5 Feb 2021
Community Choice 2020: Results
by Ephemeral

Community Choice 2020: Results

by Ephemeral

You made your voices heard, and we now have both the Community's Favourite and the Mapper's Favourite of 2020 for each game mode! Check it out!

For those who might've missed the voting, the Community Choice polls are a yearly continuation of osu!'s fabled "best of" tradition, where everybody has their say in a giant mega poll to determine the most popular map of that particular year.

This year, we've decided to do something a little bit new and added an extra special category for each mode titled the Mapper's Favourite, which represents exactly what it says - the mapping community's pick for that year.

To have had your vote count towards this new category, you must have ranked at least one map throughout osu!'s decade-plus history (ranking any guest difficulties doesn't count). If you don't meet this criterion, your vote is still counted towards the Community Favourite like everybody else's, never fear.

As an extra note, you may be surprised just how few mappers there really are in comparison to the full-community voting numbers, and especially in the smaller game-modes. This is perfectly normal because getting a map ranked is an often complicated and lengthy process that few people really undertake to its conclusion. It does, however, mean that the voting will be a lot closer in those modes, as... well, you'll see.

Now, with that out of the way, onwards to this year's winners:

osu!

Crowned as the Community Favourite of 2020 for osu! is hypercyte's set for DADDY ! DADDY ! DO ! feat. Suzuki Airi (TV Size) with a whopping 1293 votes, nearly 400 more than the nearest competitor!

Sometimes we like to say "the voting was close" but in this case, it really wasn't - hypercyte and his comrades have done an outstanding job creating an indisputably popular set that turned some serious heads, a doubly impressive feat given that it was ranked as far back as April. Keeping people's attention for the better part of a year when over 10 maps are entering the game every day is no small feat!

Finalists:

Taking the top spot as our first ever Mapper's Favourite with 74 votes is the one and only stonking mega-collab masterpiece that is False Noise - Space Angel, hosted by MaestroSplinter!

A crowd favourite originally featured in the osu! Beatmapping World Championship 2020 from Team Argentina, Space Angel has been described by commentators as:

  • "an aspire map but it's rankable 😳😳" - MataSid
  • "Argentina went to space and came back with an angel" - Nozhomi
  • "This map is like a museum — a place devoted to display of objects of lasting interest." - Saxarok

Reflected in the mappers-only voting by a significant margin, Space Angel clearly ended up as a religious experience for the mapping community, and very much deserves its spot at the very top.

Due to the extremely collaborative nature of this set, we've also decided to make a one-off exception to our rule where only the host of the set typically receives the badge and prize, and have instead awarded it to all 12 mappers involved.

Finalists:

osu!taiko

Pairing dons and kats with the twin talents of two stupendously potent producers (one of whom happens to be a Virtual YouTuber), Calliope Mori - Excuse My Rudeness, but Could You Please RIP?<3 (t+pazolite Remix) hosted by Capu soared to snag the Community Favourite spot in osu!taiko for 2020 with 127 votes total.

Finalists:

Titled by its creator as a "high effort map", Iglooghost - Super Ink Burst very much lived up to Ulqui's intent with a considerable 36 vote total, earning the unique honour of becoming the titular Mapper's Favourite of 2020.

Finalists:

osu!catch

Dethroning Lord Fruitbowl (also known as Ascendance) for the first time since the Community Choice contests have taken place under their new name (which is basically four years running now), Rocma officially authored the Community Favourite of 2020 for osu!catch with Camellia feat. Nanahira - finorza, scoring 109 votes.

This is very fitting for Rocma, who went from being considered as the "most promising newcomer" in 2018's Mapper's Choice Awards only to rather explosively prove himself in 2020 proper, showcasing that even the highest-fiber titan can be eventually toppled by the choice arrangement of your favourite fruits performed by a skilled hand. It did, however, remain very close in votes well up to closing time.

If the comments for this map are anything to go off, it is a choice arrangement indeed!

Finalists:

You may be wondering why there are three banners up there. This must be a mistake, surely.

Nope. It happened.

The Mapper's Favourite of 2020 for osu!catch is an established three-way tie with Kaneko Chiharu - iLLness LiLin by Ascendance, lapix - Carry Me Away by Minato Yukina and Camellia feat. Nanahira - finorza by Rocma all scoring exactly 17 votes total.

We do say sometimes (read: always) that every vote counts, and nothing makes it quite as obvious as this kind of outcome does. Needless to say, we certainly didn't expect this.

In the spirit of applauding a job well done, all three of the mappers mentioned above will earn themselves the reward in full, including the badge.

Oh, and Rocma won twice, just in case it wasn't apparent. You should probably check out that beatmap, damn. Lord Fruitbowl (Ascendance) claims his fifth sort-of-consecutive victory as well, blessed be the high-fiber throne. osu!catch certainly gets up to some shenanigans, those lovable rascals.

Finalists:

osu!mania

Shamelessly petitioning on Twitter for support, Hydria's pleas did not fall on deaf ears as it turns out that people do indeed actually like his set for Camellia - We Could Get More Machinegun Psystyle! (And More Genre Switches) rather a lot, scoring a whopping 226 votes total... and winning the Community Favourite by exactly one vote.

Now, as he has so kindly promised, the single deciding vote earned means that he must create another 7* map during 2021 or else be condemned for all eternity to roam along with the other forsaken people on this planet who say one thing on the internet and then do something else instead.

Granted, it is unlikely to be a difficult feat for him given his considerable mapping pedigree, so look forward to it! And spare a moment of silence for poor IceDynamix, whose beatmap fell short by the thinnest margin we have ever had in osu!mania. On any vote. Across all the contests we've ever held. Goodness.

