SVs to introduce easy level players into harder reading challenges. This accessibility makes it a worthy introduction to players of any kind who are unfamiliar SV changes. Additionally, his unranked maps cater more towards higher level players with a focus in trickier patterning that, at first glance, some would see as messy, but in reality is an organized chaos.
- biemote has always been an experienced 6K mapper from an early time of the osu!mania community. His 6K mapping style is well represented in this map. Concepts are strictly built on the music but are also extended and creatively applied into various kinds of patterns, where jacks and 1/8 stairs are mixed to express the culmination of this map. The community would like to see more 6K maps with such creativity.
- osu!mania's mascot, the ET Blocko has had a year full of dedicated QAT work, but he also spared time for selecting maps for both of this year's Mania World Cups. His mapping efforts came to fruition right at the end of the year, with his long awaited Just Hold On mapset reaching ranked status exactly at Christmas Eve.
- Appearing late in the year, Calcyon is a patient mapper who makes clean and simple maps more for enjoyment rather than challenge. The visuals he presents are stunningly simple and easy on the eyes, making his maps something more for the casual player to enjoy, an increasingly rare intent in today's ever evolving competitive ranked pool.
- Carol, also a newcomer in osu!mania mapping, started his learning process with a relatively short map. Though it took indeed a bit long to rank his first map, he still learned a lot and showcased a very clean map as his first attempt. It is great to see him finally achieve his goal, and we expect him to substantiate the ranked section with more of his creations.
- Before 2017, Critical_Star was known as a famous 4K mapper, whose 4K mapping style also improved to a large extent in 2017. His first 7K map, Sennen no Kotowari, surprised many, where his insights in 7K pattern-making and music representation are well expressed in that map. 2 more creations are made at the end of last year. Though becoming gradually inactive from mapping and BN work, he has impacted many players and mappers with his maps and efforts to help others.
- Known as Dragon Ball mapper, CrumpetFiddler have passion and drive to keep asking many other experienced mapper towards how to improve as mapper, and keep learning towards his remapping till finally ranked his first map at the later of 2017. Definitely can expect more great contents from him in the future!
- The mixture of variation Curiossity brings into his map is quite splendid. Starting with having fast roll stream and then mixed with high BPM triple and even quad jack, not to mention the LN usage and SV bump that fits the atmosphere of the song. Definitely quite a remarkable effort.
- As one of the BN in the early mania era, DE-CADE has excavating his knowledge and notoriously honing his skill to keep sharp at approaching multiple dimension of mapping perspective. His first ranked map has already proven to be one of the most played beatmap in the osu!mania history with over a thousand favourite and million of play, which only few other mania beatmap that accomplish the same feat.
- Dellvangel's fast paced and upbeat maps have always been able to get players excited. He took his leave from the BNG in the summer to focus on IRL responsibilities, and while it's sad to see him go, his dedication and effort towards helping mappers push their maps closer to rank has made an impact on many aspiring mappers.
- dkingo produces maps with very clear concepts. His efforts are finally rewarded when Perfect Lie became his first ranked map at the end of 2017.
- As one of the top players, DoNotMess has also been experienced in mapping. He learned and improved a lot in the last year, and Sheriruth, his 2nd ranked map which features well-made LN patterns, has been especially popular, which is a reason for his name appearing on the list of most played record sets.
- Notable for both 4K and 6K maps, Draftnell leans towards more comfortable and accuracy oriented pattern that's casual player friendly. One of his more unusual genre electronic song beatmap puts him into the top 10 of Community Choice Award as of 2016.
- dudehacker is always known as one of the best hitsounders in osu!mania. Besides self-made hitsounds for lots of maps, he also developed many useful hitsound tools that helped countless mappers with hitsound problems. In mapping, he aims to help beginners familliarize with 7K with his maps. Featuring smooth patterns all the way through the song, his 7K ranked maps become one of the first choices for 7K beginners.
- EFP as a skilled mania player was venturing into mapping world but unfortunately needs really long time to actually got his first map ranked. He originally already got BN multiple times in the past but unfortunately all of them suddenly retired before can giving the map a proper nomination. The map itself gained a huge amount of mod that makes the mapper keep improving with each time he waiting, until finally after 2 years the map get its proper place in ranked section.
