Hello everybody!
Formally, the disqualification was a bit unnecessay for the listed reasons, yet I'd like to arise a few things that concern me a lot. Attention was brought to me for this mapset because of this rather doubtful disqualification, yet, apart of why it actually got disqualfiied, I have serious concerns about certain things in this mapset:
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[Extraordinary]
00:20:841 (20841|6,20841|3,20920|5,20920|1,20999|6,20999|4,21078|5,21078|2) - This is basically mapped to nothing. I really tried to figure out where this is coming from. Especially because 00:20:920 (20920|1,20920|5,20999|4,20999|6,21078|2,21078|5) - are having soft hitsounds, its proving the point that this notes were made super silent, so this overmapping does not disrupt the song itself.
On this other side 00:23:368 (23368|0,23368|1,23447|2,23447|3,23525|1,23604|3,23604|0,23683|1,23683|2) - is working fine with the background noise supporting it. Unfortunately, this background noise is not given on the first spot. Try to be more careful!
00:25:736 (25736|6,25736|5,25815|3,25815|4) - this is a bit unnecessarily tricky, I guess. Especially 00:25:736 (25736|6) - . Listening closely, the 1/4 is not beginning here, but a bit later. (Actually here: 00:25:894 (25894|2) -)
00:28:420 (28420|6,28420|4,28499|5,28499|3,28578|4,28578|2,28657|6,28657|5,28736|4) - this again is overdone like at the first point.
00:48:236 (48236|5) - I would put that on the 6th column. Just a suggestion. Putting this on the 4th is impractical for lefties, which use the left thumb on space. Putting it on 6th may play this 1/4 with left hand, right hand and left hand for everyone.
01:00:157 (60157|6) - Why does this end earlier?
01:01:578 (61578|3) - this early ending is confusing me, because the previous 4-holds are following the vocals and this one suddenly stops in the middle of the stanza. I'd lengthen it and adjust it to the actual vocal length.
01:02:051 (62051|6) - again no idea why this ends earlier than the others.
01:05:682 (65682|2,65682|5,65761|3,65761|0,65840|4,65840|1,65919|3,65919|5) - there are no 1/4 in the music
01:08:208 (68208|3,68208|1,68208|6,68287|2,68287|4,68366|5,68366|6,68445|2,68445|3) - ^
01:10:735 (70735|5,70735|1,70735|3,70735|0,70814|4,70814|2,70893|5,70893|0,70972|3,70972|1) - ^
(and so on...)
02:00:786 (120786|0,120786|6,120865|1,120865|5,120944|2,120944|0,120944|6,120944|4) - I think this SV change can be made more smooth. It's a bit too stuttery here. The previous ones were working perfectly, but this one has a rather iffy transistion compared to the others. Try to make the speedup/slowdown more smooth, so it's not too sudden and a bit more predictable on the first attempt of playing this beatmap.
02:30:469 (150469|0,150469|3,150548|6,150548|4,150627|2,150627|0,150627|3) - whereas you put 1/4 stuff in the kiai time where are no 1/4, you are leaving out the 1/4 here entirely. Try to add stuff here, I'd recommend it.
03:03:468 (183468|6,183468|0,183468|4,183468|3,183468|2) - I believe that this can even be more drastic, but this is just a suggestion!
03:18:310 (198310|2,198310|6,198310|4) - slow the section down more severely, speed up till 03:18:625 (198625|0,198625|5,198625|3) - and then let it run with your planned SV. I think this SV change is not noticeable enough. I think a more noticeable speedchange would benefit this effect.
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So let me summarize: The spread seems fine, but some stuff on the Extraordinary diff makes me worry. I'd recommend, to get this ranked and improved:
- Revise your note placement. Some stuff is overmapped, whereas you leave out offering sound samples on other spots, which you did not map, even if they could
- Revise some SV changes. Whereas most of them are really good (and the usage of slowdowns and speedups for a bigger section seem to fit here quite well), especially the short effect speedups and slowdowns to simulate a "sudden dropdown" are not as good as they could be. If you need help with that, try to look on some Lieselotte maps or ask me for help. I can try to adjust the speed changes for you, if you don't mind.
- Some holds are behaving oddly. They are not ending or beginning where they actually should begin and end. Try to look into that, too!
- Avoid making stuff more tricky than needed. Keep in mind, how hands are used. Keep in mind, the middle column (4th) is used by left and right hand, theoretically, since there are people either playing this one with the left or with the right hand thumb (if standard key layout is given). Try to keep in mind, how this plays for different setups. This isn't a specific issue in this mapset itself, but the one or another pattern can be improved and be made more fluent without breaking the entire map.
The disqualification itself was unjustified. I actually planned to requalify this instantly to revoke this decision, but I saw that the Extraordinary diff may need a few more adjustments. I also did not check the other difficulties indepth, yet they seemed fine during testplaying on first glance.
I am all up for requalifying this, whenever someone from the BAT felt like rebubbling this. Make sure to keep my addressed issues in mind.
Keep in mind I am a busy person, but I'd like to get this back. Just bother me in-game and I try to do my best to help you out here.