13 Nov 2014
Monthly Beatmapping Contest: Aspire Results!
by Ephemeral

Monthly Beatmapping Contest: Aspire Results!

by Ephemeral

After several months of intense deliberation, the winner of the Aspire Monthly Beatmapping Contest has finally been declared, in what is possibly one of our closest (and most surprising) results so far!

Judging the staggering number of entries submitted to Aspire was no small task. The judges were faced with 118 unique entries from mappers across the globe, looking for the most creative and impressive beatmaps that they could find. In a surprise twist, Loctav and myself entered the judging panel at the last minute to cast our own appraisal on each and every map's creative vision.

In a shocking upheaval that left us utterly astonished, Charles445 broke away from a two way tie for second place between ThEBonzi and fartownik with a single point, leaving him with a cumulative score of 142 compared to the 141 of the runners up.

Honorable mentions go to Low and Damnae, who tied for third place each with a score of 140.

We were all surprised and amazed by the sheer range of entries we received, with some players utilizing clever storyboarding techniques to alter their maps dramatically, with others opting to go for huge design and placement changes that set themselves apart from their peers. So impressed, infact, that we will be considering hosting another Aspire-style MBC in the near future across a variety of genres and gamemodes. Look forward to it! We've also decided to approve the winning map for ranked play, but be warned - it is harder than possibly anything you've played yet!

Play the winning beatmap here, and view the judges' commentary here.

—Ephemeral

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im from 2021 and osu has gotten worse

Waiting for the next "Monthly Storyboarder Contest" (:

gratz everyjuan

lol #76
At least I'm not last...

gonna sick cause charles's map owo)b too damn god (not good,, god)

corrupt beatmap

o<-<

Damn, someone went a long way from that Ellie Goulding map. :^)

congratz for everyone!!

thebonzi too pro(

good!

yawn

<3 Hooooooooooooow :3

Well, shit.

congratulations to all the winners.

did Garven and Ephemeral played all maps, or just looked at them from editor?
I wonder how they managed to play with rank like that

Ephemeral kirinokirino

Once upon (a very long) time ago, I used to be somewhat decent at the game. My rank has decayed to the point where that's not obvious anymore, but I can still play the vast majority of the aspire maps with a bit of effort and truly appreciate them. Garven is the same, and is marginally better at the game than I am besides.

Myxo kirinokirino

Yeah I think they played it... But you know, when you don't play osu! actively (only testing your own maps / other's maps) you constantly loose PP.

as I know, since Tom joined developers team and made new pp points, they are persistent. You only loose rank, becouse other players can overtake you. This doesn't really matter, btw.
did you played all these maps? any with HT, or NF? Relax, maybe? x)

Wow nice!

I actually won 8 times, so all my #1s added up and became #8. True fact.

Tammy Fan Club MillhioreF

Ha ha ha, so funny, oh em gee, hurdurp

Howl MillhioreF

10/10 legit

this contest is actually awesome, congrats to the winner

:E

One wins from a hundred... gz ._.

Ohh finally :3 Once again, Gratz Charles!

What a wonderful contest !
I hope to see new results of MBC #7 soon!

Dainesl Secretpipe

Hopefully that doesn't take months too -w-

Two ties for 2nd

Two ties for 3rd
It's one point off all the way down to #22, even with 6 judges holy crap

EDIT: It looks like Loctav and Ephemeral participated in the voting, but restricted themselves to only modifying the "Creativity" category. That's still insane that it was that close

Damnae Charles445

Both ties are cool

Avena Damnae

don't u mean bow ties

Loctav Charles445

Since this was a creativity contest, we decided to give the "Creativity" part a higher value and impact by doing this.

Ephemeral Loctav

Loctav's being shy, we just wanted an excuse to pore through the maps before they were released and we were so impressed that we decided to judge them as well.

They were seriously good. Goddamn.

This makes me perspire

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This makes me perspire