- A quite phenomenal mapper that she already have one of her map in the top 10 of the Community Choice Awards of 2016. Although her forte mostly in lower difficulty mapping, however she understand how to incorporate her concept and make an accurate choices in how she wants to implement her idea. Not only that, but she also understand how to choose the song along with correct people to help her map, thus earn her the popularity.
- As one of the active modder and just recently got his BN position as prove of his modding skill, error_exe777 showcases a smart usage of multiple LN layering along with completely using custom bass hitsound as the base in the majority of the difficulty. Overall an intriguing concept that can be expected more in the future.
- One of the most influential and knowledgeable mapper in the entire community. With so many maps he publish and even manage to be the map choices in the Mania World Cup multiple times, Evening proves that unranked section is also a fun section to express mapper's content. publishing so many diverse high level chart and elevated it in the realm that people never ever imagine before, his style forte revolves around aggressive SV that's memorable and have predictable appearances along with each of the SV transition flows smoothly, while many of his unranked beatmap revolves to be more unpredictable and fierce by even playing with red line to playing even more with SV. And yet, still enjoyable by the community to let his maps gain so much support to reach the loved section. The amount of loved beatmaps that he got so far is the most that a single mapper has ever gotten in the mania history.
- Starting mapping in late 2016, ExNeko quickly grasped the basics and developed his clean style with two easy but delicate mapsets ranked in the last year. He also gives his try in 7K mapping recently, and it will be a pleasure to see more of his creations ranked for more players to enjoy in the future.
- One of the BN that pass the very first BN test, Feerum makes himself a very notable figure in mania community by providing his service to get promoted becoming QAT at July 2016. He showcases his forte in understanding low difficulty pattern and difficulty spread that's gradually comfortable for beginner player to start their improvement in Mania, also that his mastery in an effective usage of hitsound sample really brought his map to be a perfect example on what beginner friendly should like. Not to mention his mania mapping guide that also even also helps new mapper in develops their mapping technique.
- Already been a representative in the mania world cup couple times already, Felipe himself already charting maps that mostly from stepmania mapping, and decided to start for real for ranking. Although his chart has the issue for having similar nature with one of the older map, however he keeps looking for every hole and opportunity to give better and variated representation of the song, and thus earn him spot back into the ranking section.
- Fresh Chicken is one of the most famous SOUND VOLTEX mappers. After his Blastix Riotz was awarded the best of 2016, he brought to us a few well-made SOUND VOLTEX IV maps this year too. He makes good use of basic patterns and mixes many of his good ideas into his map, which are not only challenging but also expressive of music.
- Frim4503 is distinctively well known in the entire mania community by only ranking anti-meta 5K marathon so far. He proves that even anti-meta mapping also a fun pattern to play for casual player by providing comfortable and yet interesting layering by combining different variation for each of the section in marathon length map along with SV that utilize vocal syllable properly. 4 of his map already got into the beatmap spotlight which makes him one of the mapper with the most spotlight in mania community.
- As the mapper with high proficiency of 7K expertise in the community, Garalulu never cease to amaze players and fellow mappers with his ability to conceptualize and bring such a highly technical pattern that keeps developing in each of the style revolving around 02Jam and BMS inspired chart. and not only he charting 7K map, but he also demonstrate that his 4K charting skill is also a top notch with bringing very heavy SV chart along with really dense and technical wall LN and tricky releases to accompanying the chart, really established himself as a versatile and multifaceted charter.
- A hybrid mapper that doing well both in mania and taiko, he also was active in modding field by keep offering his help in both modes he proficient at. In mania he focus on difficult complex LN that increasing in difficulty as the song progress, that player needs good finger independence and high focus in reading to nail properly.
- Being a very old StepMania player, Halogen- is really famous for his accuracy high level player and also rock many leaderboards across osu mania ranked beatmap. Halogen- starting his mania mapping by having collaboration between anti meta 6K map with taiko mode. The amount diversity and unorthodox approach on this map is remarkable. Started from having tricky long note releases along with trill that's relatively short but consistently exist across the map, challenge the player to having technical control over their play and surely not the one to be able to breeze through easily. also with the addition of keysound really bring the track much livelier like watching theater show. Surely with his very long experience in VSRG community, the possibility of concept he brings to the community would be endless.
- Well known for his 9K maps, hannanos kicked off the new year of 2017 with a somewhat belated Christmas map. His unique symmetrical style looks easy but is more challenging than most maps in that difficulty range due to the lack of rests between hands and required coordination.