Finalists:

Scoring a well-earned spot as the Mapper's Favourite of 2020, Blocko's set for Frums - We Want To Run sprinted into 28 votes like nobody's business.

Given that it is a full 7K beatmap in a mode predominately occupied by 4K players, this makes it only all the more impressive. Noting that it is also a full spread catering to a huge, nuanced tiering of difficulty within osu!mania itself, it is easy to see where the admiration from the mapping scene might've come from. That and Blocko is something of a household name when it comes to these things.

An honourable mention goes to Abraxos, who tied himself for second twice with two different creations. If that's not talent, we don't know what is.

Finalists:


And with that, Community Choice 2020 is done and dusted!

What a year 2020 was, and we're at least satisfied that the crazy voting in the new Mapper's Favourite category has fit the bill perfectly.

You can view a spreadsheet containing the full voting results here, and you can view the top 50 entries in 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶 over at the contest listing for each mode.

We'll see you again around this time next year, so keep your eyes on the latest creations from our ever-talented catalogue of mappers!

—Ephemeral

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nice

So you telling me i wasnt the least voted one 🤔

Daddy, daddy, do
Hoshii nosa anata no subete ga ;3

man look at the taiko maps of the year and tell me to my face that variable ar alone for osu!standard wont be a game changer

I had favorited #1 and #10 during the year, even though I didn't have enough votes to vote for them :D

can we get a pogchamp in chat?

О даа въебали говна) 0)0)))

C204 was one spot away :(

already make a vote, but sad every year the voter getting low and the player getting high.
nice to you all want participate this choice.

MY FAVORITE MANIA MAP ALMOST MADE IT TO THE BEST MAP AAAAAAAAA

mappers choice is really great tho. didn't know many of these maps but they are bangers.
community choice on the other hand. eh. i find it funny how these maps are voted by the people but not supported by the people xd

Well at least Feryquitous songs comp came out in mapper's choice

why did i even expect anything from communiy choice lmao

If possible, allow any map that a person opens in the editor be part of their potential votes. Mappers get fucked because we might spend an hour or two modding a map and then never actually play it. There are so many more ranked maps I looked at than actually played lmao, would have loved to put votes into them.

mulraf Akeruyri

in the current state i don't think that's possible, because the game doesn't log what maps you go to in the editor from what i know. logging that data will need additional capacities and effort. i don't think they would do that 'just' to have that little added bonus, even though i don't think it's a bad suggestion or anything.

Akeruyri mulraf

True, but the web api could track what maps you've modded. So just list the maps you've modded that got ranked.

Nowaie Akeruyri

You were able to set plays during the voting phase along with being able to vote for those maps in the polls

Akeruyri Nowaie

I guess I coulda done that, but that means I woulda had to go back through everything I've looked at just to set a play on.

Hachikuji Mayoi Akeruyrideleted
Akeruyri Hachikuji Mayoi

I don't need to play certain things to tell if they are good or bad, you can see how well it plays with enough experience. On the off chance its something weird or different I will test play it in the editor just to make sure.

LOL

pekorap daddy daddy do and flying out to sky 💀💀💀💀💀 this community

ded24lol icekirby

true

The osu! community votes don't go your way because people that are higher ranked forget that they're not the majority of the playerbase. That's why the results are quite ass, usually being a pp map or a seasonal anime theme. Glad it's the latter.
Ngl tho daddy daddy do is fun

The only thing that saved this was the mapper's choice, but what do I know

jebac kurwy

uhh cool

PU
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Looks like the numbers are still decreasing every year...

hydria pls make more 7* ranked maps so that in the future when i improve more i can farm your maps

Hydria hamkajr

k

100 gecs - 1000 gecs by Genjuro with 14 votes.
Death Grips - Hacker by Genjuro with 13 votes.

thanks guys :D

STUPID HORSE, I JUST FELL OUT OF THE PORSCHE

Congrats to the winners!

jus got carried by argentina

Ну хоть в этом году не повторили ошибку, весь список дали) thanks osu!staff

OwO

Congrats hypercyte! Didn't even know you mapped this song but still glad you got the recognition. :3

Forgot to include vote count for Space Angels

meh

FINORZA POGGGGGGG

Not discrediting hypercyte because daddy daddy do is a good map for sure but how much of the vote do you think were 6 and 7 digits that thought it was the jump map

xAsuna Jushy

0, hypercyte set is a way more famous

Lanaxer xAsuna

Actually, i can see the majority of the votes being from 6/7 digits, not because they thought it was the unranked jump spam map, but because its a popular anime song.

Machinegun has more votes than people who can S it lmao

ooh i guess this year wasn't as disappointing as i thought

edit: nvm sotarks' 10 star map 2nd lmao

really daddy daddy do?really? anyways gg to argentina your map is a masterpiece

haha space angel go brrrrrr

Winning something 5 years in a row here has been pretty amazing! Congrats to Rocma for finally kicking my ass, he deserves it 100%. To everyone who voted for me or enjoys my maps, thank you for your support, even though I’m not as active as I used to be :)

Lord Fruitbowl 🙏

machine gun is biased change my mind

Hydria o_u

yeah

TV size maps ftw, only mapped by the most talented of mappers

space angel pog

Vindrue Hoshizora Rin

best map

so true

Unsurprising results as always

Grats to the winners though :3

Very happy about my Argentina boys!!! And hypercyte deserves it, even if it's not his best map to describe how well he does mapping.

cutie

i gotta say, mapper's fav for std is incredibly based

neat

ababa Hydria

can you pass me some tissues

ababa Hydria

man

Syadow- ababa

man

man

im just glad you finally implemented mappers pick - the results clearly show how our votes completely didnt matter in previous rounds so i hope you'll keep it for future years as well!

also can we have 20 more votes next time? thanks

Ephemeral Xnery

NO

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NO