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3 Sep 2024
Monthly Beatmapping Contest: September 2024
Monthly Beatmapping Contest: September 2024
You've been waiting for this day for... approximately a month. Flex your mapping muscles in this month's contest!
The Monthly Beatmapping Contest (MBC) is exactly what it sounds like: a beatmapping contest that runs every month.
We alternate modes each month. For now, we're focused on osu!taiko and osu!catch. Stick around 'til next month for osu! and osu!mania.
Save your precious fingers from scrolling too much by skipping to any section below:
- Results for June's MBC
Previous contest results
osu!taiko results
Summary
| Placement | User | Beatmap | Badge prize | Title prize | Contest points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | uone | Frums - Jam with Pancake | Elite Mapper | +2 (6 total) | |
| Runner-up | -Kazuha | BlackY - Swing Edge | - | - | +1 (3 total) |
Top 10
uone has been a contest point collector recently. After winning Twin Trials, Vocaloid Mapping Contest 2, and June's MBC, he's earned his well-deserved status in the halls of our Elite Mappers!
Special thanks to arcpotato, meiqth, Yasuho, and SimplySynthy for judging!
osu!catch results
Summary
| Placement | User | Beatmap | Badge prize | Contest points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Xinnoh | Silentroom - NULCTRL EX | +2 (2 total) | |
| Runner-up | 2zz | antiPLUR - No One Is Around To Help | - | +1 (1 total) |
Top 10
Xinnoh received the Elite Mapper title long ago through another mapping contest, but he's back again to continue proving his osu!catch competence. Congrats on yet another success!
These results were determined by osu!catch's judging panel: Morusya, Unlucky_w, Greaper, and Chatie!
Game modes
This month's contest is open to osu!taiko and osu!catch mappers.
Timeline
- Beatmapping (3 weeks): Contest is announced and beatmappers create their entries.
- Screening (1.5 weeks): Entries are evaluated by experienced beatmappers. If there aren't many entries, this will be skipped in favour of a longer judging period.
- Judging (1.5 weeks): Top entries from screening are judged in detail by a different crew of experienced beatmappers.
- Rewards (~2 months from now): Winners are announced at the start of another MBC.
Beatmapping
Limitation
The monthly beatmapping contest would be pretty boring if not for limitations, a.k.a. special rules that make each month's contest unique.
If you're confused about how these work, ask for clarification in the comments, or send a message to Hivie (for osu!taiko) or Nelly (for osu!catch).
osu!taiko
As a professional mapper, you're familiar with the ins and outs of star rating (including how easily manipulated it can be). Now's your chance to put that knowledge to use.
This month's limitation: create an Inner Oni difficulty that's no more than 4.0 stars.
Creativity will be your best friend here. While it's effortless to make a map under 4.0 stars, your goal is to make something difficult and interesting while staying under the star rating restriction!
osu!catch
We're taking the middleground out of osu!catch.
This month's limitation: dashes are not allowed.
For extra clarity, this means the distance between each object must be walkable or a hyperdash. If you need to press the dash button for any objects that aren't outlined in red, you're doing it wrong.
Songs
Any song listed on osu!'s Featured Artist listing is eligible for this contest. Cutting songs is allowed too!
Rewards
The Monthly Beatmapping Contest rewards users with contest points based on their placements:
- Winner: 2 points
- Runner-up: 1 point
- Screening crew's #1 pick: 1 point
These numbers may be higher depending on how many submissions the contest receives. Check the wiki article for details.
Contest points reward users at certain thresholds:
- Profile badges are attainable at 2, 4, and 6 points each. The badges are tiered, meaning each new badge will replace the previous one!
- Elite Mapper user title is attainable at 6 points.
Additionally, a Mappers' Guild keychain is optionally rewarded to the winner of each month's contest. Its design is based on your beatmap!
Rules
- Submissions must follow the month's beatmapping limitation:
- osu!taiko: you must create an Inner Oni difficulty that's no more than 4 stars
- osu!catch: only walks and hyperdashes are allowed
- Submissions must be a single difficulty from one of the month's selected songs.
- Submissions must be in
.oszformat. - Submissions must NOT be uploaded to the osu! website until after the contest's results are finalised.
- Submissions must abide by the ranking criteria.
- Your submission must be solely made by you. Collaborations are not allowed for this contest!
Note that all submissions will be anonymised before they're reviewed by screeners/judges to avoid bias.
Why are you still here? Open the editor and do what you've been training your entire life for (...which is placing drums and/or fruit).
You have until October 1st to submit!
—pishifat, Hivie, Nelly
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