- More active in the first half of the year, Hydria contributed to the ranked mappool with two, unconventional, short mapsets that are unorthodox in a fun way. He's been also experimenting with mapping a lot - submitting an astonishing amount of over 75 mapsets in 2017 alone!
- Having many of his map oriented towards HoneyWorks song, Ibrahim breaks a leg with some of the conventional and yet well structured beatmap that really showcases his experience in handling the song in a well designed pattern.
- Well known mapper with mapping O2i3 song, he really knows how to captivate and develop chart concept with interesting song choices and comfortable touch of long note patterning that bring his map really likeable by the community looking at the amount of favourite and positive reception and feedback that players provide into the chart.
- With having some of his project going into loved status because of community support, Janko also prove that his capability into handling his map in the ranked section as well. With mostly focusing on SV bump and conventional jack pattern, he understand how to do build-up pattern to support the song that's calm but also complex at the same time.
- A well known QAT that specializes in CTB mode, he took all the gamemodes that he never learn before, and try condensed them into one set for him to rank. The journey to make that happens of course isn't easy by any means especially when the entire gamemode set that he made by himself and also have to get approval from all gamemode BN. But nonetheless, he manages to get it done in 2 years of his effort into the map. Having mania difficulty full of grace notes and also evolve his concept into much more trill along with uncommon LN chord and releases really showcases all the experience and advises he took from his learning time.
- Known more for his antics in #osumania, Jesuren ranked his first map this year, a 42 second saradisk song representative of his erratic but cheerful nature. While it doesn't stand out as innovative, it's a nice play for those lazy days with simple 1/4 triplets and 1/6 bursts that come as slightly challenging for some but not long enough to become frustrating.
- The legendary destroyer of osu!mania pp system has struck once again in 2017. Despite not being active for the majority of the year, he managed to get a new, record breaking mapset ranked. Doppelganger. The first ranked osu!mania map that not only crossed way above the 8* margin, barely touched by his MANIERA beatmap, but going as far as crossing the 9* mark becoming the third map in osu!'s history to do that (not counting TAG4 maps). Additionally one of his most famous maps - the 7K MWC Finals Tiebreaker - Blue Zenith - finally reached the loved status near the end of the year. With this in mind, who knows how big impact Jinjin will have on osu!mania's charting in 2018?
- Well known for his LN style of mapping, juankristal finally made it through to the ranked section of maps last year with his uniquely noodle inspired map, FIRST. Sporting an impressive ratio of nearly 2 long notes for each short note, his map is accessible to players of all levels, further encouraging the rise of LN mapping for ranked. His contributions are much appreciated!
- Julie, renowned for her beginner friendly style of mapping, in 2017 spent most of the year on Beatmap Nominator work. Although not as active as in previous years, she had two GDs featured on Mat's In The Garden mapset, and rounded off the year in holiday spirits with Jingle Bells. Julie's mapsets always please people who are learning osu!mania and I'm really hopeful we'll see more of her work in 2018!
- 7K anime map generally becoming more uncommonly in the ranking section, but JztCallMeRon took his own authentic approach and decided to have 7K as his primary choices in mapping. Starting the map with very long 1/2 jack along with 1/1 chord, player really need to have decent independence and finger coordination to hit them properly. The kiai structure itself evolving into something from conventional 1/2 chord pattern into a more tricky 1/2 LN stream along with 1/1 chord LN in the middle and the closing part of kiai. Overall the chart that he brings really establish his structure fluently.
- Having been around the mapping scene since 2015, with a ranked GD in 2016, Kaito-kun presents a simply designed spread with jumpstreams, handstreams, and more for players of any level looking for a rush filled 4 minutes of 200 BPM streams. Known for having some stellar meme-type mods, his positivity has made modding and mapping a truly community fueled activity that encourages and inspires others to do the same.
- Already well known and established mapper and Beatmap Nominator, Kamikaze finally brought the TOKIO FUNKA saga to an end after four long years when it was ranked in March of last year. No novice to new and cutting edge styles including heavy usage of trills, overlapping LNs, and symmetrical visuals, his unique perspective on mapping has inspired many others to follow suit and push the limits of what's acceptable, and expand the wide horizons of charting.
