meeuw wrote:

So, if I'm correct, since I'm in 299-200K (3.5-4*): I will have to set scores on the 10 maps listed in your spreadsheet, and the difficulty I play should be the one between 3.5-4*? And I have to set these scores between 8 and 21 February? (You should use UTC btw, because 00:00 8 February is different in different places in the world...) And last step is to put my scores in this thread?

I linked specific maps for each bracket, although it wouldn't hurt to include a spot for the specific difficulty name in the spreadsheet.
The maps you play are specific to the bracket you're in, which is set based on your ranking. YOu're welcome to try and play the other maps (or other maps included in the mapsets for your songs), but they won't have any affect on your placement.
Yes
And yes.

Aizuuya wrote:

So did you actually make these pools with people fucking SSing everything in mind? Like rules arent even defined for what happens when someone doesnt even FC the maps.

SS's would be ideal, yes. However, as cool as that would be for the higher SR maps I'm not expecting it there, just FCs at best.

Also, unless I missed something, you're graded by acc % first, which is the first priority. I listed several examples for how winners are determined, and the first example given shows that. I admit I didn't consider weighing between a high-acc non-FC and a low-acc FC as I thought the acc would be a better indicator, but if everyone thinks it would be better to prioritize FCs almost regardless of acc over non-FCs with high acc. (or something to that effect) I can include that in the rules for this and future challenges.

EDIT: To be a bit more specific, I'm asking two questions:

1.) Should FCs generally be prioritized over non-FCs, regardless of acc.? Or should it purely be about acc. regardless of if it's FC'd?
2.) If the answer to #1 is the former, should there be a minimum acc. requirement on FCs before they are considered ahead of non-FCs? (i.e. if this cutoff is 90%, then a 96% non-FC would be considered winning over a 89% FC, but a 90% FC would be winning over that 96% non-FC.)

These are questions that can be answered throughout the challenge, as I would only need an answer determined at the very end before I tally up points. The sooner it's answered the better, though.


EDIT2: The challenge has officially begun, btw. I would like to make a new post for that, but the forums don't allow that within at least a 24-hour period, so.

Also, I have provided a template for housing your scores here in the thread. I highly recommend you all make a post in here ASAP so that I can find them all in fairly close proximity (plus I could include links in the sheet to avoid skimming the thread or something). I would also suggest you try and keep them in the order provided in the spreadsheet to make it easier for me.

(these scores are probably final)

1. From Under Cover (Caught Up In A Love Song) SS
2. Love Dramatic SS
3. Love is MY RAIL 99.80%
4. enchanted love 99.65% fun fact: there are no SS's on this map's leaderboard
5. Koiiro Master Spark 94.56% this one sucked so i gave it a sightread and quit
6. More-more LOVERS!! SS +HD
7. melty love SS
8. Girl meets Love 99.82%
9. Love Emotion! SS
10. can't hide your love SS +DTHR

I personally think it's fine to keep the current criteria as it is (acc% being the first priority).

My Scores










Will put songs in order whenever I SS or get an acceptable acc FC/pass
Small edit - Haven't been able to play much due to college and playing other games with friends. But I finally had time to sit down and fully play the pool, super rushed scores
Edit 2 - nvm fixed the problem, but either way gg Aiz I'm not gonna lose my sanity trying to get good acc on this map pool

Can I withdraw from this?

My scores

Also, how is the winner determined if there's only one person in a bracket?

also about map 10: are we actually gonna play the easy diff?

Done with all scores, though I might try to improve some of them, so make sure to check back from time to time. Thanks

yoony1 wrote:

Can I withdraw from this?

nvm I think i can play (it won't be pretty though)

My scores

I didn't submit songs 1, 4 and 8 because I failed on them lmao.
Hopefully I can improve these scores.

Here are my scores, will be updating as I get better scores on each map.


I'm losing but I'll participate anyways, I can only get decent scores on 3 of these maps. All of these my competitors will put more mods on and beat me with / get a higher spinner score.

dPeace wrote:

also about map 10: are we actually gonna play the easy diff?

He's just encouraging players to go on a 3or4 mod SS play to let players competing more competively. Good luck!

Wait, where is my bracket?

Will update the rest soon (will also revisit some of those maps to get better scores)

[ Sebastian ] wrote:

Wait, where is my bracket?

