Beatmap Nominators

See also: Beatmap Nominator Rules and General Information for Beatmap Nominator

The Beatmap Nominators, commonly abbreviated as BN, is a group in charge of beatmap nomination. As of 2014-08-22, they are no longer a part of the staff, revoking their chat moderation in-game, red name in-game, and on the forums. As of 2015-02-01, the team was changed from the Beatmap Appreciation Team to the Beatmap Nominators. Currently, they have a purple name on the forums and in beatmap discussions.

Roles and Responsibilities

Members of the Beatmap Nominators are responsible primarily for modding the pending beatmaps into the ranking cycle. Beatmap Nominators are the people to go to for advice or requests about anything mapping or modding related. Full members of the Beatmap Nominators are also responsible for disqualifying beatmaps in the qualified section that are found to have significant issues, while probationary Beatmap Nominators focus solely on nomination.

Becoming a Beatmap Nominator

With the change to the team in May 2019, joining the Beatmap Nominators became a lot easier than it used to be in the past. Applications to join can be submitted on this website.

Applicants are required to meet a modding activity requirement, submit at least two maps they have recently modded, and complete a test on the ranking criteria in order to submit their application. There is a 90 day cooldown for submitting new applications once an application has been submitted. A message from the NAT will be sent once a verdict has been decided. More information on applying can be found on the website.

Basic Criteria

Modders that aim to apply to the Beatmap Nominators must fulfil the following criteria:

• They have been modding beatmaps actively for at least 3 months prior to the announcement.
• They have accumulated at least 150 or 200 Kudosu in total, depending on the mode they apply to.
• They provide 2 to 4 of their mods which they think qualify them to be a part of the Beatmap Nominators.

What Qualifies as a Mod Post

• Upon signing up the website will automatically calculate your kudosu score from the last 3 months.
• A mod post qualifies as one if it has received a Kudosu and has been created within the 3 months.
• Since November 2017, beatmaps affected under Modding V2 had a reward system implemented based on upvotes/downvotes. The "mod post" equivalent in this case is a beatmap discussion, in which at least one suggestion/problem got awarded with an upvote.
• The gamemode (osu!, osu!mania, osu!catch, osu!taiko) that you modded beatmaps in does not matter as your activity in the modding community as a whole is being measured and not the activity in a certain game mode.
• The point in time at which the Kudosu has been awarded to your mod post does matter, as the calculator embed in the website will fetch the data from your own Modding History events.

How the Required Minimum Score is Calculated

• This depends on the total Mod Score an applicant achieved over the last months. This value is determined according to the following formula:

Mod Score Formula

• m = Minimum expected number of individual beatmaps modded in a month

• M = Total achieved number of individual beatmaps modded in a month

• This online tool can be used to calculate mod score.

• In order to determine their Required Minimum Score, the sum of the total Mod Score within the last three months must be greater or equal to zero,

• The overall minimum threshold is set to the following values:

  • osu!taiko, osu!catch and osu!mania: m = 3 and a total of 150 kudosu or more
  • osu!: m = 4 and a total of 200 kudosu or more

• It is usually a good idea to keep your score above these numbers, as they can vary slightly depending on the number of applicants.

How new potential Beatmap Nominators are chosen

• The Mod Score of all applications will be doublechecked to confirm if they reached the Required Minimum Score.
• Modders that acquired enough score will be evaluated by the corresponding NAT members of the game mode they applied for, taking into account the following criteria:
  • General attitude: Tone of delivery of the mods and other behavioural expectations from the Code of Conduct, as well as general behaviour in chat/forums.
  • Modding abilities: Knowledge of the general Ranking Criteria and specific criteria of each game mode. Additional abilities like Metadata, Timing, and some others will also be taken into consideration.
• After evaluating each modder, a discussion will be made on whether the modder will join the Beatmap Nominators.

Quality Assurance Helpers

The Quality Assurance Helpers are volunteers inside of the Beatmap Nominators who assist the Quality Assurance Team at checking every single qualified beatmap for issues. They do so by reporting maps on the Report a Qualified beatmap here! thread.

Quality Assurance Helpers are free to choose whatever maps they like to check as long as they check at least four qualified maps per month. If they are not able to fulfill these activity standards, they will be removed and can only rejoin after a cooldown of one month. Beatmap Nominators who are not on their probationary period or in the cooldown period mentioned above may join the Quality Assurance Helpers at any time.

Team Members

The tables listed below indicate the game mode(s) in which each Beatmap Nominator is formally qualified to nominate.

Please note: All BN speak English unless otherwise noted. Link to the full user group page and probationary user group page.

osu!standard

osu!taiko

osu!catch

osu!mania