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9 May 2021
Monthly Beatmapping Contests: May 2021
by pishifat, radar and Davvy

Monthly Beatmapping Contests: May 2021

by pishifat, radar and Davvy

Try your hand at this month's slow-slider-themed contest with a chance to become osu!'s next Elite Mapper!

May's Monthly Beatmapping Contest (MBC) includes opportunities for osu!, osu!taiko, and osu!mania mappers. Maybe next month we'll cover every mode at the same time, who knows?

Schedule

  • Beatmapping (2.5 weeks): Contests are announced at the start of the month and beatmappers create their entries.
  • Screening (1.5 weeks): Competitive entries are selected by experienced beatmappers for each mode.
  • Judging (1.5 weeks): Competitive entries are judged by different experienced beatmappers for each mode.
  • Rewards: Winners are announced and prizes are redeemed, including fancy profile badges and the legendary Elite Mapper title!

Expert mathematicians might notice that this whole schedule doesn't fit within a month. We announce results for each contest halfway through the following month, meaning May's contest results will be published mid-June.

Beatmapping

Limitation

We have two goals here at MBC headquarters: to create mapping contests every month and to ensure those contests aren't repetitive. It's a tough act to balance, which is why we have limitations — mapping restrictions that submissions need to follow, like "straight sliders only" or "circles cannot be used" or "you must map with your eyes closed". We unfortunately haven't tried that last one yet.

Below are the limitations for this month!

osu! MBC limitations:

  • Total slider velocity (SV) cannot be higher than 1.4

What's "total slider velocity"? It's not an official term, but we're talking about a map's base SV (set in the Timing tab of the editor) combined with any SV multipliers (green lines set in the F6 timing panel).

So for example:

  • If base SV is 1.4, SV multipliers can't be higher than 1x. (1.4 x 1 = 1.4 "total SV")
  • If base SV is 2.8, your multipliers can't be higher than 0.5x (2.8 x 0.5 = 1.4 "total SV").

Pretty straightforward, right? For those who'd rather not think, the default base SV is 1.4, so don't touch that and only use SV multipliers below 1x. You'll be fine.

osu!taiko MBC limitation:

  • All patterns on snaps faster than 1/2 must have an even number of notes.

If you're brave enough to map anything other than a swing song with this limitation, we'll give them an honorary 0.01 MBC points for the attempt.

osu!mania MBC limitation:

  • Long notes cannot be used.

Entries must be 4K or 7K maps, meaning that 5K, 6K, 8K, 9K, and 10K entries are excluded from this edition.

Songs

Each MBC provides beatmappers a choice between songs from one of osu!'s Featured Artists.

This month's artist is guitar savant Masahiro "Godspeed" Aoki. These three songs are available for mapping in the osu!, osu!taiko, and osu!mania contests:

Frostbite (188 BPM)

Beatmap template download: Short version (1:47) / Full version (3:49)

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The Game Changer (280 BPM)

Beatmap template download: Short version (2:24) / Full version (3:44)

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busy come, busy go (instrumental version) (270 BPM)

Beatmap template download: Short version (1:52)

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Rules

Breaking any of these rules will land you in MBC prison. Submissions must...

  • follow the month's beatmapping limitation for the contest's mode:
    • osu!: Total slider velocity cannot be higher than 1.4
    • osu!taiko: All patterns on snaps faster than 1/2 must have an even number of notes.
    • osu!mania: Long notes cannot be used.
  • be in .osz format. Including a background image and custom hitsounds is fine, but skin/storyboard/video content will not be considered.
  • be a single difficulty for one of the month's selected songs.
  • not be uploaded to the osu! website through the Beatmap Submission System (BSS). All contest submissions are anonymous during the screening/judging phases to avoid bias. DO NOT SHARE YOUR ENTRY!
  • be solely created by you. Collaborations are not allowed.
  • abide by the ranking criteria. While we can be forgiving for mistakes, submissions that could not be ranked without major changes will be disqualified.
  • be a 4K or a 7K entry for osu!mania.

Submission

You've got a bit under 3 weeks to prepare your masterpiece of a map! Once it's ready, head over to the relevant contest listing to submit:

Results for April's contest are coming up in a few weeks!

—pishifat, radar and Davvy

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TakJun

When is mania result come out????????????????????

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PouletFurtif

Any update about the results?

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PouletFurtif

For mania, what's the max difficulty mappers should aim for? I doubt all the judges will be able to play an ET 7k chart for example

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Noch Einen PouletFurtif

i could say 7* / Extra is fine for judges tho

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gothicwvlff

mania - long note = bms?

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MJH gothicwvlff

not necessarily since the style of placing notes differ so much

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gothicwvlff MJH

if youre a new mapper and have no idea what to do tho...

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Kay_Moon

cool

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Quade

so, mania is really NO longnotes yes?
I thought it's banning LN style but it actually no longnotes at all

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yunosama66

cool

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McEndu

and no key restriction for mania?
Then how to judge all of these when we got 4K, 5K, 6K, 7K, 9K and even 10K in the pile
PS. I don't think this is intended to be BMS'd

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Garalulu McEndu

now the news is updated, only 4K and 7K!

