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PENDING CUP 2024 (PDC2024) Mapping Contest

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Welcome to PENDING CUP 2024


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Pending Cup is originally a Chinese mapping contest, which had its first iteration in 2013 held by NatsumeRin. Through the past years, the Pending Cup has always been a means of encouraging creative mapping and finding new talent across the entire mapping community, and it will always be the core value of the contest.

This year, we are expanding even further with a larger scale and prize pool.
We strongly encourage and welcome you to participate in this event!

This year's contest will be hosted by Chaoslitz, seros and Elayue.

  1. Beatmapping (1.5 months): August 25 to October 24 (15:59 UTC)
  2. Judging (1.5 months): October 24 to December 9
  3. Results (1 week): December 16
Beatmapping and judging phase deadlines are subject to change.

Vocal track


qfeileadh feat. レゾナンスもえこ – アルスノヴァに喝采を
2:47 || 185 BPM

Download beatmap template here


Instrumental track


∀S∀ – Assault TAXI
2:30 || 154 BPM

Download beatmap template here


Featured Artist track


Rabbit House – Seculo Seculorum
2:22 || 210 BPM

Download beatmap template here



Track prizes


Our contest will have 3 separate 1st to 3rd rankings for each track. Since you are only allowed to submit one entry,
you may have a higher chance of winning if you pick your song wisely!


1st Place: $75 USD, 12 months of osu! supporter, Elite Mapper contest points,
Track Winner profile badge (pending design)

2nd Place: $35 USD, 6 months of osu! supporter, Elite Mapper contest points

3rd Place: $15 USD, 4 months of osu! supporter, Elite Mapper contest points



Grand prizes


For the winner with the highest points out of the 3 tracks, we have a special grand prize section!

1st Place: Wooting 60HE+ (courtesy of TtmnZk), custom Pending Cup 2024 sticker set and keychain

2nd Place: osu! deskmat of your choice (courtesy of Chaoslitz),
custom Pending Cup 2024 sticker set and keychain

3rd Place: Custom Pending Cup 2024 sticker set and keychain



Besides that, we will also have two lucky draws of 1 month of osu! supporter for anyone who participates (excluding prize winners).
Make sure to join our Discord server so that you can get involved!

Format


  1. This is an osu! mode mapping contest.

Mapping


  1. Submission must include ONE DIFFICULTY ONLY.
  2. Submission must use one of the provided songs.
  3. Collaborations are not allowed. Submission must be a solo entry.
  4. Submission must be in .osz format.
  5. Submission must use standard difficulty names: Easy, Normal, Hard, Insane, and Expert.
  6. You must not include a video or storyboard in your submission.
  7. You must not modify the background and metadata of your submission. Metadata includes the title, artist, beatmap creator, source and tags.
  8. You are allowed to modify timing (including red lines) based on your needs. This action is at your own risk.
  9. You are allowed to modify combo colours, bookmarks, and the preview time.
  10. Submission must not be publicly revealed until after the results are announced.
  11. The ranking criteria must be respected except in cases where they cannot be applied, such as beatmap spread. While mistakes are tolerated, submissions containing major unrankable issues may result in a deduction of points.

Submission


  1. Once you are finished, head over to the contest listing to submit your map. You are allowed to resubmit your entry anytime before the mapping phase has ended.

Judging criteria


  • Expertise (40%)

Expertise refers to how well the map executes itself to reflect the elements in the music. This reflects the technical skill of a mapper. However, in the Pending Cup, judging is not modding. Although we promote maps with expertise and professionalism and care about details, judges are discouraged from being nitpicky on small mistakes or minor unrankables, and will instead score in this category while considering an overarching picture of the map.
  • Creativity (40%)

Creativity refers to how reasonably outstanding the map is compared to the current mapping meta. A generic map in the current mapping meta or copy-pasting concepts from other "famous" maps is discouraged. The Pending Cup promotes creativity, so the winners of PDC should guide the mapping meta instead of following it.
  • Judge's Impression (20%)

Judges can use this for extra scores or penalties for their specific comments or remarks on something in the entry. The base Judge's Impression score is set to 10, and judges must explicitly mention why they apply any additions or deductions to that score.
Judges are instructed to be consistent in their judging style across each track when judging.

Arsalan
sofa
_Stan
lets goooooooooooo
enneya
🙏🙏🙏
seros
sofa
niat0004
Kyoku copy-paste judging criteria
seros

niat0004 wrote:

Kyoku copy-paste judging criteria
they don't know it hasn't been changed for 4 iterations

community/forums/topics/1313478?n=1
yf_bmp

niat0004 wrote:

Kyoku copy-paste judging criteria
2021: community/forums/topics/1313478?n=1
2022: community/forums/topics/1589635?n=1
2023: community/forums/topics/1774614?n=1

Please weigh your words before speaking, and maintaining a normal level of reasoning will benefit you.
Shiraya Sayuki

niat0004 wrote:

Kyoku copy-paste judging criteria
bro is worse than me lmao
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