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Mania Aspire Contest [Winner: LordRaika!]

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Ciel
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Ciel

Mania Aspire Contest


The contest will be divided into 2 phases, with judging coming after both.

Song Selection


This phase will be divided into 3 stages that should last over the course of about 2 weeks. This will be to decide which song people will need to map for this contest.

Stage 1: Song Suggestions

In this stage, anybody who is interested will be able to submit suggestions for songs to use for the contest. This includes judges, myself, aliens, anyone. Note that suggesting a song will not necessarily guarantee it moves on to the next stage of this phase. (Namely, I will be tossing out generic songs, such as TV Sizes for example). All other songs that make it will then move on to Stage 2.

Stage 2: Preliminary Voting

In this stage, all maps that have made it past Stage 1 are allowed to be selected here. In this stage, everyone can vote for any number of songs. At the end of 7 days, the top x songs with the most amount of votes will then move on to the last stage, where x depends on the distribution of votes at the top. I aim to have around 5 songs advance.

Stage 3: Final Voting

Fuck it this is TBA. Discussions are being held.

Mapping


At the end of song selection, I will (attempt to) time the song that was chosen, and then release a base .osz for submissions. At this point, you will have a month of time to create something fun. Similar to the standard Aspire contest, there are only 2 (or 3) rules:

  1. Maps should be osu!mania only. I'm not responsible for scores given to submissions in other gamemodes.
  2. Maps must be passable. FCs do not have to be possible.
  3. Don't put anything NSFW in your map. Please.
Beyond that, you are free to do whatever you want! Provide your own BG, storyboard, hitsounds, whatever! You will be submitting .osz's instead of .osu's, so you will have complete freedom to do whatever you want in your map.

During the contest period, you may PM me a submission to the song as many times as you wish. I will only take the last submission sent to me, and use that as your final submission. Submission format will be posted when this phase begins.

Judging


After I have received all the submissions, I will anonymize all of them, and then give them to the judges. At this point, they will have some amount of time in order to look at all the submissions, and assign scores to them as follows:

  1. Technical Skill (10 points)
  2. Creativity (20 points)
  3. Structure + Flow (10 points)
  4. Judges Impressions (10 points)
After each judge has finished assigning score to each map, the final scores will be computed as follows:

Let S_A be the average of a judge's submissions, and let SD be the standard deviation. Each raw score will be converted to a standarized score as follows:

S* = (S-S_A)/SD

Finally, each maps score will be the sum of the standarized score of the judges, potentially multiplied/added by a constant for clarity. (Note that this will not change the ordering of the final results).

Prizes


Currently TBA. I plan to at least have some amount of supporter given out for the top 3 submissions, and possibly more depending on how negotiations go.
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Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel

Staff


Organizer:
Ciel
Judges:
Evening
-Kamikaze-
juankristal
Nivrad00
spoonguy

Schedule


Tentative, subject to change.
  1. 1.1: Song Suggestions - 5/22-5/28
  2. 1.2: Preliminary Voting - 5/29-6/4
  3. 1.3: Final Voting - 6/5 - 6/7
  4. 2: Mapping - 6/9 - 7/9
  5. 3: Judging - 7/9 - ??? (Depends on number of submissions)

Current Stage

>>> Results! <<<

Discord

Click here to join!

Special Thanks


Everyone who submitted songs. This was a really nice set of songs that were suggested, thanks for that. In fact, I even got 0 TV size suggestions (or even anime song suggestions actually), so that was nice.

Hydria - For helping me organize/anonymizing the submissions.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.
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puxtu
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Joined August 2013
puxtu
sign me the fuck up ✓
Wh1teh
237 posts
Joined May 2013
Wh1teh
Ebin.

Does the set have to be "rankable"?
lenpai
Beatmap Nominator
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Joined December 2014
lenpai

Wh1teh wrote:

Ebin.

Does the set have to be "rankable"?
"(The difficulty rule is deliberately vague. We want to encourage mappers to break the current mold of difficulty = creativity. Intelligent use of everything at a mapper’s disposal (storyboards, backing videos, .osu file editing, hitsounds, timing sections, etc) is what we’re looking for over maps that are exceptionally difficult.)"

