27 May 2021
Skinning Contest: Results Out
by RockRoller

Skinning Contest: Results Out

by RockRoller

The ship full of skins is now back with your votes. Check out the results for our first-ever official skinning contest right here!

Around 2 months ago, a ship of skins with an entirely vacant cargo bay arrived at the dock, waiting to be loaded with the best of the best. After getting their palettes ready, 31 ship painters heard our call to arms and stood up for the competition with their pieces of artistic beauty.

Although having to choose only 3 of all those masterpieces might have led some of you to suffer from sea-sickness, in the end, a total of 15703 ballots were collected from 5914 unique voters as the ship sailed.

Our crewmates have finally finished counting all the votes and now is the time to announce the results. Here come the masterful creations, and their skinners extraordinaire reserving a spot on the podium. Let's have a look!

3rd Place - notMiku

Nikstrim managed to impress 1435 voters with this terrific piece of art named notMiku, achieving themselves a shiny bronze medal!

Accommodating a rather minimalistic and flat design, notMiku takes the idea of a futuristic design and implements it for osu! perfectly. Opting for plain colours and simple effects, the skin creates the perfect environment where players can not only focus on the gameplay but also take all its techno-charm in at the same time. This skin will make you feel like seeing the world through a visor with its sharp-edged interface elements and clean icons.

The mod icons look minimal, but are still information-rich and cleverly concatenate on the results screen, showing how much Nikstrim values attention to detail. The absence of the usual effects included in techno-themed skins, like massive glows and flashy effects, goes with the minimalistic approach superbly. Feeling the breeze of the future with notMiku will give you the feeling of a ride in a spaceship. The future is now!

The harmony of futuristic design and simplistic structures illustrated in notMiku rewards Nikstrim with the 3rd place profile badge! Great work, Nikstrim!

2nd Place - Minimalist 2.0

1849 voters couldn't help but cast their vote for this masterpiece called Minimalist 2.0, crafted by the very hands of Krizto, reserving them 2nd place on the podium!

As the name suggests, Minimalist 2.0 takes a better approach to the notion of minimalism in skinning by making good use of colouring and diagonal layouts. From the relaxation provided by the bubbles flying out of the menu to the refreshment taken in from the diagonal layouts and the novel approach to the mode select interface, the skin manages to keep the fancy elements properly rubbed in under its minimalistic structure.

Offering some needed contrast to the dark-grey ambiance, light mountain and accent colours differentiate the skin from its minimalist counterparts. Additionally, the skin utilizes a rare gimmick - a fully-animated bottom section - that most other skins handle poorly. Yet, Krizto's skillful hands have taken the hearts of many skinning enthusiasts with this very trick. If you're tired of playing with static skins, Minimalist 2.0 will most certainly satisfy your animation-thirsty needs!

Krizto's beloved masterpiece, Minimalist 2.0, earns them a shiny 2nd place profile badge inspired by the very artist's minimalistic touches! Good job, Krizto!

Winner - FREEDOM DiVE↓

Forged with love by the well-known osu! player BTMC and his team, FREEDOM DiVE↓ takes the lead with 3705 votes, outscoring the 2nd place by just over twice as much!

Rather than simplicity and minimalism as harboured by most other submissions, FREEDOM DiVE↓ features a vivid theme with colourful visual effects, carried out masterfully with aesthetic hand-drawn elements. Inspired by the song belonging to one of the most iconic beatmaps of all time, xi - FREEDOM DiVE, the skin revolves around the little animate orb greeting the user on every screen with its cute expressions.

Despite the extravagantly placed objects and richness in colour, team BTMC did a great job ensuring that none of the objects distract the player from clicking the circles. Appeasing the flamboyance-adorers with its well-designed artworks and animations, this skin guarantees you a pleasant and distraction-free gameplay session as well. Without a doubt, FREEDOM DiVE↓ is the perfect "osu! Champion approved" skin for those who like tagging along with the same skin as their favourite osu! player.

With his FREEDOM DiVE↓ entry, BTMC is awarded the trophy worthy of a champion, a profile badge featuring the mascot of the all-time popular FREEDOM DiVE song! Congratulations BTMC, well-deserved!


That said, it's time to pull up the anchor.

Be sure to check out the Skinning Contest results for a full listing of all 31 entries to see how well your favourites did or get a better picture of the voting.

All good things must come to an end. Well, here we are at the closure of the first-ever osu! skinning contest, hoping that both the contestants and those following with keen eyes had a pleasant time throughout! Even though we did our best to maintain such an environment, we eagerly await your feedback on matters we should improve for next time.

And off the ship departs!

—RockRoller

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well btmc won ..... family we eat

based?

to all you people hating on BTMC you do know that he didn't pay for the skin for this contest, he payed for a new skin for himself and the competition was coincidentally around the same time that Ed was looking to get a new skin for himself don't get mad because your stans didn't win, if you have nothing nice to add then don't add anything, his skin is nice and that's what this is, a skinning competition. Get over it.

cyperdark > not even top 3. What's wrong with you, ppl?

congrats to btmc and his team, for me its the only skin that beats yugen

onlyyysushiii tortuguitado

lol i can think of manyyyy skins to beat yugen

LETS GO FREEDOM DIVE

btmc

all these good skins and im still using rafis skin lol

I like the freedom dive skin I use it and l play well with it and have fun playing with it and that’s all that matters to me (:

Minimalist 2.0 is so beautiful, love it!

Sheesh the amount of hate and salt in these comments all because of 1st place winner.

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Sylveon Nepture [-Hikari-]

what do you expect?

Much love to:

Kazu (did the sound FX), JesusOmega (lead GFX), MyniMyxii & Tofu (various elements)

or "his team" lmao get hard carried ed.