- Being the oldest current mania BN in the community, Kawawa is one of the most knowledgeable mapper and modder in 7K field of mapping by bringing so many high level 7K set into the ranking field. Starting from developing the very complex patterning and keeping the density while having really great playability that flows really well for high ranking player, but also have additional of the certain technical aspect that doesn't lessening the impact of the overall map that entwined with the music agressiveness. We can say that his contributions in the community are really impactful by providing many high quality charts that keeping the experienced players intact in the game.
- Notorious for being very skilled player and an osu!mania champion 2017, Kim_GodSSI also charting so many unranked beatmaps for quite long time already with an impressive 73 beatmaps but just newly ranked beatmap in the end of 2017. His style charting being made apparent that it's from 02Jam because of the amount of dense LN he poured into most of his map, included the ranked one. the rarity of noodles 7K chart really brings his creation to be something that many high level player waiting for.
- Despite not being an obtrusive community member, however his ranked beatmap actually has been played quite a lot in the multiplayer which makes his map quite likeable by community. Considering his style oriented towards jumpstream and also handstream oriented map that's a meta pattern in the community, not to mention his song choices from vocaloid also has a quite huge margin of popularity.
- As a senior member of ex-BN that already serving for roughly 2,5 years , there's nothing but a full gratitude for the service he brought for the community. Kuo Kyoka with the immense experience and knowledge that he gains for over multiple years really brings him to be one of the notorious mapper from its era and even then until now. His pattern style brings a well organized and immaculate structured pattern that's really neat both in aesthetic and gameplay wise. For lower difficulty he tends to focus the drum beat and loud percussion in column 1 and 4, signify the instrument to be more accentuated.
- Starting from mapping only lower difficulty, he ask many veteran GD'ers to assist and teach him the concept of mapping and modding that effectively brings him slowly to do much difficult chart. and the knowledge he gains expand into even other keymodes that he kept improved to attain even further height, definitely someone that should be kept an eye on.
- A mapper with having an unusually odd choices and taste, starting from the song, and also his own chart with rigid technical dense jack pattern along with complex and less predictable SV along with couple LN certainly really bring his personality and versatility directly into the community.
- Not concerned with difficulty, PP, or even map attention, Lefrave made a mark with his map, Lost my pieces. Rather than taking the player on an excited adventure of unique and fun filled gimmicks, they present an emotional and sentimental experience, bringing players back to times encompassing silly but life defining romantic moments. Their minimalist use of hitsounds helps to bring out the atmosphere and absorb the player into a short 2 minute emotional journey of rediscovery.
- The old-timer in osu!mania's community, Lenfried- is known as a connoisseur of old style 7K charts and his mapping style bears a lot of characteristics known from those times. His style is unorthodox, mostly with LN usage which stands out from others and makes his maps that much more interesting and that's very a very valuable trait in osu!mania.
- Being another relatively new mapper in osu!mania, Litharrale quickly grasped mapping basics and ranked his first map for the famous song in osu!, Koi no Hime Hime Pettanko by *namirin. Besides, he successfully made his way to a BN shortly after his first ranked map, and contributed much efforts into helping with ranking process. It is a pity that he left BNG recently, but his contributions to the community will be remembered by us.
- As a strong player and proficient 4K and 5K mapper, Lude did a very good job in unveiling every detail of a piece of music in his maps. It is not only about the patterns, but also about the delicate SVs in his maps that made one of his maps the #3 of MMC.
- With straightforward LNs and basic rhythms, Mage offers maps geared towards those aiming to challenge themselves without stepping too far out of their comfort zone. Short and to the point, his style is easy to follow while still bringing pleasant surprises to the player with a beginner's introduction to more advanced multi-timing LN releases.
- Starting quietly, but gain such huge attention when hits the ranked section. Memoria is possibly one of the more controversial map to date because of the very new experience having pure long stamina jack map that mania never has before. Despite the amount of layering and pattern fixing needed to blend with the song properly, in the end Manwon manage to having the map to be ranked.
- Within his first ranked map however already show his experience and blow the community away with one of the most famous marathon map in mania. Although he choose a more conventional and smooth comfortable pattern in lower diff mapping, however his higher diff mapping certainly a remarkable one to gain so much attention from the community
- Taking complex types of mapping and condensing them into a simplified form for less experienced players to attempt, Maxus contributed many of his signature accessible maps to the ranked scene this year, giving players a small taste of long notes, slider velocity changes, and jacks that aren't so easy as to be boring but aren't so hard as to be inaccessible to the majority of the player base. In addition, his hard work as a BN throughout the year was noticed by many, at times bringing more maps into the qualified section of mania than the entire mania BNG combined. While he isn't as active as he used to be, he's still around as a friendly face in the community, offering help at every turn.