"The standard Ranking Criteria does NOT apply. Mappers are completely free to pursue whatever they envision for the song. Mapping techniques such as “2B” are also allowed. A good example of many of these “fringe” mapping techniques is expressed in the popular “Debug” difficulty of aran - Graces of Heaven mapped by rustbell (aka: spro)."

std aspire said this so im pretty sure we can go nuts
Rilene
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Joined April 2014
Rilene
What? Is this really official? As if it is said that it is rankable without following standard Ranking Criteria.
Todestrieb
305 posts
Joined February 2014
Todestrieb
Let's roll people.
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Slight update: Extended the length of Preliminary Voting, as it looks like there's going to be a a lot of songs to go through.
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
A little over a day left for suggestions if anyone hasn't sent them in yet. Keep them coming!

UPDATE: Going through submissions right now. You have until sometime tonight (when I finish everything) to actually submit.
-[C R A Z Y]-
107 posts
Joined January 2015
-[C R A Z Y]-
Osu!mania need more Helblinde and memes
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
So I narrowed the submissions from 37 suggestions to 25 choices for this first round, in order to make it easier on people to listen to all of these songs. Thanks for everyone who submitted songs (and for that one person who submitted something like 15 things)!

You have until sometime on 6/4 or 5 before I close this round and narrow it down to the top few songs, so start voting for things you like!

I ask that you only vote at most once for each song, but there is no hard way for me to enforce it, so I'll just be trusting everyone here to do so.
Nivrad00
556 posts
Joined October 2012
Nivrad00
If we choose a song that's really long will you cut it for the contest ;n;
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
I personally won't, but feel free to do it yourself . :P

I guess now would be a good time to get into slightly more specific details about the mapping stage:

  1. 1. Unless there are any objections to this, I am going to allow judges to also participate in this contest as well. I believe nobody here will attempt to game the scoring system in order to make their entry win.
  2. 2. Judges submissions will be weighted as the average of the other 4 judges scores. Math will be used to normalize the scores to everyone else's final scores.
  3. 3. When submitting maps, you will be submitting .osz's. This means you can include whatever you want with your map, and modify any components as well (including mp3's, skins, storyboards, etc.)
  4. 4. Because outliers can screw up scoring, I will be not including scores of joke/broken submissions when normalizing other scores.
Halogen-
Former osu!mania 4K Champion: 2015
574 posts
Joined September 2009
Halogen-
Dropped my votes - there's not only a lot of good songs, but also a lot of songs that could make for multiple things that are largely different from one another. Definitely a big fan of a good majority of the choices.
Kroly-
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Kroly-
Something for me xD
Count me in.
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Obligatory day and a half reminder before votes close. They'll probably end on time this time around, since I don't need to sit through a few hours of listening to music.

EDIT: Last stage of voting is going through revisions/discussion atm.
Ciel
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Topic Starter
Ciel
I closed votes for now, so I can figure out what I'm doing next.

The reason I'm saying that is because someone decided to vote for Helblinde at least 8 times, and I have fairly convincing proof of this. So whoever that was, you ruined it for everyone. Helblinde is being taken off, and I'm discussing what to do with the last part of voting right now.
Wh1teh
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Joined May 2013
Wh1teh
Couldn't you just make a forum poll?
Ciel
170 posts
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Topic Starter
Ciel
Not for the previous round, due to the fact that there were 25 song choices. I also kind of wanted to make people vote without knowing the state of the other votes as well.

Anyways, Discord is a thing if you guys want. Right now the current plan is for the judges to discuss which song should be selected, though this will take quite a few days.
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Elekton
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Elekton
just fuck my shit up tbh
Houraisan-
45 posts
Joined September 2015
Houraisan-
when will you choose maps again? I want to send my map too -w-
Nivrad00
556 posts
Joined October 2012
Nivrad00
The mapping period is currently June 8 to July 8, but that's subject to change! Judging will happen after mapping ends
Houraisan-
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Joined September 2015
Houraisan-
soo are you still accepting maps? mine is done already in the sense '' I don't know what else I could do to modify or make it better '' thus is done in that aparent aspect.
Nivrad00
556 posts
Joined October 2012
Nivrad00
You have to map the song that we choose. The song choice will be announced at the beginning of the mapping period ;n;
Arzenvald
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Arzenvald
oooooooo i late.. mfw no one pick this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAFEqqyuvds

sign me le fk up C:
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
So after a couple days of discussion and waiting, the song that was chosen is...