YOu didn't get back to me on moving up before sign-ups were over, and neither did Heipizhu. Thus, I cut them both. I made a post about it (with the part in question in bold, no less) two days before sign-ups were over. You could argue I should've sent DMs to you both about it, but both of you had plenty of time to tell me if you wanted to move or not.

You're more than welcome to ask for the maps if you want them, but I'm not going to run a challenge for a single-person bracket.

heipizhu wrote:

dPeace wrote:

also about map 10: are we actually gonna play the easy diff?

He's just encouraging players to go on a 3or4 mod SS play to let players competing more competively. Good luck!

Correct. I will probably always make the majority of the maps be at the SR in question, but I wouldn't be against having up to 2-3 maps that are significantly easier for the sake of pushing players to use multiple mods to get an edge.

I forgot to check this thread. That's my fault. Now I can't participate

[ Sebastian ] wrote:

I forgot to check this thread. That's my fault. Now I can't participate

I can still send you the map list if you want to try them, though.

Also, spreadsheet is updated. I need to go to bed right now so I'll attempt to actually count up points tomorrow (/today) or Sunday. If anyone knows of a good way to indicate positions by song such as with conditional formatting, do let me know as I'd like to show that as well but I'm admittedly worried about fucking up the whole thing.

I will also be sending out warnings to everyone with one or fewer submissions tomorrow/today as well. as a heads-up, these players have submitted one or fewer plays to the challenge:

-meeuw
-DPeace
-Bathbombman
-AccountWontWork
-XDreamawayX
-Vaniels
-Happy Satoko
-Rika-Desu
-Juradon
-MitoMitoso
-KupcaH
-Uranium_

You all have until the 15th to have at least two plays submitted or you will be DQ'd and removed.

EDIT: ALso, grats to Aizuuya for actually gaining pp from the challenge, lol.

im hoping for another one of these challenges www

hey i think you missed my post lol (the scores are were in a spoiler box)

I hate how I got disqualified. There's always something that stops me 😠

i don't have patience to do this

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These songs have "Love" in their name, but I only feel pure hate.
Were you in a bad day when choosing them? It feels like I've just put a splinter below my toenail and kicked a wall whenever I play some of these maps.

I will keep playing tho Tech player arc incoming.

Lilyn wrote:

im hoping for another one of these challenges www

There'll be another one in March, though I think most of you won't like it.

(My intent is to have one every month, though we'll see if I can keep that up.)

dPeace wrote:

hey i think you missed my post lol (the scores are were in a spoiler box)

Nah, I just missed it. You're in there, now.

However, your link to #5 (Love Song) leads to a missing page (though I did find it on the song itself), and your SS for Easy Love isn't showing up on Osu itself from what I can tell. I don't doubt that you got the SS, but if you could still provide me with a link from the site itself to be sure, that'd be greatly appreciated.

[ Sebastian ] wrote:

I hate how I got disqualified. There's always something that stops me 😠

Like I told Heip, I can still send you the list of maps I was going to use and you can try on your own.

MitoMitoso wrote:

i don't have patience to do this

Noted.

KupcaH wrote:

*stuff*

Hey, Kup? I think you looked at the wrong bracket. You're in the 49-10K bracket, not <10K, so you likely got the wrong maps to play.

Still, I'm willing to give on this since you did get some submissions in before the time limit. Just be sure to get the right ones and update your post.

XdreamawayX wrote:

These songs have "Love" in their name, but I only feel pure hate.
Were you in a bad day when choosing them? It feels like I've just put a splinter below my toenail and kicked a wall whenever I play some of these maps.

I will keep playing tho Tech player arc incoming.

Like I said, I have effectively zero way to QA 5*+ maps beyond playing them with Auto and just hoping they look playable, and even that is a stretch for me because stuff at your level is still mostly beyond my comprehension. It sucks, though.


In any case, Dpeace, Dreamaway and KupcaH are still in the competition. All the others listed have been disqualified due to not submitting any scores (or in AccountWontWork's case, not submitting enough). Thankfully, though, it does mean that the remaining four brackets all have at least two players. I highly encourage everyone to at least a score input on all the songs, if only to have more points to work with; if you have no score, you get 0 points.

EDIT1: Now updated with the point totals for each player. As a reminder, points were given based off the number of songs in the bracket plus one for SS-ing; there are 10 songs, so the most you can get per song is 11 points for being in first place plus an SS. If you don't have a submission it is treated as 0 points.