- With having long experience of charting in stepmania back in the old times, MEGAtive charted all of his map as something that we usually call by ""anti-meta"", that's because he sought to always bring something more unorthodox into the ranking section either from less-well known rythm game song, unconventional charting technique and last but not least, not afraid to try something controversial to explore even more possibility into his mapping knowledge and style.
- Even with the hard times to rank his first map, Muu-chan keep trying to constantly look for mod and not giving up till he finally reach his goal and rank some more other map. His chart mostly consist of accuracy chord pattern that really focus on percussion to be stand out.
- Entering the mapping scene late in the year, newbandpro emphasizes playability and does well in synthesizing multiple parts into one single moving line in his easy and normal difficulties, forcing players to pick out the nuances in a song and hear how they relate with other parts. These difficulties are opportunities for newer players to practice the idea that there's more than just following the song.
- A mapper with reputation being the 7K keysound mapper across his beatmap, Niks really brought hitsound into something that community even more love to have, given the scarcity of keysound beatmap that has such an appeal to be played. Although his focus is more on the 7K casual pattern, however he also confirmed to have 4K charting capabilities as well, which we can expect more great result from him in the future.
- Not only being one of the famous accuracy player in the old era, he also actually a notable mapper with consistently blowing the ranking section each time he entered the ranking section and constantly change his pattern style and various keymode. Starting from tricky LN holds, high speed burst oriented song, anti-meta X icon mapping, and also even including some of controversial high level mapping. His presence in the community certainly also a big contribution into bringing mania mapping into fruition
- Charting mostly anime song, however Noxus understand how to incorporate the instrument with his own style into something uncommonly seen. With his pattern mostly consist of unusual LN chord and releases combined with 1/4 LN to emphasize the subtle short sound, definitely one of the fast learning mapper that creates interesting concept to have.
- Being relatively new in the mapping ranking field last year, and yet he already provide really unconvential high level chart that's really an astonishing accomplishment to have. the map has the light jack theme based as the fundamental concept of the chart and later got mixed with a touch of Chord LN, some of the 1/8 Jumpstream and explosive SV stutter. With the amount of diversity he put into his first map, we can expect much more greater content in his upcoming map!
- Unorthodox doesn't begin to scratch the surface in describing Parachor's odd and chaotic charts. He constantly pushes the limits of what's rankable, innovating new ideas and techniques that are rarely found in the ranked section. Signature use of short LNs, release graces, and subtle but tricky SVs define this prominent and popular style among higher level players. His maps break every unspoken rule of mania with excellent execution.
- Having spent two years attempting to rank his first map, PnX has come a long way in mapping. Simple long notes and short note combinations fill his charts, and he has a way of picking out subtle lines in the music and bringing them out fully in his maps while combining them with multiple other parts to create a mosaic of different moving lines that are still unique in their own right.
- Having herself dedicated in Osu!mania modding community, Protastic101 is possibly one of the most influential and hard working consistent modders in the community. Started her modding career from 2016 until now becoming QAT, her mapping style took a really diverse approach started from very complex LN wall and also utilize stutter and strong SV bump flawlessly and rather efficacious way. She also makes herself notable with being a master of hitsound and keysound, providing an enlightenment to the community on how to choose and doing hitsound/keysound effectively. her mastery in the field already be proven by having one of her set was picked by the community as the most favourite, allowing her to be the Community Choice Award of 2017.
- Well known for his Mania guest difficulties in a lot of standard sets, puxtu's prominent LN-less percussion only style is often the first a new mapper encounters due to the large volume of players who play his maps. It's no surprise then that many take after this simple and clean style, so in a way, he indirectly influenced the shaping of Mania mapping by providing players a general idea with which to create their own unique styles.
- With such an intricate and well-flow 7K bracketstream chart, he maps all of his chart from BMS source which also a fundamental of his mapping style. The element of pattern that he adds for the variative and complexity purpose of the chart is a lot, starting from dense chordhand, staircases, either mini and long bracket, and finally some of unorthodox short burst combined with couple of grace notes. The component that he brought into mapping certainly an insight for other mapper to looked at.
