1 Oct 2014
Monthly Beatmapping Contest #7
by Loctav

Monthly Beatmapping Contest #7

by Loctav

Announcing the 7th installment of the Monthly Beatmapping Contest - but this time across all game modes. Celebrating the anniversary of mode-specific BATs, we opened this Monthly Beatmapping Contest for osu!, Taiko, Catch the Beat and osu!mania.

We consequently opened the contest with four different brackets. You are allowed to submit your map in as many brackets as you wish, but you can only win once.

The song for this contest is Soleily - Renatus. You may listen to a short preview below:

What are the prizes?

  • 6 months of supporter for you or a friend!
  • 'Elite Mapper' forum title
  • Winning mapset will be bundled with the osu! game client download!

What are the rules?

  • You must map 3 difficulties in an appropriate spread - either ENH (easy, normal and hard) or NHI (normal, hard, insane). This counts for all 4 brackets.
  • In the osu!mania bracket, you may only submit difficulties with the same key amount.
  • Collaboration is allowed, but will only be registered under the name of the person who submitted the beatmap. Prizes for a winning mapset will only be given to the uploader.
  • Difficulty names must only be the name of the respective difficulty, and nothing else. No ztrot's Hard or anything comparable.
  • Maps submitted to the contest must not be submitted to the BSS until the contest has concluded.

Where can I enter?

Submit your creations under the following links:

The deadline for submission is the October 24th 2014. Make sure you submit early and be prepared - we won't be accepting late submissions at all this time!

—Loctav

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Waitting forr the nexxt "Monthly Storyboarder Contest" (:

Submissions are closed now. Thanks to everyone who participated! Maps are in the process of being judged now!

Tear karterfreak

Are results going to be announced separately for each mode? It would give winners more recognition when they aren't all lumped together, and it seems pointless to make CtB wait until Taiko is done being judged.

All of the results are likely going to be announced at the same time. I don't see how this will hurt anyone's recognition for winning any.

i heard.... yes
there will be 4 winner, 1 for each bracket....
but well... i think its good to announce the result for each mode soon or smthg...

cant wait to see the result....

Submissions are still open for about two days, so don't forget to submit!

Congratulations whoever won the ctb duel!

LordRaika Nwolf

make it two XD

Reizoko Cj for MBC #8 :v

Well I'm gonna find a great one!

CrushyGreenRen CrushyGreenRen

oops i think i cant

is it one winner per mode?

Yes

blaterwolfdeleted
karterfreak blaterwolf

Because if this is being bundled, it must fit under general ranking criteria, which requires a normal difficulty.

So who are the judges?

i am soo gunna not win but i do it for fun

karterfreak 1th Grader

That's what it's all about in the end!

1th Grader karterfreak

f*** can't do it

I will try the next one. I don't really like this song. Some Lapfox would be better. :3

Skystar pls~

We don't need to name it "Normal Hard Insane" for a taiko mapset, right ? We can name it "Futsuu Muzukashii Oni", right ? D:

karterfreak Kurosanyan

Considering those are the N/H/I difficulty names for taiko, you should name them like that.

Kurosanyan karterfreak

Actually, forcing the NHI mapset for taiko will make an awful spread since there's a huge gap between I-rated taiko and N-rated taiko. NHI feels like Kantan - Muzukashii - Oni to me.
I only have some 1/2 and the rating is 2,77 lol.

If you create a NHI map and your normal is above 2.00 stars, will this map still be ranked?

Am I allowed to remove the 91 bpm timing sections for taiko? They're messing with the SV and removing it doesn't really change anything since the original bpm is 182

Tidek eeezzzeee

The same question with osu!mania, because using BPM changes to control scroll speed is unrankable in ranking criteria. (of course I can use green lines to balance scroll speed, but still those red lines are unnecessary)

As long as the first red line is kept there I don't see an issue with it as even thought the bpm does change, it's just half the original bpm. The same result could be had with adding a green section to it and multiplying the inherited section's bpm by 2.0 but yeah, there's no issue.

i cant download the osz

use chrome

-Myhra BAKER BAKER

ok looks like it works last time i used chrom then it crash

-Myhra BAKER BAKER

i did

Looks nice to draw deathstreams in standard mode

Girls' Generation new album TTS "holler", someone please map <3
especially Adrenaline and Holler

Cerulean Veyron King_Midas

You can't request that here or anywhere, why not map it on your own? :c ... plus, SNSD is on my sht list.

I can't believe nobody commented on how bad of an idea it is to judge all mania keymodes together. 4K and 7K play like completely different games, with 4K focusing on pure finger speed and 7K being mainly about aesthetics and patterns. It makes as much sense as comparing a standard and a CtB map.

It was a choice between doing it the way we're doing it now, or limiting to a single key mode. It'd be absurd to run a contest for all modes, and then have 5 out of 8 (4k/5k/6k/7k/8k) be related to mania.

That said, I'm looking into ways we can do this better, but it's very likely it'd be limited to a single key mode in the future.

LordRaika karterfreak

imo, like osu!mania championship, they use 4k and 7k seperately... since they are the most popular mode.... and limiting to single key will cause some riot... either by 7k mapper or 4k mapper... XD
yeah, maybe its best or jst think of some way :
1.Make the mapper mapped 4k and 7k both...
2.choose either by 4/7k

both has the pros and cons, jst a little suggestion....
also i agree...
playing and mapping 4k & 7k is very different thou....

I'd love to enter in the CtB bracket but with the way things are right now IRL, there's high chances I won't be able to map everything before the deadline. :/
But this artist is great... bookmarked.
Good luck to everyone !