And since nobody asked, here's some commentary on the brackets so far.

I don't want you to send me the maps. I'll just wait until next month if you're doing another one of these.

fixed my unsubmitted score and link by making even better scores :tf:

Voidedosu wrote:

DPeace and Biess are actually in a very tight race with only 3 points separating them. DPeace leads with 6 maps to Biess' 4, and a lot of the acc %'s are very close. I could see either of them pulling a head with a serious session or two in the coming week.

nerves go brrrrr

Isn't KupcaH rank 2.7k?

I know my bracket has been cut, but I'll still do the score submission for fun:)
btw, is this the first EZ SS submission in the challenge?

My scores

UPDATES

My scores

There's two maps on this bracket that I really hate playing, I'll try my best not to lose my mind.
That SS choke almost made me enter The Joker arc ngl

MrSparklepants wrote:

Isn't KupcaH rank 2.7k?

...wait, yes, how the fuck is he in the 49-10K?

nvm, Kup.

EDIT: Sheet updated at least for Kup and everyone who posted after the mid-challenge update. I'll get to anyone else's over the weekend.

TWO DAYS LEFT!

I sent out reminder DMs to all participants, and the spreadsheet is fully updated for all submissions and points. It seems that, in the home stretch, things aren't going to be much different to how they were in the middle for a variety of reasons, but at least there was some level of competition between everyone so I'm happy about that.

For the players who still haven't submitted scores for everything, do remember you can still get a steal on people if you just have scores submitted before the deadline.

if i win can you give my supporter to the prize pool of OT's Got Talent (because i don't really have the need for supporter)

flareling22 wrote:

if i win can you give my supporter to the prize pool of OT's Got Talent (because i don't really have the need for supporter)

Very well.

bump
Btw I completed the bracket
community/forums/topics/1715863?n=52

Update:

The final hours of the challenge are here! Get your final scores in before the deadline!

While I will essentially call it finished when it's midnight my time, I'll let scores that come in before the website time (GMT, I think?) says midnight as well.

I wish I could've participated. But I just had to miss the confirmation for moving me up a bracket. Hopefully I'll be able to actually join next month.

The challenge should effectively be over. I'll be giving everything a final look-over tomorrow/today and hopefully announce the winners that night.

The results are in! With much love, the winners are:

From the 200-299K Bracket, DPeace!
From the 100-149K Bracket, Flareling22!
From the 50-99K Bracket, Zyoulou!
From the 10-49K Bracket, Aizuuya!
and from the <10K Bracket, DeathHydra!


All the winning players will be receiving one month of support from me, most likely sometime over the weekend since I'll need to approve international purchases first. As Flareling has requested his winnings go toward OT's got talent, I'll be posting over there shortly to include my winnings (even if the Finale is over by now, I think?).


Many thanks to everyone who participated. I have to admit, it's a little up and down in regards to my feelings on the challenges. My biggest wish would be to see that all the brackets have participants and that they are all competitive, but I figured that would be a hard sell even from the start; still a wish, though. Just the fact I even have 3-5 brackets with people competing in them is amazing enough. It does also help that while I'm trying to run these as well as I can, I do know that a lot of this is experimenting with points systems and rules to see what works and what doesn't. That being said, I do hope to have it mostly solidified by July or August for the rest of the year, and presumably can maintain the same ruleset for any in the future.

In any case, feel free to drop any comments, praise, and/or critique here. Anything I can do to make the next challenges better is always appreciated. And of course, don't forget to sign up for the March Marathon challenge which is open to sign-ups as of this post!

Wish I could've participated in this. But congrats to the people who won.

Unfortunately that I couldn't grind the game as much as I would like to, shit happening IRL, sadly I'm not in a good mental state, but GGS anyways, it was definitely fun!

Voidedosu wrote:

In any case, feel free to drop any comments, praise, and/or critique here. Anything I can do to make the next challenges better is always appreciated. And of course, don't forget to sign up for the March Marathon challenge which is open to sign-ups as of this post!

One opinion that I have about the points system, is that some maps shouldn't be worth the same points as others.
I'll give an example of two maps on my bracket:
Solfa feat. Ceui - Koiiro Recipe
YOASOBI - Love Letter ( I assume you put this map here so we could DT it, but even so)
The difference is like night and day, just play both of those maps and you'll see what I mean.