Better than koi's skinning comp (not offense to koi in any way) this was professional to more structured but all insta voting for this skin as it got most the lime light from various osu streamers tho don't know it those that tested it streamed with it to all passed it around to it got more lime light Cyper dark's got 4th not too shocking many amazing entries that prob got passed off for usual "reasons" which is funny.

On top i forgot to vote xD i wouldn't have voted this skin cause i knew it would have won, my votes would have gone to 5kin, night05 and Prinz Heinrich. (maybe New Zealand or FocusNeo)

non skinner winning fucking LULW, maybe next time eh? LUL

any who, GG's to all submissions to hope the next skin contest when ever it happens don't get a landslide and heavy favoring submission to non skinner winning a badge! hopefully.

honorable mentions:
ZixStar, shocked it got so high up with it's retro look and very eye candy gameplay as many favor (insert cookiezi skin then edited that's used by most players top players)

Who Tao: pretty sick very Pog sad catch isn't skinned.

FreeMod is EZ: pretty cool, simple and better hitsounds then this skin (no offence to Kazu that did the audio work)

Loona: cool, very nice UI, spinner things and very clean.

Simplified Dark: amazing, amazing hitsounds + all modes skinned!

Ai Hayasaka: comes together well!

New Zealand: Downy don't miss.

FocusNeo: should have been higher, amazing extras.

Glassmorphism: so beautiful, flows amazing design wise and A++ hitsounds.

i was banned from skinship before i could submit anything

My kidney will die because of all of these salt in the comment section

osu drama poggers

taiko

i wish that the rules didnt suck

not deserved win

Zanzabar Reimu-

not really imo, did some people just vote on it because its ed? yeah definitely, but that dosent take away that its a good skin

🗿

To people defending BTMC that he worked hard on his skin, and he cared for the contest
https://i.ibb.co/t8NgBqm/image.png

I don't hate on him because he had money to pay graphic/audio designers, you shouldn't too. It's just so sad that he shitted on other contesters with this dc message - it feels quite bad. I didn't make the best skin as I am new to this (which bring me a lot of problems with some assets, as I didnt know shit and had to change/ask for permissions), some people made meme skins, so to be honest - there were a few real contestants that stood a chance - but it's all about fun.

Freedom Dive skin is good, I played with it myself for a day (not my type of skin tho, but its good) and skin itself shouldn't be insulted. It's the attitude that is the problem (also the reason to win the badge isn't bad - just straight out asking if you can hire professional designers to win you a prize, because you don't give a sh*t about contest itself comes out bad and could be played better xD).

Overall nice contest, skins are mostly beautiful artwork, it was fun learning with skinship discord and getting to know new people in the process. Got to give a clap for organizers, as they handled it as good as they were able too. All we can hope is the next contest gets rewritten rules so we can avoid drama in future contests. GGs to everyone participating :)

Zanzabar tearek_

dont blame ed for it, blame the contest, either way its mostly just for fun

Aregularhuman Zanzabar

why the hell would you blame the contest?
what were they gonna do, not let him join?

before the next osu drama who wants to confess they have a crush on me ‼

Lynx633 Reha

I do :)))))

me !!!

che SomeStrangeDude

succubus

che Reha

Im so sorry man

Reha che

its ok

It's sad to see that there is so much unnecessary drama around something that was meant as a fun contest. I think voicing your opinions is a great thing. Just make sure to take a deep breath and keep it respectful before posting. Don't contribute to drama and give feedback to the hosts so you can actually make a difference instead of making others miserable over a rhythm game. Talk about topic and not about people. Thank you.

I think the freedom dive skin deserved to win I just think its stupid that only one person got the badge

and the osu! drama started

taiko, catch and mania unrepresented ughhh

M4TTYN Tanomoshii Nekojou

as usual, it's sad their so good modes too.
but Night05, New Zealand (the all mode ver) Prinz Heinrich, ZixStar (if you can read it lmao nice retro skin vibes to looks so good for mania & catch) and 5kin which i used for some time lastly Simplified Dark are all there and beat this in terms of hitsounds, FocusNeo for the extra's it has alone is so good wish i voted LULW forgot all my votes would aided 0.12% or something to all that ain't get past 2% it's nuts.

I'M GONNA BE MAD IF THEY DON'T GIVE BADGES TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THE FREEDOM DiVE SKIN

Song name?! That song's a hecking banger!

Also, awesome skins, definitely giving some of them a try.

The skin is nice but I'm not too fond of the Freedom Dive skin being number 1.

BOoOOoOo BtMC wOn tHe CoNTesT BeCaUSe hE pOPUlaR

I really liked minimalist so I'm glad it got a spot.

people malding over who won is hilarious

Zanzabar [ETCH]

honestly, its kind of shitty that ed is getting hate because he just wanted to participate and make his own skin, while he didnt work on the skin directly, he did mold it into exactly what he wanted, he was the one that told everyone "hey this is what i want"

[ETCH] Zanzabar

yeah, its like saying that movie directors shouldn't get credit

Totally unexpected.

congrats to Krizto for winning!

congrats to all of you! well deserved!

I'm not surprised by the win at all since I liked the look of the skin ever since I saw someone announcing that it came out

lol people malding around btmc winning is so funny

boring looking skin tbh

Woah I didn't know BTMC could skin this good 🥳. Overall a really talented skinner with a well deserved win.

((BTMC))- FAMOUS OSU STREAMER BTW!!!! ᵃⁿᵈ ʰᶦˢ ᵗᵉᵃᵐ WINS THE OSU SKINNING CONTEST

Epic Xiangli Yao

ok

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