Song is too loud for the default hitsounds, I can only hear the finish one >_>

Pappy Cerulean Veyron

Alt + up :v

How do i get the song ;-;

BAKER BAKER FINGERLOCK

"Winning mapset will be bundled with the osu! game"
Does it means this time we will have 1 song with 12 map or 4 songs each one of them got 3 maps? O__o

karterfreak BAKER BAKER

Most likely the first option.

BAKER BAKER karterfreak

So the name of the beatmap creator will be "Various mappers" xD

Wow, first time have 4 modes, interested, and mania too >w< Mapping it :3

Cool song
Will enter for at least Taiko, and maybe more
I personally think everyone goes for FMO spread for Taiko right?

Senritsu Bara-

Actually i probably go with KFM c:

What difficulty names should be used for the mania bracket?

karterfreak Fullerene-

Same as the other modes, Easy / Normal / Hard or Normal / Hard / Insane

Fullerene- karterfreak

Just asking since most people in mania use EZ/NM/HD/MX/SC/SHD, IIDX names (beginner/normal/hyper/another/black another), or o2jam levels, so I wasn't sure which one to use. I assume for the other modes to use their respective difficulty names (kantan/futsuu/muzukashii/oni/inner oni for taiko, cup/salad/platter/rain/overdose) correct?

I decline this challenge, i'm busy and tired... (and baka)

Just waiting for the winners map to get unqualified for the reasons "gaps in spread" and "circle too close to spinner". Make my fucking year.

are SVs allowed?

karterfreak arviejhay

Can change the SV if you'd like, yes!

I feel like offset for first section should be around 952 :/

Can i allow to cut the song? (not actually cut it but example: the song is 4 minutes, start is 00:00:00 and end is 02:30:00)

Rilene arviejhaydeleted
arviejhay Rilene

aaaaaaa :(

so why the first red line is 91?!

Finally a mania contest, joining :3
Btw, is it going to be one multi-mode mapset? If yes, it seems unfair that only one of the mappers will be credited for the mapset being "theirs"...

Lach Tear

The way I understand it is the difficulty naming only applies for the submission to the contest. You can't submit a background, yet it's required for a submission on BSS to be considered. If you win (or even if you don't) I'm sure the BSS submission would be acceptable as xyz's Hard or asdf's Insane if they are actually made by someone else.

This may potentially not be the case for only one mapper being credited. We're seeing what we can do while the contest is running so that each mapper gets credit. This only applies for each mode however, not for collaboration submissions for a single mode.

Tear karterfreak

The only good solution seems to be 4 separate mapsets... Winners of previous contests are credited as mapset owner, it would be unfair if winners of this contest weren't :(

PyaKura Tear

I feel dem SVs ;_;

About the mapset, perhaps they'll just put a general nick for it and have the mappers' name in each diffname similarly to GDs
perhaps

Canceldeleted

The song is under a creative commons license, as is the image. There's nothing to claim copyright on.

Dolphin Nakagawa-Kanon

Yes. I second this.

Nwolf Nakagawa-Kanon

make one

Heterozygous_old Nakagawa-Kanon

@la cataline

I'm sure in this round more people will participate than previous full-set rounds. DnB is very easy to map.

"-No ztrot's Hard..."
Well, there you have it, ztrot. :\

Wooo. Time to start mapping again! \o\

Finally some legit good song...

I'm the taiko first!

eeem ... about Drain time, is full or part D:

the bg depressed me lmao CAN I CHANGE IT

karterfreak kakifly

The background can't be changed as it will be the background used with the bundled contest winners.

Oh cool I can actually make a mania MBC submission now. Too bad there's a 3 difficulty limit, I'd need at least 4 to make a spread that maps everything lol

oh waaaaa, hype *¬*

I don't know if this is a problem, but the file for download for standard is Taiko

karterfreak Aeonian Sonder

Can change the mode in song setup, there's no issues with that!

Edit: There's now a different base .osz for each mode so if you download the .osz from the associated mode's link, you'll get one that has your mode already set :D

All the links for submission are up except for standard.

why are contests always 3 difficulty
this song practically begs for a 4, if not 5 difficulty set

edit: at the very least though, you introduced me to a pretty fantastic new artist (seriously go check out more of his music, great stuff)

What happened to MBC #6? :o

Why are the songs for MBC so god damn long? The optimal song length for any rhythm game is around 2min so why would you go out of the way to do 3~4min songs? :( If you're gonna have long songs you could at least be generous enough to find songs that are marathon length approvable. Although I realize that finding good songs to license or whatever isn't the easiest task in there world, but I'd like to see some improvement on this aspect.

Fullerene- Dolphin

Funny thing, this song is perfect for mania since there's 1/4 hi-hats which can be layered as streams.

Zare Fullerene-

Welcome to DnB

Sey Dolphin

Agreed. The song is repetitive as hell which makes it very boring to map. If there was some more variety at least... I think in CTB we only have one or two mappers who want to participate here by now. That's not a big surprise when the song is extremely monotone and long (Not everyone sits on the computer and maps all day long by the way).

69653863 Dolphin

they cut good songs and they keep repetitive songs
like pink nightmares and rooftop sonic thing
and this

PyaKura Dolphin

I agree these should be shorter, but when you look at osu!std it's not hard to find long songs, meaning they're used to map those, and the previous MBC are based on this assumption.

Probably

Dolphin PyaKura

Uh, considering the immense amount of TV Size mapped I kinda disagree with what you said. The people who map long songs are just motivated people.

Kin Dolphin

we love long thing

Damnae Kin

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

oh fuck here we go

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oh fuck here we go