Camellia - Lunatic Rough Party!! (the short version)

That being said, mapping now begins! Here is your pre-timed .osz, as well as normalization SVs to get you guys started. I will get the results of voting up over the weekend (probably), but for now, start mapping, and good luck!
lemonguy
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Joined July 2014
lemonguy
lmao
Halogen-
Former osu!mania 4K Champion: 2015
574 posts
Joined September 2009
Halogen-
Hype!
Gazelle
17 posts
Joined February 2012
Gazelle
do ya wanna party?
juankristal
osu! Alumni
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juankristal

-Gazelle wrote:

do ya wanna party?
yes I do
dionzz99
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dionzz99
SIGN ME UP OMG!!
arviejhay
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arviejhay
I wanna join xD.
so only 1 difficulty right?
Izzz
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Izzz
What were some of the other songs that were in the running?
AncuL
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AncuL
nobody told me THIS
Nivrad00
556 posts
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Nivrad00
Here were some runner ups, Joezapy

cYsmix - Haunted House
Camellia - routing
Savant - Technodrome

There were a bunch tho
Monstrata
Elite Mapper: Aspirant
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Monstrata
I can't wait to map some unrankable 2B patterns on mania!!
[ A v a l o n ]
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Joined July 2014
[ A v a l o n ]
wow, this is no so nice :3
edit : ups wrong typing lol, sorry
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Ciel
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Topic Starter
Ciel
3 week reminder for people that haven't started yet.

On another note, some things I need to address:

  1. If you're submission is especially bad (would annoy me to death), I'm going to reject it, so the judges don't have to deal with it.
  2. You only need to submit a single diff. Any extra diffs that you submit may or may not be judged to the discretion of the judges.
Ciel
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Ciel
I just realized I forgot to give my 2 week reminder. Oops.

On that note, There are approximately 10 days until the deadline. If you haven't started yet, now would probably be a good time. I'll give another reminder at the 3 day mark, as well as the day before the deadline as well.
AncuL
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AncuL

Nivrad00 wrote:

Camellia - routing
i tried to map routing a few weeks ago. i gave up
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Forgot this, but there's less than 3 days left to submit something! For those of you that still haven't started, good luck I guess?
Ciel
170 posts
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Topic Starter
Ciel
Roughly 12 hours left. Get your submissions in!
juankristal
osu! Alumni
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Joined August 2010
juankristal
Hype? :o
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Submissions are closed!...

Stuff is now happening behind the scenes. Enjoy a progress meter.
Jinjin
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Jinjin
That's a sexy progress bar :)
juankristal
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juankristal
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Results will be coming out at latest Sunday. Sorry about the wait, but I promise you guys it will be well worth it.
Ciel
170 posts
Joined March 2012
Topic Starter
Ciel
Finally, results are in! Congratulations to the top 3 submissions, by LordRaika, Nivrad00, and wizardoffail! 3/2/1 months of supporter are on your way.

This is a link to a results and the submission pack. A few notes though:
  1. Nivrad00 and spoonguy do not have scores nor comments listed, due to various reasons.
  2. Backgrounds were anonymized during the judging process. They were randomly selected all all take on Contestant A's background.
  3. Contestant A will be anonymized, for reasons you'll see if you check out his/her submission.
  4. Kamikaze's comments for hannanos gives an incorrect total score at the end. This is fixed in the final results
Thanks for all the submissions, and I hope that these maps are fun to watch as well! I might hold some more contests in the future, but that will be quite a while from now (most likely). See you all next time! (or later in this thread)
Aqo
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Aqo
Contestant A chart was pretty fun

[edit after trying the rest] let me be honest here I had more fun playing Contestant A's chart than any of the voted top 3 :/
maybe I understood this wrong and the point of this contest was not to make charts for playing but for watching autoplay
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juankristal
osu! Alumni
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juankristal
Congratulations to all the mappers who took part of this contest. It was a fun experience to judge them and I found really interesting stuff over here.

Kudos to all the judges and of course to Ciel as well who managed to force me to finish the judging on time :P

Even when we might lack some elements that STD has, we could show the world that mania can also be a reaaaally great contestant when it comes to crazy and aspire-ish stuff. Once again, as Ciel said, congratulations to LordRaika, Nivrad00 and wizardoffail for achieving the top 3!

Aqo wrote:

Contestant A chart was pretty fun
I agree!
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