30 Nov 2020
A Labour of Love
by pishifat

A Labour of Love

by pishifat

Are you a mapper? A storyboarder? Or maybe a talented music producer? Show your love for an osu! community favorite in this multi-layered contest!

Everyone knows Kuba Oms - My Love. Put 100 osu! players in a room and you'd be safe betting that half of them could sing its chorus. The beatmap has nearly 70 million plays and is a source of nostalgia for generations of us.

We paired with Kuba Oms to set up a contest celebrating this timeless classic — a contest more ambitious than any we've hosted before!

Teams

Lots to go through. Let's keep it short.

This is a team-based contest. Users with different skillsets must collaborate to create a full beatmap experience, including:

Submit your team name and member list to this form. Once confirmed, your team will be documented on the A Labour of Love contest wiki page. Teams are limited to 5 members.

With teams being public, we'll be taking a different approach from usual contests: entries will NOT be anonymized.

In fact, we encourage you to tease your submission as it's being created! Feel free to announce your team publicly and show off your work. We're celebrating an osu! classic and we can't do that very well if everyone keeps their work hidden.

"I'm a super cool mapper/storyboarder, but I don't know anyone who can remix songs. What do I do?" There's likely a lot of people in this situation. We recommend anyone looking for teammates to post in the comments saying so. Forming a suitable team is half of the challenge for this contest!

Schedule

  • 3 months: Contest is open for submissions here until the end of February 2021. There's a lot of work going into this, so you might need the extra time.
  • 2 weeks: Submissions are judged by separate mapper and musician judging panels.
  • 2 weeks: Community voting is opened for top 5 overall submissions.

Once all of these are completed, the winners will be announced!

Prizes

No such thing as a contest without prizes! Unlike most contests however, there's a few different ways to earn prizes this time around.

Two groups will handle judging: mappers (including storyboarders!) and musicians. They'll be expected to evaluate the full package — the remixed song + beatmap + storyboard/video combo.

Each group has its own specialty of course, so we'll be rewarding prizes to the all members of the highest scoring team from each panel.

Mapper panel

  • Runner-up: 3 months of osu!supporter
  • Winner: 6 months of osu!supporter + Mappers' Pick profile badge

Mappers' Pick profile badge

Musician panel

  • Runner-up: 3 months of osu!supporter
  • Winner: 6 months of osu!supporter + Musicians' Pick profile badge

Musicians' Pick profile badge

The legend himself, Kuba Oms, will be a part of the Musician panel!

That's not all though! When panel results are in, we'll combine them to form the overall top 5 entries. These will be open for a community vote, meaning you can pick your favorite entry!

Once the vote is finalized, we'll combine panel scores with community vote scores to determine the overall winner (weighting for each category is undecided).

This winner will be announced during a live stream showcase of the finalists with commentary from some of the judges!

Overall prizes

  • Runner-up:
    • 6 months of osu!supporter
    • Overall runner-up profile badge
  • Winner:
    • 12 months of osu!supporter
    • Overall winner profile badge
    • Elite Mapper, Elite Storyboarder, and osu!mixer user titles
    • Submission bundled with new osu! downloads and fast-tracked to Ranked status

Overall runner-up profile badge

Overall winner profile badge

Also, in case one team wins both a specific panel and overall, the overall prizes will take priority!

Rules

Follow these rules if you don't want your hard work to be disqualified. We'll notify teams about potential disqualification early so they can fix any issues.

  • Submission must be a "full beatmap experience" including the following:
    • Remix of the song Kuba Oms - My Love
    • Beatmap spread following the ranking criteria
    • Storyboard or custom video
  • Submission must be in .osz format.
  • Beatmaps must be in osu! game mode only. Comparing beatmaps of different modes in a judging scenario is unfortunately not realistic.
  • Beatmaps should abide by the ranking criteria. While we can be forgiving for mistakes, submissions that could not be ranked without major changes will be questioned.
  • Team name and members must be confirmed through this form. If your country does not support Google forms, send pishifat a message. Teams are limited to 5 members.

Keep in mind that it is 100% acceptable to tease your submission publicly in this contest. You're making something cool, so you deserve to show it off!

Remix usage rights

Kuba Oms is a cool dude. We're super grateful that he's given osu! players the tools and permission to remix his song.

Because these remixes will involve his copyrighted work, there's a few things all remixers must keep in mind (sourced directly from Kuba Oms): The remixers can post their remixes on any and all social media, but they cannot sell, release, distribute, license or use the remixes for monetary gain without written consent from Kuba Oms.


And... that covers everything!

Head to the contest listing when you're ready to submit your entry. Also keep an eye on the wiki article to see what teams are participating!

We're looking forward to seeing the awesome stuff you come up with. Have fun!

—pishifat

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Damn this is really late, anyone wanna make an impromptu team? I do music.

