4 Feb 2019
Community Choice 2018: Results
by Ephemeral

Community Choice 2018: Results

by Ephemeral

You've had your say, and we have our winners! Check out the new Community Favourites of 2018, featuring some of the closest voting we've ever seen!

Thousands of people voted on their favorite beatmaps from 2018, but there can only be one winner! Let's get right into it:

osu!

2489 voters could feel the rush now as they enjoyed Nathan's take on the video-game cross K-pop masterpiece that took the world by storm, K/DA - POP/STARS (ft. Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns)!

This will likely come as a surprise to some who expected one map from the ubiquitous deluge of "farm" maps to nab top place, but as this goes to show, sometimes you just need to stop farming creeps and get out there and start nabbing kills, something that Nathan and his collaborators managed with effortless ease.

The finalists were:

Check out the full results over on the contest listing for this mode!

osu!taiko

121 drum fanatics stepped forward and said "hell yes" to SOUND HOLIC feat. Nana Takahashi - XINOBIKILL by Skull Kid, in some of the closest voting we've ever observed in a Community Choice poll or a "Best Of" to date.

Seriously, at some points, there were less than 3 votes splitting first, second, and third place. When we tweeted about the votes drawing to a close, there was a two-way tie for first place for at least a day before the votes were slated to close.

Crazy stuff. Congratulations!

The finalists were:

Check out the full results over on the contest listing for this mode!

osu!catch

With 182 votes, the collaborative sets by Ascendance, Spectator and Hareimu on Co shu Nie - asphyxia (TV edit) hosted by Monstrata strangled out the competition solidly with a nearly 50 point lead.

Similar to osu!taiko, the voting for osu!catch was a super close endeavour all up until the last three or four days of voting, when asphyxia surged forward with a lead that the other sets could just not recover from.

The agonizing choice many osu!catch players were forced to make is super obvious in the sheer vote gap between many of the finalist entries, shown purely in the fact that 2nd and 3rd place are literally one vote apart.

Yowza.

The finalists were:

Check out the full results over on the contest listing for this mode!

osu!mania

621 voters saw reason to celebrate MAZARE - Mazare Party by Insp1r3 with a positively dominating lead over its competition, leading the pack by nearly a solid third of the next highest finalist.

Having been featured in the Seasonal Spotlights already, it's no surprise that this map was a crowd favourite.

The finalists were:

Check out the full results over on the contest listing for this mode!


The winners for each mode will be taking home a shiny new profile badge, and 6 months of osu!supporter for their hard-earned win, and each finalist will also score 3 months of osu!supporter for each win, stacking if they've had multiple maps featured in the voting.

A full rundown of the voting can be viewed in a spreadsheet here.

Thank you to everybody who came out and spent the time to vote, and we'll see you again this time next year to find out who's the community favourite of 2019.

—Ephemeral

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for osu!std it was just a pp torny
nice

Any way to see more than the top 50? I didn't have most of the maps in the top 50 being a noob, and I would like to find more good maps to play

I think ppl picked just a fav songs for them :p

For Osu!mania where the fuck is Discloze...

Pretty disappointing ngl..

taiko results omg
please tell me it's a joke

fucking k pop, black rover was the best map this year obviously

VinZentVanDough Garfield_osu

OmegaLUL

Sunset Haven Garfield_osu

lol

Imagine playing osu unironically

nice lol

점점 망해가노

lol, imagine voting sotarks even ironically

Not gonna lie

Almost all those maps seems like a joke

Miniministop made it to the finalist of taiko what lol

taiko vote is bit rigged

it's a shame to see that people don't vote for taiko as much as the other modes but GJ to whoever won

todo muy calidauva :v

MIR COMMUNITY CHOICE

oh man i love my favourite taiko maps black rove,r shiro vs hit or gito and xxtension ca ble - joceyn floors

80% of the Taiko finalists consist of PP maps? I don't know why I got my hopes up expecting to see anything different.

i sleep

the taiko voting was a joke. oof. how'd the pp map hybrid sets get so far?

Skull Kid tatatat

sorry

Kyoumo tatatat

ok

K4L1 tatatat

Skull Kid best mapper

giyokon tatatat

its really bad

never have I been more proud to collab a platter than now

so few votes for taiko ;(

ulko Chaartimor

that's because the gamemode is dead. no joke

Aaron Hagger Chaartimor

thats because dead gamemode lol
im joking

pog

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Deoxx Daylight--

calls tech maps boring
top plays/most played maps are farm maps
bro, you are only a pp farmer who cant play nothing than just pp maps, all your most played maps are fucking farm maps, how do you even dare to call tech maps bad or boring

Garfield_osu Daylight--

exit this earths atmosphere was a great map. Just because you can't play it doesn't mean it's bad lmao

Asono-chan Garfield_osu

no the maps actually suck tbh

Pennek Daylight--

and camellia probox map because of 1 month long twitter spam. im still tilted if anyone cant read it from my salt

GREAT SELECTION OF MAPS!!!!1!!!11!1!11

Oui Z419

INDEED

welp, at least sotarks isnt #1, so ill take that :)

Actually quite satisfied with the osu! category.

meh HOLY WORLD not in top 50 lame

Catch the beat is tragic

It's funny how 4K mania maps gets more votes just because it's the most popular keymode. Almost no 7K maps in top 50. Nice.

Arzenvald Meiju

don't count marigold and glorious crown, then

lenpai Arzenvald

heavily doubt there are people who actually voted glorious crown for the 7k diffs
marigold is aight though

:o nice

IIT: people mad that the community votes maps the community liked, just wait for mca

Kilabarus Saileach

But VINXIS said that there won't be MCA this year

Taiko is tragic

3 sotarks maps with taiko gds in top 10...

ulko ulko

expected and dissapointing

thanks, ez suptag

_VianK_ Lirai

Congratz Babangque :*

Arzenvald Lirai

noob 2nd place

Nice to see another year where none of my 10 votes made it in to the top 10

well guess im gonna have to do a foot reveal bc professionalbox is not first place

sotarks not first gj guys

Yazal thymue

sad :(

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

thanks

Nothing I voted for made it into the top 50 and like half of the top 50 is just Sotarks pp farm. These lists get more disappointing with each passing year. The only good map on the list, in my opinion, is Monstrata's Running in the 90's, the rest is pretty bad.

Lesbea huu

Same here, although there is a few maps in this top I can still agree on, so I can still believe in humanity a little bit. Some of them were featured in OWC, and I'm sure that's the only reason they gained popularity, otherwise we would have more PP galore. Spotlights on the other hand don't seem to have much influence.

Lmao if u call hibana bad then you are re...

huu BenyOsu

didnt really enjoy the map myself too much

not bad just wasnt anything i'd vote for

it's not best of 20xx anymore, it's community choice. it's literally a popularity contest. this attitude is why they don't call it best of 20xx anymore. relax and wait for MCA if you prefer a more "accurate" vote.

huu Ascendance

Oh I was just more disappointed in what the community picks as their favorites from 2018. I've always treated MCA as the proper vote for best map while community choice is just a complete dumpster fire.

Monstrata said he'll stream naked at the osu! event if Sotarks doesn't win

Name_Entry mantasu

Sotarks doesn't win but #3 and #6 xd

gg nathan

Ephemeral Uberzolik

Fixed this! Embeds are poopy.

15/50 entires in standard is Sotarks... just saying...

nice

first 3-time winner cool :D

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first 3-time winner cool :D