- Although not showed up often in the community, however qodtjr put up a decent creation with ranking stamina dense jumsptream pattern that have its own contrast compared with other similar map, which is putting some of runningmen and long trill as the characteristic and identity that shows how the mapper embed his own concept.
- A well known contributor in the scorewatch production, Raveille has decided to started mapping not only for ranked but to gather many mappers across the entire mania community and makes one huge collaboration in loved status that has never been seen in mania history before. the amount of passion and drive he puts toward many aspect of his project is quite exceptional and noteworthy.
- One of the more conventional 7K charters, Reba took his approach into mapping comfortable linear chordstream chart with some additional LN stream on top of that. As he charted more song, he added more technicalities by adding much more bracket in the middle of the pattern, which makes his chart bring certain challenging aspect that worth many tries to nail.
- As the fans of Re:Zero anime series, Remuring expresses his passion for the song series through his chart that mostly oriented with short jack at some places, but mostly it's arranged in the way that it could be played conventionally by casual player without going over technical.
- Whether it's ranked or unranked, Reyzra won't be separated from Love Live content which becomes his primary song choices in his mapping. His rough start in the beginning of his mapping career cause of the full spread of the full version song cost him 3 years worth of time to rank his first map. And despite that, his passion doesn't seem to fade away and that makes him to be able to reach the goal he wanted, makes him one of the most dedicated one.
- As the senior mapper of the early mania community, richardfeder already become such an inspiration and the respected member of the community for a long time. Many of his song choices revolves around Visual Novel or game soundtrack, and his mapping forte revolves around 7K mapping with highly technical bracket stream along with unusual trill burst that requires really high pattern coordination and thorough execution. Especially for his 7K+1 BMS chart, he uses lot of classic crossovers along with long trill pattern combine with couple minijack to express the rapid 1/4 sound. Overall a really inventive mapper that becoming one of the pillar that makes osu!mania today.
- riunosk is a mapper that mainly focuses on creating maps for practice purpose, featuring different patterns of difficulty in his maps. Being also as a very strong player in osu!mania, he has wonderful insights into mapping, with his ranked map in 2017 featuring well-arranged LNs that made it overwhelmingly diffcult. Though it took long for him to actually rank a map, he still didn't give up and bring us with his excellent creations.
- An active and helpful BN, Rivals_7 has contributed a fair number of maps to ranked this year, whether it be through maps that he's ranked himself, or maps he's helped push forward. His charts make heavy use of slider velocities in a subtle way to avoid inhibiting the player's reading. His hitsounding is something to take note of though, as he goes above and beyond with keysounding even the tiniest wobbles in sound. He's made a positive impact this year with his contributions and shows no signs of slowing down.
- A hybrid BN that already contributing in multiple modes at once. Sinnoh took a really smart approach in his pattern concept from trying mapping irregular consistent 1/3 chart to having a SV-theme map with complex LN that's really challenging and complicated but completely fun and enjoyable to give the player a real sense of achievement for nailing each part properly. Really fast learning and clever mapper that will do much more great content in the future.
- As a very old mapper that already contributes into the mania ranking charts since 2013, Skalim is a notable high level player that charting some of the various keymodes chart that's outstandingly eminent in its era. His mapping structure probably one of the very few charter that has an absolute rigid and clean concept but at the same time retain its technicality to the outmost. The classic approach that he brings certainly bring him to be one of the respectable charters.
- Winner of the Monthly Beatmapping Contest of April 2017 earning him the title of ""Elite Mapper,"" Soul Evans manages to spin an interesting and unique map out of a generic song containing plenty of LNs and oddly snapped bursts. While sad to say he couldn't add much else, it has helped shape his mapping style to be more eccentric and is certainly a welcome change to the ranked section.
- SpectorDG was an old mapper that has been active in 2015. With his Zettai Reido being ranked, he returned to the community in 2017. His maps make good use of basic patterns and fit with the music in a good sense with very clear concepts, which make them some of the most popular SOUND VOLTEX maps in osu!mania.
- As one of the legendary old mappers, Spy brought us his delicate creations for a group of new and popular IIDX songs. His mapping style has always been especially clear and smooth, which has guided many other mappers after his era. It will be pleasing to see more of his creations brought to osu!mania community and inspire more new mappers.