And...what about ranking a team entry before the contest deadline (bss submission is not explicitly disallowed)

osu! of fighters (OOF)

Hi! I'm looking for a teammate! Someone who could maybe do a remix? I can do storyboarding. And I'm not the best in it, but mapping too! HyBerTop#0676

signed as pishifat

ah, so that's where he went

Producer here with a full team of mappers ready, but without any really knowledgeable storyboarder, if someone wants to join us please DM me xd

Oh! Something I forgot to ask. When will the livestream be held? I can't stay up long out of principal so I hope the livetream won't be held in the middle of the night in the UK.

what if remix is like 5+ minutes long?

Lusumi Lusumi

Like... do u still need a full spread? I assume u don't?

-Wind Lusumi

i think it's safe to assume that they only require a rankable spread. the ranking criteria states the minimum required spread depending on song length

Is it fine to do a do a remix of it with someoen else together / collab? and is it fine if I were to work on the song and also chart/map it?

gonna try my luck and remix this to fit a high star rating tech map byebye

community voting uh oh

community voting but the teams arent anonymized, thats one of the worst ideas ive seen in a long time

McEndu Ferretface

this gives BilliumMoto a big advantage

Someone PLEASE make a super intense remix to map 256bpm jumps to and make the top diff 8-9 star

[-PinK-] Purplegaze

hey :)

I can't wait for the nightcore remixes

music

pensive

seems like it would be really difficult to find a music producer and storyboarder for every single team

Maemi no Yume mahloola

it's just a matter of knowing where to look, because there are so many producers out there you have no idea. I'm a producer, but I'm already on a team. But if you really really want, just try to join a server full of producers, like FORM (artbyform.com) and try to connect. People there are generally pretty talented and kind. I hope they notice how awesome an opportunity like this is for a small producer, to have their names on a map that thousands of people will play and play and play.

Lusumi Maemi no Yume

Finding a storyboarder tho...

Lince Cosmico Maemi no Yume

cute message and cool info. thanks for sharing

I'm just a lonely mapper, I'm out.

I wish I worked well with teams. Good luck to every contestant though!

Interesting C:

"Are you a mapper?"
"osu! game mode only"
I guess people who map other modes are not called mappers then.

Lusumi Shima Rin

would personaly refer to anything other then std as charting lol

Artanime Shima Rin

Lets consider the definition of a map: A map is a display of space with at least two coordinates (e.g. a country map), giving us the direction. Since the other three gamemodes only present a point (taiko) or a line (mania, catch) where given objects are hit, I wouldn't consider calling it "mapping" for the other modes. A different word must be used then, what do you think about it?

h3oCharles Artanime

charting?

EimitMaggi999 Shima Rin

:(

TheInterester Shima Rin

theyre called mapperinos

Sebola Shima Rin

:(

Im interested in this project

any musician & storyboarder willing to join me?

how come theres no panel for the storyboarding?

Dollscythe Kibbleru

this

Community Voting

LMAO

chromw Akeruyri

sobs in rigged

are there any talented remixers that would like to join my team

Mlgb0ss chromw

im down

chromw Mlgb0ss

ok !

This is either gonna be good insane or bad insane i can only hope

Community voting because thats always a good idea and not annoymized so basicly anx popular mapper wins no matter the map quality k bro

"Put 100 osu! players in a room"

i really don't wanna know what would ever happen

Liiraye Sotarks

didnt you attend coe

qwt Sotarks

sexaul molestation, and cringe

Iced Out Sotarks

i hope they wouldn't create bad maps

i like ska Sotarks

do osu players shower

chromw Sotarks

ok socrates

Maze chromw

ok w*man

chromw Metal Wings

yes congrats!

Woah, so hype! Have fun, everyone! And good luck! :D

Yoooooo

eee

i wanna be someone’s man

dilf enjoyer Will Stetson

oy

chromw Will Stetson

ok :eyeroll:

qwt Will Stetson

same

i would join this but im dogshit at mapping so im prolly just gonna spectate

are we allowed to do everything ourselves? or at least have a 2 person mapping only collab? like what if i can storyboard map it and remix it? would i need a teammate to fall into the rules? can the teammate only do some mapping?
tldr; can i do this project by myself

I Join!

my love x no title remix

anyway someone hmu if u're interested in doing this itd be chill 🙄 ✋

chromw jas

i would collab but only if u want 🙄 ✋

ayo popularity contest check !!

are they making this to promote my love so it can be the most downloaded beatmap again? :thonk:

There are people w/ cool mapping and storyboard skills, but less musicians. VINXIS, i am waiting for you

VINXIS tadahitotsu

too busy

Man this is cool
I'd like to come out of sb/video hiatus
people needing that person hmu

check storyboard / video section on my profile for previous works

Dose that mean you're willing to join a team?

Аnd what prizes will be awarded to participants who did not take anything?

I hope this song’s remix mapset will be better than the original mapset. Good Luck!

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I hope this song’s remix mapset will be better than the original mapset. Good Luck!