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spooky McEndu

Did you read it

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2fast

Great, can we ban normal notes next edition and only use longnotes for mania contest?

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bellapep

this sounds really fun! i cant wait to make a submission!

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Ilhamuharam

no ctb, sad ;_;

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Acquiescence

Nice

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quila

for standard, i think bpm should be factored into 'total SV'. otherwise frostbite (188 bpm) will have a max slider speed of around 2/3 that of the other two songs (270 and 280 bpm)

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[[[[[[ quila

it kidda even out with the high bpm=harder to map thing tho

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ConsumerOfBean quila

that's just a part of the song choice, honestly i much prefer it being as simple as it is

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telessenpai

Parece interessante, mas não consigo traduzir a pagina

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AchsanLovers

but how you gotta layer that guitar sound in mania without LN, the song choice is just not on point aa

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[Ping] AchsanLovers

That's how this is challenging you dummy :p

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AchsanLovers [Ping]

smh my head

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Xnery AchsanLovers

thats the point

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RiP46

Summary for osu!mania submission : jacks & dump, each submission for the same song may looks the same.

the game changer for this challenge will be the SV.

I've been excited for this month MBC but the limitation is a huge let down

Regardless, good luck to all participant.

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Krimek

Don't you dare limiting the SV on a "Godspeed" song.

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tatatat

Long notes cannot be used. 🥳

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Lott

MANIA POGCHAMP
Also, can I map one song for standard, and a different song for mania?

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[Ping] Lott

They are different submission page so I'd think that's fine

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Lott [Ping]

Thanks for the info!

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quila Lott

yes

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Lott quila

Thanks for the info!

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gothicwvlff

{insert comment supporting the mania limitation}
ok wheres the argument in the replies i want a participation trophy for starting it

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EimitMaggi999 gothicwvlff

don't know how you're able to judge that if you don't even (mainly) map or play mania

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fuwamoco

"If you're brave enough to map anything other than a swing song with this limitation, we'll give them an honorary 0.01 MBC points for the attempt." - yeah, what a funny joke.

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tatatat fuwamoco

I expect them to honor this promise of theirs. If not, whoever wrote it is a liar and should be deducted 0.01 MBC points.

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gothicwvlff fuwamoco

swing songs are barely even touched tbh

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Tanomoshii Nekojou

F for o!catch

Also, mania without LN? Thats... Hmmm

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McEndu Tanomoshii Nekojou

B. M. S.

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Vulkin

"[...] or "you must map with your eyes closed". We unfortunately haven't tried that last one yet."

Map Eyes half closed while having your eyes half closed

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Ixcors Vulkin

map *namirin - closing eyes with your eyes completely closed

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THAT_otaku

Havent entered an MBC since the first one last year and its a very pleasant surprise to see more modes able to enter! However, any reason there's no osu!catch listed here?

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Nao Tomori THAT_otaku

nobody in the catch community has organized it yet

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THAT_otaku Nao Tomori

ah yeah that would make sense, thanks

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OsuUser2

we did it

02jam is no more
:crab:

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[Ping] OsuUser2

it's BMS time baby

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Alchyr

links for the long ver templates are just mp3s and not templates

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Hydria

Boycotting this mania round.

"Long notes cannot be used." This is a joke, this isn't a limitation. And a controversial one at that.

In fact, here's some other, better limitations that I came up with within literally 10 min of seeing this post:

  • streams cannot be longer than 9 notes
  • note density must change every 2nd/3rd note
  • note snapping cannot be the same for more than 2 bars
  • note count between hands cannot be have a difference of more than 5%
  • one column is used dramatically less than the others

good luck next month i guess

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PouletFurtif Hydria

If this is to be a monthly contest with different constraints every time, what's wrong with having a rice constraint once? To me it looks like a constraint mamachacha would have.

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Noch Einen Hydria

i'd like you to see my entries again Hydria, since last time you did said it's "refreshing". actually there are some idea that makes this restriction as nothing (map it like usual), only different perspective imo (for now it's 7K)

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Garalulu Hydria

a bait to find out who the judges are

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-mint- Garalulu

SO TRUE BESTIE!

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lemonguy Hydria

Have you even listened to the songs given for the challenge? Good luck "following the melody" easily (and actually making an acceptable chart) without being able to use LNs for all of the sustained guitar notes. Sure, using no LNs may be trivial in genres like breakcore, but the songs chosen here are great for the challenge given, as it is significantly more difficult to do so.

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Hydria lemonguy

https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1457479#mania/2995381 🥱

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SilentWuffer Hydria

I agree. While maps without long notes are viable, it's a complete joke to have them as a restriction, especially when the best way to emphasize the guitar sounds are with long notes.

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DeviousPanda SilentWuffer

not really well versed in mania but isnt that the point? the limitations are usually meant to go against a core way that a song style is usually mapped (see silentroom tech mbc without sliders, or even this one where fast sliders would be great to emphasise guitar pitches)

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Pennek

F

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FAMoss

long notes cannot be used 🦀

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Garalulu FAMoss

🦀

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