Of course it would take quite a bit of playtesting to put this into practice so I don't know really, maybe the same thing happened in another bracket, just my opinion.
Koiiro Recipe is a goated map and I couldn't even stop playing this shit, it was a hell of a drug, I was grinding so hard for the FC that I forgot about the challenge lul

XdreamawayX wrote:

One opinion that I have about the points system, is that some maps shouldn't be worth the same points as others.
I'll give an example of two maps on my bracket:
Solfa feat. Ceui - Koiiro Recipe
YOASOBI - Love Letter ( I assume you put this map here so we could DT it, but even so)
The difference is like night and day, just play both of those maps and you'll see what I mean.

I disagree with that, while I do agree that those maps were harder than the others maps, it was mainly due to the required skillset (alt). I think instead of those maps being worth more (or less?) points, there should have been a higher variety of skillsets being tested. (perhaps 2 maps of each category? consistency, jumps, streams, alt, tech). Anyways, it's sad that you weren't able to play the rest of the maps, hope u will be doing better soon!

Voidedosu wrote:

In any case, feel free to drop any comments, praise, and/or critique here. Anything I can do to make the next challenges better is always appreciated. And of course, don't forget to sign up for the March Marathon challenge which is open to sign-ups as of this post!

I think setting up an optional discord server for this challenge would be a nice amelioration to make it more lively. With a discord players would be able to see each other scores more easily (without having to check on the sheet if the scores are there or on the forum as the sheet isn't always updated). Players could also submit individual scores faster (for example, could do a >rs and then ping you). Each time I felt like I had to submit multiple scores at the same time due to score submission being tied to a forum post. I would have liked the ability to just send scores whenever I played on of the map instead of feeling forced to send them in a batch ^^

Perhaps having individual threads for each players in which they send their score would work pretty well.

Thanks again for the challenge, was overall quite fun!

Oh hey thanks for sponsoring the talent show thread man

Zyoulou wrote:

XdreamawayX wrote:

One opinion that I have about the points system, is that some maps shouldn't be worth the same points as others.
I'll give an example of two maps on my bracket:
Solfa feat. Ceui - Koiiro Recipe
YOASOBI - Love Letter ( I assume you put this map here so we could DT it, but even so)
The difference is like night and day, just play both of those maps and you'll see what I mean.

I disagree with that, while I do agree that those maps were harder than the others maps, it was mainly due to the required skillset (alt). I think instead of those maps being worth more (or less?) points, there should have been a higher variety of skillsets being tested. (perhaps 2 maps of each category? consistency, jumps, streams, alt, tech). Anyways, it's sad that you weren't able to play the rest of the maps, hope u will be doing better soon!

Voidedosu wrote:

In any case, feel free to drop any comments, praise, and/or critique here. Anything I can do to make the next challenges better is always appreciated. And of course, don't forget to sign up for the March Marathon challenge which is open to sign-ups as of this post!

I think setting up an optional discord server for this challenge would be a nice amelioration to make it more lively. With a discord players would be able to see each other scores more easily (without having to check on the sheet if the scores are there or on the forum as the sheet isn't always updated). Players could also submit individual scores faster (for example, could do a >rs and then ping you). Each time I felt like I had to submit multiple scores at the same time due to score submission being tied to a forum post. I would have liked the ability to just send scores whenever I played on of the map instead of feeling forced to send them in a batch ^^

Perhaps having individual threads for each players in which they send their score would work pretty well.

Thanks again for the challenge, was overall quite fun!

i think a discord server would be a great idea, but probably not a thread for each player because that would clog up the forum with 20 threads (unless if a 'Voidedosu Challenge' subforum is created which is unlikely). in a discord server there can probably be a channel for each player though

also, XdreamawayX i hope you can feel better soon <3

this challenge was actually so fun thx mr Voidedosu 4 hosting this!

flareling22 wrote:

i think a discord server would be a great idea, but probably not a thread for each player because that would clog up the forum with 20 threads (unless if a 'Voidedosu Challenge' subforum is created which is unlikely). in a discord server there can probably be a channel for each player though

Yea you are right, was just thinking of that as a way to avoid lots of ping, perhaps a thread for each bracket, so participants can communicate between each other and see each other scores and create a sense of rivarly

I usually avoid necro-ing posts, but I did want to bump this one final time just to be sure the winners are aware that I sent out their winnings. I sincerely apologize for being so late in giving them out.

(I know that they should get notifications as well, but just in case they check here first before anywhere else)