- Known as Taiko BN and also one of the forum active contributor, He started his mania mapping with the song choices that supports him to do many variative 1/6 and 1/8 guitar pattern that adds to his mapping style along with mini stream LN pattern. He has well known big contribution in taiko, and will do in mania field as well.
- While there's nothing that particularly stands out about this mapper, Syadow-'s style is conventional and clean with a strict adherence to the song, so what's heard is what the player gets. This makes it easy to follow and is a reason why he's a great GDer for lower difficulties as can be seen in the large number of guest difficulties he's created this year that have been ranked.
- Tidek's maps are a brand of their own when it comes to osu!mania's 4K charting scene. Known for his love of complex maps, SV and high HP & OD values, he struck gold once again this year with his Leaf - I map. He's a mapper willing to take risks; he's capable of making maps that are extreme, but don't force difficulty nor come across as overboard. Branching out into more and more challenging songs to map, we might see even greater maps from him in the future!
- Being relatively new BN in mania, but he already makes a huge impact by keep releasing content and active in modding and icon field. having the musical background really helps him not only in providing substantial high quality map, but also in the piano keysound that he applied in some of his map as well. He also doing some of hybrid map along with mania which hopefully will bring more collaboration with other mode along with mania being more apparent in the future.
- Tornspirit spent most of the year in the mapping community trying to help out 5K players both as a mapper and modder, resulting in his first map ranked - PARANOiA Revolution, which took him almost exactly 2 years to rank.
- Entering his mania ranking for the first time by doing hybrid set, Vampir sets a big appearances when ranking Demend ~After Legend~ Which not only support his intrinsic mapping style, but also ask the right GD to support his song choices and capabilities to its fullest, which gain him recognizition from many players and mappers.
- Most people know of Verniy_Chan as that one LiSA mapper, and for her incredibly popular 2016 map, Electric ""Sister"" Bitch, which has already set the bar high. In meeting expectations, 2017 was a year full of her classic song compilation storyboards with simple strobes and smooth transitions, while the charts contained many easy to play bursts and streams, but still managed to keep it interesting with LN transitions and slider velocity changes.
- Virtue- is one of the most active mappers and modders in osu!mania community in the last year. Known as ""Halozy Mapper"", he is famous for his marathons of many Halozy songs.Though he failed last two rounds of BN application, with his gradually improving strength and knowledge in osu!mania mapping, he will succeed in the future.
- Possibly the underdog mapper of last year, Wadu took the ranked scene by surprise with his map Grimm (Kobaryo's FTN-Remix). Utilizing strong SV stutters, jacks, shields, and more, it's a change in pace from the average ranked mania map. Not stopping there, he has continued to make extravagantly difficult maps while still maintaining a level of appropriateness for the song. Despite having appeared relatively recently, he already has a presence in the community.
- Despite having standard as his main mode and relatively new in mania mode, he manages to becoming mania BN and releases chart with unusual LN shield patterning. His Tenshi no Osore map is the second map which has the full LN without a single note in HD diff.
- A high level player from stepmania that also actually a skilled mapper by doing so much of experimental chart that he keeps in graveyard but nonetheless showcase his knowledge in the mapping field. His first ranked map certainly shows that by doing a seldom concept of 1/8 snap jumpstream that's certainly rare to be seen in the community. It happens to be community's favourite and gaining support to have more similar concept of mapping appearing in the ranking field.
- Asking about one of the most enjoyable SV map? without a doubt, Wonki take the crown with some of the zekk remix song he charted himself with aggressive and yet convenient and have sighreadable SV. All of the SV calculation he made revolving the strong bump with chord pattern that's comfortable and satisfying to hit, something that's truly uncommon in ranking charts. Definitely something unique that players would love to tirelessly play over and over.
- Publishing his first ranked map in 2014, YaHao with the former IGN of SanadaYukimura constantly develop his mapping technique and song genre diversity and consistently publishing variative content with how many beatmaps he already ranked until now.
- ZZHBOY was one of a few mappers and BNs who have proficiency in modding and mapping both osu!standard and osu!mania. He mapped mania with smooth note arrangements and clear logics, which made most of his maps quite popular among new players. Besides, he has mapped a few maps with delicate keysounds, which demonstrated his skill in keysounding too. Sadly he has gone inactive since early 2017, but his great efforts to help and influence other mappers and to entertain the players are always praiseworthy.
